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Terrell Hills, San Antonio — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Terrell Hills is a small city in Bexar County, Texas, distinct from neighbouring San Antonio and holding the McNay Art Museum.
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Where to stay in Terrell Hills
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Visitors here sleep outside the city limits. Terrell Hills covers barely four square kilometres, so a traveller drawn to the McNay Art Museum almost always books a room in San Antonio and covers the five miles back out from downtown by car. The practical question is which part of the larger city suits you, not which street inside this one.
Bexar County does the rest.
Few places to stay in Terrell Hills — most visitors book in San Antonio nearby.
About Terrell Hills
What are the main landmarks in Terrell Hills?
The McNay Art Museum anchors the city. Three named houses fill out the rest of the register, the H. Lutcher Brown House, the Marshall Steves House, and the Linda Pace House, each standing among the quiet blocks that make up nearly all of Terrell Hills. Art brings the visitors.
What is the history of Terrell Hills?
Incorporation came in 1919. That act made Terrell Hills a municipality in its own right within Bexar County, rather than one more piece of San Antonio spreading outward from its downtown, and the boundary drawn then still holds. The McNay Art Museum sits inside it, five miles from the centre of the larger city in Texas.
Where is Terrell Hills?
Terrell Hills covers a little over four square kilometres of Bexar County, five miles northeast of downtown San Antonio.
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What is the best area to stay in Terrell Hills?
Downtown San Antonio: hotel choice five miles from Bexar County's smallest streets.
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Updated September 2026