Exploring Wilderness Cave in San Antonio, Texas.

Wilderness Cave is one of San Antonio’s lesser known caves. This cave is located on the Canyon Springs Golf Club behind 1418 Pinnacle Falls. Hardly anyone knows about this cave which is because Wilderness Cave is hidden behind a plethora of trees and shrubbery in the wilderness. 

Hardly has ever explored this cave. Nor have there been images uploaded to the internet to be publicly made. No images of Wilderness Cave are available publicly anywhere online or offline.

The only person known to have explored Wilderness Cave is a surveyor named Pape Dawson. He left an embedded iron rod with a yellow cap marked “Pape Dawson” on the northeast corner of the cave while surveying land for the future Canyon Springs Golf Club on the date of April 5, 2002. The cave had been previously set aside in a 3.5 cave preserve. (Ref: Bexar County Land Records, Volume 9645, Page 1089)

Wilderness Cave was located in a 10 acre tract converted to Parker-Kerbey, Ltd originally. Although International Bank of Commerce was the original owner of Wilderness Cave. International Bank of Commerce sold Wilderness Cave on a transfer of lien to HPK Ventures for $8,000,000 dollars on the date of October 24, 2002. (Ref: Bexar County Land Records, Document Number 20030150194)

What’s interesting about Wilderness Cave is that this cave was foreclosed on. HPK Ventures had been delinquent on their taxes. So an Order of Sale by sheriff’s deed was issued out by the 285th Judicial District Court of Bexar County after the land was seized on the date of December 19, 2008. Wilderness Cave was put up for sale on December 3, 2010 for a price of $55,442.09 by bid. (Ref: Bexar County Land Records, Document Number 20110096683)

Advertisements for Wilderness Cave began on November 22, 2010 as mandated by Order of Sale. The bid was posted in the Commercial Recorder newspaper on the date of December 3, 2010. The bid was held at the County Bexar Court House door.  The Order of Sale gave public notice of the time and place of sale by an advertisement in the English language, published once a week for three consecutive weeks preceding such sale, beginning on December 03, 2010 in the Commercial Recorder, a newspaper published in the County of Bexar. The date to submit occurring final bids was January 4, 2011. The land was sold on a certain judgment and Decree of Sale, rendered in Cause No. 2008TA101417. (Ref: Bexar County Land Records, Document Number 20110096683)

 

Wilderness Cave was eventually sold to Ron Carillo for a price of $27,700 dollars on on the date of August 7, 2012. He was the person who won the bid.

Ron Carillo sold Wilderness Cave to Griselda Carrillo Stevenson on a general warranty deed on the date of December 10, 2018. Griselda Carrillo Stevenson currently owns Wilderness Cave. (Ref: Bexar County Land Records, Document Number 20180245758)

 

Wilderness Cave is located behind 1418 Pinnacle Falls, San Antonio, Texas, US 78258.