{"id":381506,"date":"2026-07-21T21:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381506\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T21:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:58:30","slug":"lake-travis-before-and-after-photos-after-texas-floods-fill-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/381506\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Travis before-and-after photos after Texas floods fill lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, drought pulled Lake Travis<\/a> away from its parks, boat ramps and docks, exposing wide stretches of pale, rocky lakebed.<\/p>\n

Days of heavy rain and flooding <\/a>across the Texas Hill Country <\/a>changed that landscape almost overnight.<\/p>\n

Lake Travis reached full capacity for the first time since 2019 after runoff poured into the reservoir, submerging lakebed that had remained exposed through years of drought.<\/p>\n

The images below compare Lake Travis during low-water conditions in June 2022 with the same locations after the lake’s rapid rise in July 2026.<\/p>\n

Photo 1: In June 2022, visitors at Mansfield Dam Park looked across a broad expanse of pale, rocky ground before reaching the water. By July 2026, much of that ground was underwater as the shoreline pushed back toward the park, narrowing the distance between the lake and nearby facilities.<\/p>\n

Photo 2: Drought conditions were also evident at Cypress Creek Park, where a closed boat ramp stretched across dry ground toward the distant shoreline in June 2022. Four years later, only a small portion of the ramp remained visible above the water.<\/p>\n

Photo 3: A nearby private dock reflected the same transformation. In June 2022, the dock sat several dozen yards from the water, largely unusable because of the receding shoreline. After the recent rains, water once again surrounded the dock.<\/p>\n

Photo 4: Low water exposed a broad stretch of lakebed at Cypress Creek Park in June 2022. The closed boat ramp is visible at the lower right, far from the shoreline. By July 2026, rising water had submerged much of that landscape, bringing the shoreline back toward the park and covering areas that had been dry for years.<\/p>\n

Photo 5: Elsewhere on Lake Travis, drought exposed strips of land that temporarily formed islands around passing boats. By July 2026, those islands had disappeared beneath the lake, replaced by open water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For years, drought pulled Lake Travis away from its parks, boat ramps and docks, exposing wide stretches of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-381506","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\/381506","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=381506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}