Lake Houston

Visiting Lake Houston

On the map, Lake Houston is centered near 29.9761, -95.1320. The deepest point on record is about 45 feet. The surface sits around 44 feet above sea level. Water leaves through the San Jacinto River.

If Lake Houston is busy, the nearest alternatives here are Lake Conroe (Texas, 37 mi), Lake Livingston (Texas, 53 mi) and B.A. Steinhagen Lake (Texas, 81 mi). Texas has 118 lakes on this site in total.

Algae blooms are seasonal and local: look for posted signs at the ramp or park entrance. The same station reports water temperature, last read at 88.0 °F. Most Texas day-use areas open for the summer season and close outside it.

Lake Houston has no public water level gauge that we can read, so there is no level chart here. An invented number would be worse than none. The closest public station is 295826095082200, Lk Houston S Union Pacific RR Bridge nr Houston,TX, about 0 miles away; it measures a different body of water, so its reading is not a stand-in for this one. We check the public feeds daily, so this page will fill in if one appears.

The nearest mapped swimming spot is El Jardin Beach on Clear Lake, roughly 28 miles away. Many smaller lakes have no designated beach at all, only informal shoreline access. There is no beach on record at Lake Houston in the datasets this guide reads.