Headwater Trails
There are three types of HW trails, mainly
1). HOA trails
In the HW main office you'll find a large table map that you can walk around that shows all of the HOA trails, how-be-it some of the trails are future trails.
Also, both by the large map in back of the office and by the bathrooms in the office you'll see paper maps called "The View" that contains all of the HOA trails.
2). Colored trails
Two guys (not me) who were pioneers (some of the 1st families in HW) have mountain bikes and made a trail around the perimeter of all of HW from the get-go. As HW continued to expand into new phases their original trail was destroyed in many places, so they made new trails through the woods and colored them different colors with spray paint. The cool thing is these guys were green conscious as they didn't destroy the natural habitats in that they followed natural wildlife trails and went around trees (not cutting any down) so took paths of least resistance. Even though these colored trails were built for mountain bikes they didn't care if people walked them also. I've walked all these trails since early 2020 and have only met mountain bikers on them six times in four years, which was no problem as they were courteous, and I just stepped off the path letting them though.
The current-colored trails include blue, orange, upper red, lower red, upper green, and lower green. You'll see the trails marked with these colors often enough to stay on the trails.
3). Pre-Headwaters Ranch jeep roads some of which became construction roads to build Headwater phases. Also, Canyonwood existed before Headwaters so they have trails between us although all are now HW common space.
Examples include the construction road built for the last phase (phase 3) that goes from near the entrance of HW paralleling 270 until it goes north to phase 3, what we call the River Trail (even though it is Roy Branch Creek) to the StageCoach Bridge, what we call the East/West trail (an old ranch road originally with old ranch buildings along it), and the Canyonwood Trail that dead ends at a gate that takes you into Canyonwood common space.
1). HOA trails
In the HW main office you'll find a large table map that you can walk around that shows all of the HOA trails, how-be-it some of the trails are future trails.
Also, both by the large map in back of the office and by the bathrooms in the office you'll see paper maps called "The View" that contains all of the HOA trails.
2). Colored trails
Two guys (not me) who were pioneers (some of the 1st families in HW) have mountain bikes and made a trail around the perimeter of all of HW from the get-go. As HW continued to expand into new phases their original trail was destroyed in many places, so they made new trails through the woods and colored them different colors with spray paint. The cool thing is these guys were green conscious as they didn't destroy the natural habitats in that they followed natural wildlife trails and went around trees (not cutting any down) so took paths of least resistance. Even though these colored trails were built for mountain bikes they didn't care if people walked them also. I've walked all these trails since early 2020 and have only met mountain bikers on them six times in four years, which was no problem as they were courteous, and I just stepped off the path letting them though.
The current-colored trails include blue, orange, upper red, lower red, upper green, and lower green. You'll see the trails marked with these colors often enough to stay on the trails.
3). Pre-Headwaters Ranch jeep roads some of which became construction roads to build Headwater phases. Also, Canyonwood existed before Headwaters so they have trails between us although all are now HW common space.
Examples include the construction road built for the last phase (phase 3) that goes from near the entrance of HW paralleling 270 until it goes north to phase 3, what we call the River Trail (even though it is Roy Branch Creek) to the StageCoach Bridge, what we call the East/West trail (an old ranch road originally with old ranch buildings along it), and the Canyonwood Trail that dead ends at a gate that takes you into Canyonwood common space.
The key is what everyone ends up doing is combining all these trails (especially the mountain bikers) to get miles of loops, views of HW from high hills and ridges, and to see a wide variety of different ecosystems all within HW. Examples include deep canyons on the east side of the blue trail, waterfalls on the river trail, scenic HW views from the Headwaters Park, HOA Townes Crt trail to HWBLVD, the Big Foot Trail ridge trail, hill 4 & hill 5 HOA trails, the historic StageCoach Bridge (just redone with a sign explaining its history) and HW own bluebonnet field off the lower green trail for family photos in the spring, huge sand dunes (lower orange trail) and much more (old ranch structures and buildings on east end of East/West trail).
If you are scared of snakes or spiders or wild pigs or whatever, I've walked all these trails daily for four years and have seldom had a problem with any of these. In fact, I was walking at the top of Dayridge on the sidewalk and came closer to walking on a coral snake that happened to come out of the lawn to cross the sidewalk at the same time I was going to step on the same spot. There used to be TX black snakes (harmless) (two) living in the creek (Roy Branch Creek) along what we call the River Trail but we haven't seen them for the last 18 months. Most snakes are seen on HW lawns, sidewalks or roads than on the trails. I wouldn't go in the HW deep canyons looking for rattlesnakes (blue trail) or detour off the trail (lower green trail) where the wild pigs (smaller than the wild pigs you are imaging, in fact, you can see field camera videos of them on this website category) mostly hang out.
Enjoy living in Hill Country with nature!
If you are scared of snakes or spiders or wild pigs or whatever, I've walked all these trails daily for four years and have seldom had a problem with any of these. In fact, I was walking at the top of Dayridge on the sidewalk and came closer to walking on a coral snake that happened to come out of the lawn to cross the sidewalk at the same time I was going to step on the same spot. There used to be TX black snakes (harmless) (two) living in the creek (Roy Branch Creek) along what we call the River Trail but we haven't seen them for the last 18 months. Most snakes are seen on HW lawns, sidewalks or roads than on the trails. I wouldn't go in the HW deep canyons looking for rattlesnakes (blue trail) or detour off the trail (lower green trail) where the wild pigs (smaller than the wild pigs you are imaging, in fact, you can see field camera videos of them on this website category) mostly hang out.
Enjoy living in Hill Country with nature!
