Extra bragging rights for San Antonio as a fascinating place to dwell: The town has the No. 6 finest park system in Texas this 12 months, a brand new report says.
The Belief for Public Land’s 2025 ParkScore report yearly charges park programs in 100 of the biggest American cities primarily based on accessibility, fairness, acreage, funding, and facilities.
Taking the highest spot nationwide is Washington, D.C., for one more consecutive 12 months. Rounding out the highest 5 cities with the perfect park programs are Irvine, California (No. 2); Minneapolis, Minnesota (No. 3); Cincinnati, Ohio (No. 4); and St. Paul, Minnesota (No. 5).
San Antonio ranked 57th nationally after rating No. 53 final 12 months, and 57th in 2023.
The town has a formidable quantity of land devoted to parks, totaling 28,842 acres, or about 9.1 p.c of the entire metropolis space. The town invests $140 per resident on its acclaimed park system, in comparison with the nationwide median $133 per resident.
In keeping with Belief for Public Land’s web site, San Antonio has 356 parks for locals and guests to take pleasure in.
San Antonio has many parks with playgrounds for households.San Antonio Parks and Recreation Division/Fb
“Parks carry folks collectively and ship huge bodily and psychological well being advantages for guests,” stated Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser, the president and CEO of Belief for Public Land. “At a time when a lot in our nation appears fractured or polarized, parks stands out as the final ideology-free zones, the place everybody can come collectively, kind significant relationships, and luxuriate in just a few hours of peace and rest.”
The town nonetheless has room for enchancment in the case of accessibility, based on the report. Lower than half of all San Antonians (47 p.c) dwell inside a half mile of a park. Nationally, 76 p.c of People within the 100 most populous cities dwell inside a 10-minute stroll of a park on common.
Elsewhere in TexasDallas-Fort Price cities dominated Parkscore’s listing of the perfect park programs in Texas for 2025. Plano, a Dallas suburb, ranked No. 1 statewide and seventeenth nationally this 12 months, adopted by Dallas in second place and thirty fourth nationally. Touchdown within the third and fourth spots statewide are Frisco (No. 37 nationally) and Arlington (No. 46).
Austin rounded out the statewide high 5 and ranked 54th nationally.
This is how different Texas parks ranked nationally in 2025:
No. 65 – El PasoNo. 66 – HoustonNo. 67 – GarlandNo. 72 – Fort WorthNo. 76 – LaredoNo. 77 – Corpus ChristiNo. 94 – LubbockNo. 99 – Irving
