A visit to Canyon Lake Gorge will help residents better understand the impact of flooding and how water works in our region.
in November completed a self-guided overlook trail along the canyon’s north slope.
The gorge owes its existence to the massive 2002 floods, some of the most deadly and destructive in Texas history. An entire year’s worth of rain fell over one June week on the hills of the upper Guadalupe River watershed, filling Canyon Lake to the brim for the first time since its construction in the 1960s.
The 0.62-mile out-and-back trail follows the east side of the gorge, passing pools, waterfalls and the dry patches between them where water disappears underground. It connects eight viewpoints with benches and interpretive signs and restrooms at both ends. The trail dead-ends at the final overlook below the Canyon Dam spillway.Visitors on the
My favorite viewpoint looked down on the Hidden Valley Fault Zone, where a band of sedimentary rock of a different color and composition than the adjacent limestone, has shifted downward 180 feet. The fault is part of the Balcones Fault Zone, formed 25 million years ago and the reason for the Great Springs of the Edwards Aquifer — San Antonio, Comal, San Marcos and Barton among them.
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