TexasReservoirDallas County

White Rock Lake

Fed by the White Rock Creek, White Rock Lake holds roughly 1,254 acres of water in Texas. Its shoreline falls inside Dallas County. It is managed by City of Dallas.

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CountiesDallas County

Coordinates32.8342, -96.7228

Surface area1,254 acres

Max depth18 ft

RiverWhite Rock Creek

Managed byCity of Dallas

Swimming beaches on White Rock Lake

No named swimming beach is mapped yet for this lake. Access is through agency day-use areas and boat ramps listed below. We add beach pages only when we can confirm a name, coordinates and an operating agency.

White Rock Lake on the map

Lake center, swimming spots and access points.

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Weather and water temperature

Air temperature and wind from Open-Meteo. Water temperature only when the lake has a public sensor.

Weather data by Open-Meteo

White Rock Lake explained

The center of the lake is at 32.8342, -96.7228. It lies at roughly 459 feet of elevation. The deepest point on record is about 18 feet. Water leaves through the White Rock Creek.

Nearby water includes Lake Ray Hubbard (Texas, 13 mi), Mountain Creek Lake (Texas, 16 mi) and Lavon Lake (Texas, 21 mi). In all, 118 lakes in Texas are covered here.

Most Texas day-use areas open for the summer season and close outside it. There is no water temperature sensor here, so only air conditions are shown. Freshwater advisories are issued locally, so check the state health department before you swim.

White Rock Lake has no catalogued swimming beach in the sources we read, so plan around the managing agency's own facilities. County parks and private resorts sometimes provide access that federal datasets never record. Screech Owl Reach, on Lake Tawakoni, is the closest named beach in this guide, about 40 miles off.

No public gauge reports the water level at White Rock Lake, so this page shows no level chart. We would rather leave the figure out than publish an estimate that nobody measured. Local marinas and park offices usually know the current state of the water better than any feed.