Landa Park (New Braunfels)

Subject: Landa Park (New Braunfels) Tue 10 Jul 2007, 6:54 pm

Has anyone else been to Landa Park?

Our family traveled there for a couple of summer vacations during the early 1970s and absolutely loved the place (well, except for the colony of daddy-long-legs that hung out on the ceiling of the cabin porch). My memories from those times are not very detailed but mostly are good: the coldness of the spring-fed swimming pool; the tall green and the water-filled red slides which fed into the Comal River; the restaurant called 'Beer Bottle World' which had windows filled with many shades of colored glass (I think); the towering, empty (?) mill guarding the entrance as one entered the park; the shade trees and the sounds of water ever flowing.

Bad: when my baby brother (then about two years old) vanished from the back of the paddle-boat that my next-younger brother and I were pedaling, only to appear as a flaxen mass of hair extending upward beneath the calm surface of the Comal. I'd recently broken my arm, but I jumped in to rescue him .... cast and all. My screams broke the quiet reverence and golfers playing on a neighboring course kindly came running to assist. There was quite a commotion, but little brother and all were well .... all but my soggy cast, that is (it previously had been protected while swimming by a plastic bag). You owe me, J J!

Has anyone visited Landa Park (or, 'Camp Landa,' as we referred to it) in more recent years? Are the slides still there at the riverside?

There is a nice article about the park's history in the Handbook of Texas Online -- including a reference to the short lived, Spanish mission which was located in the vicinity during the eighteenth century:

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/LL/xvl1.html

Thanks!

Holly
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Wrangler Joined : 01 Jul 2007 Posts : 30

Our family went down for the Wurstfest in New Braunfels one year in the 1980's. It's a lovely town. We missed the water fun but had a great time. The food was fabulous. We combined this with a trip to San Antonio.

Anne

Subject: Re: Landa Park (New Braunfels) Sat 14 Jul 2007, 7:15 pm

Anne ... I never have attended the Wurstfest but long have wanted to. A Greman-fest is also held at Muenster in Cooke County during the spring, but I missed it once again this year. Sad

Lots to do and lots to see!

Holly
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves