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Talking about trash left behind by visitors to Canyon Lake is almost as popular with locals as complaining about lack of crowd control at county boat ramps. With summer season underway, residents are back on ...
Saturday is Free Fishing Day in the state of Texas. Anyone can fish on Canyon Lake on June 6 without a fishing license. “Free Fishing Day is a wonderful opportunity for anglers to share their ...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) began a phased reopening of double-occupancy sites for its Canyon Lake campgrounds today. Campground reservations and payments must be made in advance at http://www.recreation.gov. To protect the staff and ...
Twenty-two-year old Devon Walton of Houston died after going under water in the Comal River around 4 p.m. on Friday, May 30. In a statement on Saturday, New Braunfels Police Department said officers working the ...
Comal County offices close Monday, May 25, for Memorial Day. The Comal County Recycling Center, which is usually closed Mondays, will be closed Tuesday in observance of the holiday. The recycling drop-off location in Spring ...
Want to enjoy getting out on Canyon Lake, the Guadalupe and other nearby rivers without worrying about COVID-19? Try social distancing on a stand up paddle board or in a kayak! It’s easy to stay ...
A 25-year-old Houston man drowned in Canyon Lake on Monday. Jhonatan Zavaleta went missing near the beach area of Comal Park, which reopened to the public on May 16. Comal County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) is ...
National Safe Boating Week ends this Friday, just in time for Memorial Day, the official start to Canyon Lake’s summer boating season. Although this is the year for warning boaters about the importance of social ...
Thunderstorms pounded Canyon Lake on Tuesday, dropping between six to 13 inches of rain after moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, southerly winds and an area of low pressure probably nixed any chance Comal County ...
An hour before heavy rains returned to Canyon Lake this afternoon, Comal County announced flood sirens have been sounded on River Road and warned residents of minor flooding, advising them to move to higher ground. ...
Stay out of the Guadalupe River below Canyon Lake dam today — or drown. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Natural Resource Specialist Samuell Price said this afternoon that the river is cresting at a ...
The 116-acre Comal Park in Canyon Lake, famous for its swim beach, reopens on Saturday, May 16 with improved lake access. Today’s announcement follows a ‘soft’ opening over the weekend, when the Water Oriented Recreation ...
The last full super moon of 2020, the ‘Super Flower Moon’ rises over Canyon Lake tonight. Experience its beauty from the tranquility of a stand-up paddle board or kayak. MyCanyonLake.com Outdoors Editor Karla Held, who ...
Canyon Lake boat ramps operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) reopened today just hours after the Corps announced it would begin a phased reopening of the recreation areas it closed due to ...
Tempers rose over the weekend as overcrowding and lack of social-distancing at boat ramps operated by Comal County — especially at boat ramps #1 and #5 — resulted in angry phone calls to law enforcement ...
Three hundred Comal County residents will get a chance to preview upgrades to Comal Park on May 8, 9 and 10. On Monday, Water Oriented Recreation District of Comal County (WORD), which leased the park ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), which sets the rules for Canyon Lake parks and boat ramps, is seeking public comments on a revision to its regulations that would allow recreationalists to carry guns ...
Water Oriented Recreation District of Comal County (WORD) said today, March 26, it will not reopen Comal Park on April 1. “In an effort to protect public health and discourage social gathering the Water Oriented ...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials announced in a press release today they are leasing Comal Park to Water Oriented Recreation District (WORD) of Comal County. WORD did not immediately provide details about reasons for ...
Thanks to Texas Parks & Wildlife, you can find everything you need to know about fishing conditions in Canyon Lake. GOOD. Water lightly stained; 57 degrees; 5.41 low. Striper fishing is good along the river ...
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) has leased a “no fee” public access area on the Guadalupe River to help anglers target rainbow trout during the peak of the cool-weather stocking and fishing season. Camp ...
Canyon Reservoir Advisory: Due to decreasing inflows upstream of Canyon Dam, the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) will reduce flows to 110 cfs at 6 p.m. Tuesday, October 1.
Caving to legal pressure by Guadalupe Valley waterfront property owners, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) announced today it will not drain Lakes Gonzales, Meadow, Placid and McQueeney for at least 12 months in order to give ...
Canyon Lake saw variable changes in its real estate market between summer 2019 and this fall, according to LakeHomes.com’s 2019 Fall Lake Real Estate Market Report, released last week by the Alabama-based, multi-state real estate ...
Canyon Lake Realtor Sashia Diamond says the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority’s (GBRA) decision to systematically drain lakes Gonzales, Meadow, Placid and McQueeney on Sept. 16 could flood Canyon Lake’s real estate market. Consumer interest in Canyon ...
Dam Community Alliance described the Aug. 27 reopening of Canyon Lake Dam’s service road as an “epic event” on its Facebook page, but what looked like the ending of a year-long battle to restore public ...
On the heels of its wildly unpopular decision to drain lakes Gonzales, Meadow, Placid and McQueeney on Sept. 6, the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority warns those planning to attend its monthly board of directors meeting at ...
The public gets to weigh in tonight on a controversial wastewater permit that would allow developers of Honey Creek Ranch, a planned subdivision with 2,396 new homes on 592 acres, to discharge 500,000 gallons of ...
“I’m sorry, and I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy.” This was J Harmon’s reaction to this morning’s announcement by Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority that it is draining all of its Guadalupe Valley lakes beginning ...
Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) on Sept. 16 will begin systematically draining Lake Gonzales, Meadow Lake, Lake Placid and Lake McQueeney due to safety concerns it announced in a press release issued this morning. Affected property ...
Canyon Lake Water Service Company (CLWSC) is asking all customers to limit water usage after zebra mussels were discovered blocking intake pipes at its Canyon Lake Shores treatment plant. Water production is temporarily restricted and ...
Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) decreased the water release rate from Canyon Reservoir Monday night to 200 cfs. GBRA said the lake level was at 909.83 feet. This, coupled with lower inflow at Spring Branch, sparked ...
A man who drowned in Canyon Lake near the 1200 block of Comal Park Road in Canyon Lake on July 17 is being remembered on Facebook as a biology professor at Our Lady of the ...
The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority’s (GBRA) monthly meeting was packed yesterday as Guadalupe County residents showed up at the agency’s board meeting to share their concerns about the safety of spillgates at four other hydroelectric lakes. ...
The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) will test a newly installed warning-alert system at McQueeney Dam at noon on Sunday, July 14. The new alert can be triggered remotely from GBRA’s control room should an unscheduled ...
Water Oriented Recreation District of Comal County (WORDCC) reminds visitors and residents to “stash your trash” as part of a new campaign aimed at getting the trash off of area roadways, rivers, parks and trails: ...
Comal County Sheriff’s Office announced on its Facebook page Thursday that search crews recovered the body of Roberto Chavez Celis at 5:15 p.m. in the Guadalupe River, not far from where he went missing near ...
Potter’s Creek Park Campground closed earlier today for road, campsite pullout and parking lot resurfacing, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Canyon Lake (USACE) announced in a press release issued this morning. The public ...
Is there really a little ghost town at the bottom of Canyon Lake? Sort of, according to Dive Master Chris Armstrong, a 31-year-old, fourth-generation Canyon Lake native who works for SA Scuba Shack in San ...
Comal County commissioners will consider funding new signage for Boat Ramp #1 in Pct. 1 at their weekly meeting Thursday morning at the county courthouse. They’ve scheduled a public hearing to consider installation of regulatory ...
Recreationalists and tubers, relax. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials at Canyon Lake announced on Thursday that Canyon Dam’s stilling basin will be closed to the public from Friday, May 31st through Saturday, June 8th ...
Update: At 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 24, these were the river rates: Guadalupe River @ Spring Branch (Upper): 483 cfs Guadalupe River @ Sattler (Lower): 367 cfs Guadalupe River @ New Braunfels: 452 cfs Developing story: Thursday, May ...
Following spillgate failures at Lake Dunlap on May 14 and on Lake Wood two years ago, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) today said it has expanded restricted zones upstream and downstream of McQueeney Dam and upstream ...
It’s been exactly one year since the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) abruptly closed the service road atop Canyon Lake Dam, but late this afternoon a work crew began pouring the slab for the ...
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