There are five Spanish missions along the San Antonio River. The first, Mission San Antonio de Valero, now known as the Alamo, is a museum managed by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. The other four are part of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park and are still active churches. Visiting all of the missions in the park is very easy to do because they are only a short distant apart and the entire amount of traveling is less than 10 miles. Even so we only managed to see two of them. The most northern ( right off of I-10 ), Mission Concepcion, is the oldest unrestored stone church in the United States. The next one on the trail, Mission San Jose, has had extensive restorations after many years of total abandonment. This is also the site of the park’s visitor center.
Both Mission Conception and Mission San Jose are fairly accessible. The main pathways around the grounds are paved. A few of the doorways are too narrow for wheelchairs to fit through but there are other wider doorways. The chapels at both sites have a very steep short ramped section into the pew area. The visitor center is completely accessible.
The parking lot at Mission Conception is pretty small but there are some spaces for buses or RVs. Mission San Jose’s lot is large plus there’s another lot just for buses and RVs. Missions
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