{"id":378624,"date":"2026-07-19T11:51:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378624\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:51:20","slug":"natural-bridge-caverns-reveals-trinity-aquifer-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378624\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Bridge Caverns reveals Trinity Aquifer this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors can see a phenomenon that hasn&#8217;t been visible for a decade this weekend at Natural Bridge Caverns. \u00a0The Trinity Aquifer is normally hidden, but heavy rainfall sent groundwater into the aquifer, which has risen into the lower chambers of the caverns. Water levels were measured at 44 feet\u00a0Friday afternoon \u2014 the highest the Natural Bridge Caverns have experienced in 10 years. The park is offering daily tours, and the aquifer should be visible throughout the weekend before it starts receding and once again disappears into the cavern&#8217;s passages.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visitors can see a phenomenon that hasn&#8217;t been visible for a decade this weekend at Natural Bridge Caverns.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-378624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378624","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=378624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}