{"id":385659,"date":"2026-07-24T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385659\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:44:08","slug":"popular-boerne-lake-closed-indefinitely-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385659\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Boerne lake closed indefinitely \u2014 here’s why"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boerne<\/a> City Lake is still closed more than one week after major floods swept across the Texas Hill Country, devastating property owners and forcing local leaders to issue evacuation alerts<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a Facebook post<\/a> shared at 1:10 p.m. on Friday, July 24, the city said that it wanted to remind residents and visitors that City Lake Park, the popular outdoor facility surrounding the giant man-made reservoir, will\u00a0remain closed until further notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Leaders are currently supervising the area while\u00a0flood repair and cleanup continues.<\/p>\n

“We are working hard to get the park back open for parkgoers,” the Facebook post reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During the week of July 13, Boerne and other areas saw widespread flooding. After rainfall earlier this summer left Boerne City Lake resulted in one of the “most significant” rises in water levels in the last 26 years, the lake quickly made history once again, filling to capacity for the first time since 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lake levels surged up to 140% capacity by July 16 during the heavy rainstorms.\u00a0As of July 24, 2026, the lake’s water levels are still eight inches over the reservoir’s 42 foot capacity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Although no Kendall County residents died in this year\u2019s floods, the severe weather claimed the lives of two Texans.<\/p>\n

The region is prone to flash flooding, which can be triggered within minutes. The severe weather, which hit many of the same communities struck down by last year’s Fourth of July floods, arrived roughly ten days after the tragic natural disaster’s one-year mark.<\/p>\n

Parks and Recreation teams are currently cleaning the park and repairing damage, according to the lake’s website. The\u00a0park will reopen when it is safe for visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boerne City Lake is still closed more than one week after major floods swept across the Texas Hill…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1113,820,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-385659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysahillcountry","tag-mysastaff","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385659","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=385659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}