![]() ![]() This private club offers its members a unique combination of luxury amenities and natural beauty. If those aren’t roots, I don’t know what is.Harmony Hills Cabana Club is nestled beneath a canopy of live oaks and towering palmetto palms. My daughters get to grow up just a couple blocks from all three of their grandparents. But it’s also unrivaled for my family and me because it’s not just our neighborhood - it’s home to three generations of my family. Harmony Hills is a special place for all of these reasons that make it a wonderful neighborhood to live. And the trees there are just as epic as in the rest of the neighborhood. It’s a safe place for kids to spend their summers. It’s brought together families that have formed friendships around the pool. The Harmony Hills Cabana Club is really a unique and special space. Beneath a rickety awning, he grills on one of two cinder-block barbecue pits that are probably original to the club. He was doing pop-up dinner service long before that was a thing. Bob is one of the folks who make the place run. On most Fridays, you can take a dip in the pool and pick up a neighborhood-famous burger from Bob’s Burgers. Credit: Brenda Bazán / San Antonio Report Josh Baugh, his wife Ashley and their daughters enjoy the shade by the Harmony Hills Cabana Club swimming pool. Speakers in the trees play a menagerie of tunes - often classics that would have been contemporary pop hits when the pool opened in the ‘60s. ![]() There’s a sand volleyball court, a shuffleboard deck (though I’ve never actually seen anyone play), four lighted tennis courts and a clubhouse that hosts sundry community and private events. It’s also where Olympian swimmer Josh Davis honed his skills.įamilies flock to the pool during the summer months, where they can float and soak while sipping on the cold beverage of their choice. The Cabana Club is home to the Harmony Hills Dolphins, the powerhouse summer swim club that wins championship banners every year. And unlike any modern-day neighborhood pool I’ve ever seen, ours has a diving board! The club has three pools - one for small children, one for adults and one for everyone. There are dozens of dedicated club members who keep up the grounds, a veritable oasis in the heart of the neighborhood. It exists for the community and will only exist if the community keeps it alive. Listed as a “community park” on Google Maps, its reality is a bit more complicated. By and large, the fabric of the neighborhood remains unchanged.Ī key anchor point for our community, which happens to be at the end of our block, is the Harmony Hills Cabana Club. But as the properties are turning over, we’re seeing a steady clip of renovations that are done in a way that preserves the character of Harmony Hills. When we bought our second home in Harmony Hills in 2015, it was from the family who’d built it in the mid-1960s. There are still original homeowners living in the neighborhood. Having that relatively large number of homebuilders working in a single neighborhood meant that there were architectural motifs throughout but never a feel of cookie-cutter homes with predetermined floor plans. with more than a dozen individual home builders constructing what were then considered cutting-edge one- and two-story homes. The neighborhood was developed in the 1960s by the H.B. In just a few more, we can be at McAllister Park or Hardberger Park, too. By bicycle, Walker Ranch Park and the Salado Creek Greenway are only three minutes away. Highway 281, the exit for our neighborhood comes just before gridlock seizes the northbound lanes. Nestled between Blanco to the west, San Pedro to the east and West Avenue to the north, Harmony Hills is just 20 minutes or less from all but the farthest reaches of San Antonio. ![]()
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