About this tour
Eastern Wilson County grew up along a road that predates Texas independence by decades. The Old Chihuahua Road once carried Mexican ox-carts from the interior all the way to the Gulf Coast at Indianola, and the string of settlements it left behind — La Vernia, Sutherland Springs, Stockdale — each grew a distinct identity along the Cibolo Creek watershed. This driving loop follows that history from a stage-stop-turned-town at La Vernia, past a 19th-century mineral-water health resort founded by an Alamo courier, to Stockdale, named for the last governor to serve the Confederate state of Texas. It's a quieter corner of the San Antonio metro, but one where the old road is still, in places, literally the town's Main Street.