Lake Meredith

Visiting Lake Meredith

Its coordinates are 35.7142, -101.5531. The Canadian River carries the outflow. The surface sits around 2,936 feet above sea level. Impoundment dates back to 1990.

There is no water temperature sensor here, so only air conditions are shown. 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.

Station 07227900, Lk Meredith nr Sanford, TX, publishes the water surface elevation used here. The last value stored here, 2,889.12 ft, is from 2026-09-09. The Corps of Engineers puts the top of the flood pool at 2,965.0 ft. Conservation capacity is 500,000 acre-feet. The top of the dam sits at 3,011.0 ft. Over the record shown on the level page the gauge has moved between 2,889.16 ft and 2,893.49 ft (low on 2026-09-08, high on 2025-09-19). That put the reservoir at 41% of its conservation capacity. Full pool is 2,936.5 ft. A low pool exposes stumps and mud in the shallow arms of the lake.

Shoreline access on lakes like this one is often informal and unsigned. The federal and state datasets behind this guide list no named beach at Lake Meredith. That does not mean there is no access, only that none is catalogued.

If Lake Meredith is busy, the nearest alternatives here are Palo Duro Reservoir (Texas, 53 mi), Greenbelt Lake (Texas, 61 mi) and Lake Mackenzie (Texas, 81 mi). In all, 118 lakes in Texas are covered here.