Camden Street Riverwalk Bridge

I love this river walk expansion. Great for taking the pets for a nice walk. What I like is the accessibility to the river. You can even get on the river taxi! I love the art exhibition you can sit there and talk about it in amazement. It’s really great if your exercise or running. It also has exits to enter other places such as SAMA (San Antonio Museum of Art) and VFW. They have different plants and birds that often come by. I really want to come and experience bat loco in the summer where you can watch bats fly under the bridge.

I love interesting bridges and even though this is your average bridge, Donald Lipski’s F.I.S.H. Out of Water piece turns it into a surreal experience. You have to see it at night to appreciate it. It’s close to some hipster apartments and bars and such so there are always people walking by and police patrol the river too so it feels safe.

This place is awesome! Love walking the Riverwalk and coming across this fun find :) At one point one of these fishy’s was on display at the San Antonio Museum of Arts (which isn’t a far walk further) Not sure if the little guy is still there or not. Maybe he has made his way back again hehe If you haven’t made the stroll to see this awesome public art display underneath the freeway, you really must!

Cute little stroll in the city. Check out the fish sculpture and small water fall along the walk.

The FISH and the face in the grotto are *awesome*. Even better though.. The bats! Real live Mexican Freetails, and sizeable colony of them.
Especially at the height of summer, when baby bats have just been born, a seemingly endless cloud of bats starts to emerge from the bones of the bridge at sunset, and it’s a beautiful sight. Only slightly fewer bats than at the Congress St Bridge in Austin, but significantly fewer spectators, and wonderfully unobstructed views.
There are plenty of spaces to cop a squat in the grass or on the landscaping ledges, but the luckiest seat in the house seems to be on a river taxi — I’ve often seen them pause for the bat flight and caught snippets of the drivers tour-​guiding the event to the passengers.. very cool that the taxi operators are educated at all about the bats!

You definitely need to visit this spot at night. We drove past this spot during the day on the double decker bus and it definitely wasn’t the same. Bottom line is it’s a cool thing to see and it’s free. Parking across the street in ample and free. It’s cool that it’s kinda a two for one. The grotto is just down from the bridge with the fish. I guess the water taxis go down that far but you have to pay extra. We just drove as it was two miles from our hotel. Glad we went to see it.

I should admit at the outset that I’m a longtime fan of the San Antonio Riverwalk, so wandering what to me remains the «new» section brought me joy from the start. Okay, now to focus on this particular area…
I thoroughly enjoyed the art installations beside and above the path and the intermittent lights in the river itself, leading to the rejuvenation-​in-​progress Pearl Brewery area where there are dams, small waterfalls, and pretty pathways around (and a block beyond) a wide turnaround for the river taxis. Two of the many art installations that intrigued me in particular are the «F.I.S.H.» illuminated sunfish below the Camden Street Bridge and the faux cavern cutaway — be sure to look up diagonally as you pass the cascading series of waterfalls within the cavern… — about two ‘blocks’ further down the path. This area is also excellent for its connection to the San Antonio Museum of Art — beware that one part of the path dead ends at the museum with no signage in advance — and the insight you get into the melding of old and new with the development along this stretch of river (complete with historic markers and old, new, and repurposed buildings on all sides). I look forward to wandering this stretch to and from the central area of the Riverwalk again!

Absolutely worth travelling.
The river walk boat tour (USD 8.25) is really great and comfortable. Many restaurants and hotels (at least 4 stars) around the sides of the river. Our tour is in the afternoon, better than it in the morning. We waited for the tour for an hour.

I love this stretch of the Riverwalk. It’s pretty during the day. But somehow extra special at night. I like seeing the FISH all lit up. I also enjoy people’s reactions when I bring them up to street level so that the can enter the mouth at the Grotto. The face near the waterfall is also more sinister looking at night. Love it!
I haven’t lived in San Antonio long enough to be bored of this area of the Riverwalk yet. It’s always a must see when I bring my guests to the Pearl or the Luxury. Because I come at different times of day and with different groups, I always feel like I’m seeing it for the 1^st time.
I wonder how long it would take me to be bored with coming here? Guess I’ll just keep coming until I find out. Pretty sure it’ll be awhile ;)

Donald Lipski’s F.I.S.H Out of Water, is a very cool display of public art located under the I-​35 overpass at Camden Street.
The exhibit consists of 25, seven foot long sunfish that are swimming across and over the river. The attention to detail on the fish is amazing.
The best time to see this exhibit is after dusk when the fish are illuminated. They reall pop then.
There is a 26^th fish (F.I.S.H Out of Water #2) at SAMA. This allows you to get a real closeup view, to appreciate the size and detail that was put into each one.
If you are visiting San Antonio or entertaining visitors this is a cool place to see.

This one of my favorite portions of the Riverwalk. Everywhere you turn you will find one wonderful surprise after another. Of course, I am referring to the stretch of riverwalk that begins by one end of Pearl past the fishies under the bridge up to the pedestrian bridge.
I love the hidden mouth spewing water and the Grotto by Carlos Cortés, the lovely waterfall with the arrangement of shrubbery directly under the waterfall, and I especially love the hanging fish. It’s nice to stand on the pedestrian bridge and admire the scenery, being the riverwalk, the Pearl Brewery, and all of the nice attention to detail along the trails and the plant life. Always such a relaxing walk/​run/​bike/​river ride along this reach :)

This art installation by Philadelphi artist, Donald Lipski is an awesome addition to the Riverwalk! The fish seem to float above the river, and even light up at night!
If you look carefully, you can see some of the famous freetail bats that roost up there under the bridge.
It’s a great place to hang out and have a sack lunch, or to cruise up and down the Museum Reach of the Riverwalk!
I’d be careful along there if the wind gets gusting up too much. Last time San Antonio had a big windstorm, a fish or two came tumbling down.