looking for info on craven parkway trail (built in 1980) and Marvin Taylor trails (built in 76), does anyone know where to get a park map with these trails designated on it?

no. the train tunnel was east side of lake. right next to the existing parking lot
https://vimeo.com/257143430
if you watch my Vimeo video the train access point is the southeath u turn in track.
This is where people got on
The tunnel was the first thing train passengers rode through as the train left going northeast it was parallel to the parking lot in the northeast of McGovern lake

ok thats what i originally thought then wasnt sure after i looked at this map
https://www.houstontx.gov/parks/pdfs/20 … ap2010.pdf
it absolutely takes you to the right of the 982 when facing the lake…into the Africa shaped woods (through the wood no lion fears)…this is without question…

ive got every clue up to the secondary use of in the middle of four alike…and i assume the primary reading refers to trees (based on following clues)…three of which i would take to be winged elms

did the train used to go in the opposite direction? the wiki has it going westward in 1989, when i was there it was going east.

It made a loop
first ti went northeast
the turned almost due west to run along the south side of the road that passed in front of obelisk
this westward stretch is the longest straight away as the train then turned south east to the loop southern tip before heading north east to pass north of the lake, south of obelisk, at almost same point it passed heading west
then the train turned south east and into the train station loop
I am searching in the northeast train loop
I fear it is under recently constructed play area

JoshCornell

looking for info on craven parkway trail (built in 1980) and Marvin Taylor trails (built in 76), does anyone know where to get a park map with these trails designated on it?

Craven Parkway Trail us a half-mile long straight path, about a mile southwest of the I-45/Loop 610 (north side) intersection. Nowhere near Hermann Park.
The Marvin Taylor Trail is a 2-mile jogging loop circling the Hermann Park golf course. It’s one of the places I have to look at the next time I go down there. It was renovated along wih the whole darned place in 2014. I’ve seen tons of pictures, but haven’t found anything noteworthy.

Guardian

There’s been confirmation from a park employee that “No lion fears” was on the train tunnel.

I have found park employees to be incredibly supportive and helpful and the most amazing source of incorrect information.

Josh are you to still 100 percent sure it is just north of McGovern Lake?

the first half of the puzzle most definitely sends you that way…specifically the no lion fears line…look at the 1957 photo…the woods there are in the shape of Africa…lions are the king of the jungle in africa, and fear no other animal…

there only seems to have been development extending bounds of mcgovern lake between then and when preiss was there.

preiss very well may have used the older photo for reference, as it would not be common for aerial photos to be taken back then.

Guardian

Craven Parkway Trail us a half-mile long straight path, about a mile southwest of the I-45/Loop 610 (north side) intersection. Nowhere near Hermann Park.
The Marvin Taylor Trail is a 2-mile jogging loop circling the Hermann Park golf course. It’s one of the places I have to look at the next time I go down there. It was renovated along wih the whole darned place in 2014. I’ve seen tons of pictures, but haven’t found anything noteworthy.

im looking for spots that the exercise areas were in original design, prior to course redevelopment.

its somewhere by the lower bend (close to the lake) id think as opposed to the far NE part of the track, but in the NE generally. see if you can find any winged elms…i was looking at night by time i figured out that was the location, when i was there.

JoshCornell

im looking for spots that the exercise areas were in original design, prior to course redevelopment.

I’ve been looking for a map, myself, because one of my solutions goes along the western side. I don’t know if there were any exercise areas, and I haven’t seen any photos that would indicate them.

JoshCornell

the first half of the puzzle most definitely sends you that way…specifically the no lion fears line…look at the 1957 photo…the woods there are in the shape of Africa…lions are the king of the jungle in africa, and fear no other animal…

There’s been confirmation from a park employee that “No lion fears” was on the train tunnel.

train tunnel is w of zoo right? i think that has to be a secondary ref, the bunny on the wall is also in the trees. though it could also be jim love’s bear, which would have been at the museum of fine arts at the time (probably both).