San Antonio is notorious for its construction. With three major projects underway in the city, it’s difficult to travel anywhere without it disrupting your route.
However, a recently published video is calling attention to how it is impacting potential tourists’s experience as well. TikTok user Amanda Frazier shared a TikTok video on Friday, February 13, which shows the unique, though not quite scenic, view from their hotel room.
Frazier, who is currently a Seguin native, was staying in the city over Valentine’s Day weekend. They lived in the Alamo City for a few years before moving further North. While a guest at the Drury Inn & Suites San Antonio Near La Cantera Parkway, located at 15806 I-10, they stepped outside to their balcony to a sight that one has dubbed the “view of doom and despair.”
No fluorescent green trees or bodies of water in sight, just a busy access road and construction equipment parked near “the historic site” of North Loop 1604 West and U.S. 87. The clip got nearly five million views and over 3,000 comments, with several expressing disdain at not just San Antonio, but Texas as a whole’s decreasing amount of wooded areas.
“This is what The Lorax talked about,” one social media user (@martesmart3s) commented, referencing a movie about a character who destroys a natural forest to create and sell plastic trees.
“Can they grow some bushes and stuff, omg,” another (@secretlysamhamjam)Â wrote.
Others went as far as to call Texas the “ugliest state” (@losogreatest), though there are still several regions, including the Hill Country, where open land thrives. The landscape may not be what draws guests in, but the hotel is conveniently located near attractions such as The Shops at La Cantera, SeaWorld, and Six Flags Fiesta Texas. A one-night stay in March 2026 costs between $109 and $205, per the inn’s website.
A view from San Antonio, Texas’s, Drury Inn is going viral on social media in 2026 because it has a “sad” view of Loop 1604 construction. (Courtesy of Google Streetview)
Near the property, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is working on a $1.4 billion project to improve Loop 1604. Crews aim to transform it into a 10-lane highway and replace the I-10 and Loop 1604 interchange by 2027.
While it is appealing to the eye for some, TxDOT district engineer Charles Benavidez previously told MySA it is happening because the route’s traffic is expected to double by 2040, and these tasks must be done to meet that growth.
A view from San Antonio, Texas’s, Drury Inn is going viral on social media in 2026 because it has a “sad” view of Loop 1604 construction. (Courtesy of Google Streetview)
“It’s one of the most congested corridors in the state,” TxDOT Public Information Officer Jennifer Serold told MySA. ” It’s bringing a lot of congestion relief to drivers by giving them more lanes to travel on. And then, of course, when you reduce congestion, you increase safety for the drivers.”
MySA reached out to the Drury Inn & Suites San Antonio near La Cantera Parkway for comment.
This article originally published at San Antonio hotel’s ‘view of doom and despair’ near Loop 1604 goes viral.