{"id":338710,"date":"2026-06-16T18:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338710\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T18:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:42:12","slug":"austins-barton-springs-pool-closed-after-flash-floods-rainfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/338710\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin&#8217;s Barton Springs Pool closed after flash floods, rainfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Austin Parks and Recreation Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.austintexas.gov\/parks\/parks-and-recreation-facilities-closures#449979011-38280828\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">issued a public notice<\/a> on Monday that Barton Springs Pool would remain closed until further updates as a result of the heightened rainfall and area flooding. Videos shared on social media by TikTok user @casey.legg depicted rushing water, rapids and waterfalls at the natural springs pool.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;PSA Barton Springs Pool is Closed today &#8211; for obvious reasons. This rain is crazy!&#8221; @casey.legg captioned the video, which has been viewed more than 120,000 times.<\/p>\n<p>For those looking to take a refreshing dip later this week, city officials encouraged residents and visitors to double-check the Parks and Recreation Department&#8217;s facility closures page, which confirms which pools and splash pads are currently offline. In addition to Barton Springs Pool, the following pool facilities are closed for the time being:<\/p>\n<p>City officials will announce once Barton Springs Pool is back open, as well as update details on its closure page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Austin Parks and Recreation Department issued a public notice on Monday that Barton Springs Pool would remain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2108,10428,820],"class_list":["post-338710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-mysaaustin","tag-mysaoutdoors","tag-mysastaff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}