LCRA lakes that are open: Lake Buchanan Lake Marble Falls Lake LBJ Inks Lake

LCRA lake that is closed: Lake Travis

Which parks are closed? Several LCRA-owned and Travis County-operated parks at Lake Travis are closed due to flooding: Bob Wentz at Windy Point, Cypress Creek and Pace Bend. Check Travis County for latest updates. LCRA recreation areas at the lake also are closed: Turkey Bend, Shaffer Bend, Grelle, Gloster Bend, Muleshoe Bend and Narrows. Learn more.

ake Travis will remain closed to recreational boating through the weekend, due to unsafe conditions that continue to affect the lake in the aftermath of recent floods, LCRA announced this morning.

Travis, at an 4:30 p.m. elevation of 690.8 feet above mean sea level (msl), is down 10 feet from its peak elevation last Friday but is still more than 10 feet above full elevation in its flood pool.

In making the decision to keep the lake closed through this weekend, LCRA officials noted that the lake's elevation is still too high for most public boat ramps to be reopened. There is still a large amount of debris in the lake, and local marina owners are still making repairs from the recent flood. Wakes from watercraft would cause additional damage to flooded homes along the lake.

LCRA will assess conditions early next week to determine whether to reopen the lake to recreation.

LCRA closed Lake Travis to recreation June 29, following rains of up to 19 inches or more in some Hill Country locations that ultimately poured more than 1 million acre-feet of water into the Highland Lakes chain. The floodwaters caused an already full Lake Travis to peak July 6 at 701.52 feet msl, its fifth-highest elevation since Mansfield Dam was completed in 1942.

The upper Highland Lakes — Buchanan, Inks, LBJ and Marble Falls — remain open to recreation. LCRA cautions boaters to watch for debris or other navigational hazards, and swimming in the lakes is at your own risk.

Dam operations
On Friday, one of the four open floodgates at Mansfield Dam was closed. The remaining gates may be closed in the coming week, if there are no more rains in the Hill Country watershed that flows into Travis.

Lake Travis and Mansfield Dam — designed specifically to hold and safely release Hill Country floodwaters — continue to do their job of protecting Austin and downstream communities from the worst effects of floods.

See situation report for the latest details on floodgate and dam operations.

Conditions downstream of Austin
Get the latest information about downstream conditions by reading the situation report.