Texas Hill Country Trails Alliance

Lisa Nye-Salladin and Adam Salladin have owned Hill Country Bicycle Works in Kerrville and Fredericksburg for over 30 years. Upon moving to Kerrville in 1995 they observed a lack of trails in the area and focused on a mountain bike trail at Singing Wind Park. Since it was a public park, Lisa applied and was appointed to the Kerrville Parks and Recreation Advisory Board in 1999. She has served on and off that Advisory Board for a total of 20 years with one of many goals being a master plan and trail system for Singing Wind Park. With so many priority projects among the parks department, Singing Wind Park kept waiting it’s turn.  

In the meantime, Lisa, Adam, and David Appleton have worked first through the Texas Parks and Wildlife then through the Kerrville Parks Department to design, build and maintain the hand built singletrack trails at Kerrville Schreiner Park, taking the trail system from 4 miles to now almost 15 miles of multiuse, multidirectional natural surface trails. This was an all-volunteer effort and the trails at KSP still maintain an active list of approximately 20 volunteers for yearly maintenance and improvements headed by these three to assist the Parks Department.  KSP Trail Map

James Manchester, an avid trail rider and local businessman, has been riding the bootlegged trails currently at Singing Wind Park. The trails are poorly designed, unsustainable and mostly unsafe for new and intermediate riders, but he does what he can to keep the trails cleared. It will take a professional trail builder that is experienced in machine-built trails to create fun, safe and sustainable jump lines and flow trails and to execute the Big Loop Trail design 1-8. 

Lisa, Adam, David and James, the principals of the Texas Hill Country Trails Alliance, have prioritized for fundraising the mountain bike trail system at Singing Wind Park, bringing this underused and underdeveloped park to the front of the line. They are working in partnership with the Kerrville Parks and Recreation Department to fund public parks. Donations received will go through the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Kerrville Parks and Recreation Foundation Fund. Ongoing maintenance for the bike trails will be a mostly volunteer trail user effort in partnership with the City of Kerrville. 

Main principles

The volunteers making up the Texas Hill Country Trails Alliance are dedicated to creating opportunities for all trail user groups to access the outdoors. Trails enhance a community and provide safe and fun venues for kids of all ages to improve their health and well being.

The Texas Hill Country Trails Alliance is a registered 501(c)3 non profit organization and your donation is fully tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. No goods or services will be provided in exchange for this contribution.

The mission of the Texas Hill Country Trails Alliance is to advocate and fundraise for and build and maintain multi-purpose, natural surface sustainable trails throughout the hill country region. The organization will focus on all trail user groups including but not limited to mountain bikes, adaptive groups, runners, hikers, and walkers to promote shared use trails through thoughtful design. 

The Texas Hill Country Trails Alliance is working in partnership with the Kerrville Parks and Recreation Department to fund public parks. Donations received will go through the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Kerrville Parks and Recreation Foundation Fund.

It is important to note that every initiative advocated by the Alliance for the City of Kerrville is a fundamental component of the official Kerrville Parks and Recreation Regional Trail Strategy, over which the City maintains absolute oversight and final discretionary authority.