ATX Water

Greenbelt

Does Sculpture Falls have water?

Dry

Barton Creek at Loop 360: 0 cfs · 2h ago

Watercolor illustration of a dry limestone creek bed under drought grasses

No flow at the gauge. This location is dry.

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.

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ideal 15 - 50 cfsPast years on these dates:10th - 90th percentile25th - 75th percentilemedian

Barton Creek at Loop 360 gauge →

Bacteria: clearLast significant watershed rain was 9 days ago — past the 48 - 72h guidance.

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

Consensus range 15 - 50 cfs at Loop 360.

Per-spot ranges reconciled from austintexasthings.com/flows and greenbelter.io, the two long-running hobbyist trackers.

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