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Does Sculpture Falls have water?

Dry

Barton Creek at Loop 360: 0 cfs · 11h ago

Watercolor illustration of a dry limestone creek bed under drought grasses

No flow at the gauge.

The big swimming hole below the carved limestone falls, about 1.5 miles down the Hill of Life trail. Deep enough to jump when the creek is running.

cfs050100Oct 30Oct 31Nov 1Nov 2Nov 3Nov 4Nov 5
ideal 15 - 50 cfsPast years on these dates:10th - 90th percentile25th - 75th percentilemedian

Barton Creek at Loop 360 gauge →

Bacteria: unknownRain gauges have not reported recently, so we can’t tell how long it’s been since the last rain.

Standard local guidance (City of Austin watershed protection, LCRA): wait 48 - 72 hours after significant rain before swimming in creeks; up to a week after major floods. How this countdown works

Where the threshold comes from

Trackers agree on 15 - 50 cfs at Loop 360.

Swimming ranges come from austintexasthings.com/flows and greenbelter.io, two long-running hobby trackers.

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