Woodland Hills Cave is one of San Antonio’s lesser known caves that is well-remembered but not as widely known. This news article will explain what Woodland Hills Cave is.
Woodland Hills Cave is a city-owned cave located at the bottom of a 40 foot long lined brick well which is owned by the City of San Antonio and San Antonio River Authority (SARA). Much of the visible portion of this cave is full of water. This cave is 40 feet deep of water.
The City of San Antonio owns this tract as a natural area. The City of San Antonio purchased the Woodland Hills Cave for water protection which also has known federally listed endangered species. (Ref: https://www.cpsenergy.com/content/dam/corporate/en/Documents/Infrastructure/ScenicLoop/Attachment%201%20-%20Environmental%20Assessment-Complete.pdf)
History of Woodland Hills Cave dates back to the early 20th century during the 1900s. Possibly even earlier than the 1900s too.
Woodland Hills Cave was discovered by workers from the City of San Antonio while clearing out land in the Woodland Hills subdivision to erect a brick well around the year of 1900. Workers had discovered this cave had been full of water. So a pump room was necessary to control the flow of water. So the City of San Antonio installed a pump room dug at the bottom of this brick well for pumping water when the well was hand dug around 1900. However Woodland Hills Cave was abandoned when a drilled well was constructed 20 feet away from the 1900 well around 1940. The new well pumped water from the same pool as the 1900 well did. Although the cave was last visited by Carl Clayton and Patrick White in the early 1950s, the cave has never been explored and remains unexplored. (Ref: https://www.texasspeleologicalsurvey.org/PDF/TSS_Volume1/TSS%201(4)%20compressed.pdf)
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