Blucher Nature Park — Attraction in Corpus Christi

The Blucher Nature Park, tucked right in behind the downtown of Corpus Christi, is a gorgeously designed and landscaped masterpiece of nature right within the city.

I encourage you to let it be a relatively electronics-free zone. See if you can put all your attention on nature while you are in the park - and forgo any typical habits of checking your email or listening to music or podcasts or talking on the phone.

If you are walking with a friend with whom your habit is to chat as you walk, see if you can instead throw all your attention on nature while you are walking - and try to restrain your comments to things like

“Did you hear that bird?” or

”Hey, look at this!”

My deep gratitude to whatever group poured so much love and attention into this park.

The one change I would suggest is to eliminate the oppressive middle-class ordinance about no smoking in the park. If there had been more poor or working-class people on the team that created the park, I doubt this particular rule would have been included.

Please change it to,

“Please dispose of any cigarette butts in the blue barrels you will find spaced within the park.”

Those blue barrels are almost an intrusion in the park, but they do the job. I have seen only a few tiny instances of litter in the park - and disposed of those myself.

The park is right next to the stunning and wonderful La Retama Central Library. I encouraged patrons of the library to take frequent breaks from their mental work to return to the more nurturing...

I came here alone to maybe walk the trails and get some exercise. I was afraid. It was very overgrown. No one has mowed this place in a while. There were some homeless men there. That might have been OK if I wasn't a single female by myself in an overgrown wilderness. I was kind of afraid because all of the unsloved mystery TV shows came to my mind, so I just got out of there fast. I was kind of hoping to see some trails, but I didn't see any near the entrance. I don't know if there are any farther back. I was kind of afraid to go any further than I did. I talked to my coworker, who said it used to be a really nice park. I'm not sure what happened. Hopefully, they can get the vegetation under control and landscaped. I wouldn't come here as a single female. Maybe come with a group of people or something. It just didn't feel safe being a single female...

Blucher Park is a very peaceful place near the main library downtown. There are plenty of songbirds and butterflys in the spring and a variety of trees with marked, peaceful paths. The park isn't particularly large but there is room to explore and take a break from the daily grind. We visit it regularly, and even took some of our maternity photo sets there.

There are some obvious urban infrastructure areas in the park, culverts and drainage pipes, and things of that nature - there will occasionally be a homeless person taking advantage of the cover and shade, but that has never...