About this tour
Fort Sam Houston has been San Antonio's military heart since 1876, and this drive covers its whole strange, layered history in one loop: the 19th-century stone Quadrangle that briefly held the Apache leader Geronimo prisoner, the officers' housing row where career soldiers lived out their careers, the field where the Army's earliest air squadrons trained, and the national cemetery where generations of them are buried. Along the way you'll pass a Belgian astronomy expedition's forgotten campsite and a sobering WWII detention chapter most visitors never hear about. It's the whole story of why San Antonio calls itself 'Military City USA,' told from the post where that story started.