Lake Granbury

Visiting Lake Granbury

Lake Granbury sits at 32.3739, -97.6878. The Brazos River carries the outflow. Maximum depth is around 75 feet. Surface elevation is about 693 feet.

Many smaller lakes have no designated beach at all, only informal shoreline access. Lake Worth Beach, on Lake Worth, is the closest named beach in this guide, about 34 miles off. No named swimming beach is mapped at Lake Granbury in the federal and state datasets this guide reads. Access is through whatever the operating agency provides on the ground, so check with them first.

The closest lakes in this guide are Lake Pat Cleburne (Texas, 17 mi), Benbrook Lake (Texas, 22 mi) and Lake Weatherford (Texas, 28 mi). Texas has 118 lakes on this site in total.

Swimming season in Texas runs through the warm months, and day-use areas set their own opening dates. If the water looks like pea soup or paint, stay out and report it to the managing agency. There is no water temperature sensor here, so only air conditions are shown.

Readings come from station 08090900 (Lk Granbury nr Granbury, TX). Conservation capacity is 132,949 acre-feet. The agency sets full pool at 692.7 ft. That put the reservoir at 88% of its conservation capacity. Over the record shown on the level page the gauge has moved between 690.63 ft and 692.80 ft (low on 2026-09-08, high on 2026-06-07). The top of the dam sits at 707.0 ft. The last value stored here, 690.59 ft, is from 2026-09-09. A low pool exposes stumps and mud in the shallow arms of the lake.