Canyon LakeThe 8,200-acre Hill Country reservoir between New Braunfels and Wimberley — the cold-water Guadalupe trout fishery below the dam, eight Corps of Engineers parks, and the Horseshoe river-tubing loop

Canyon Lake sits in the southern Texas Hill Country between New Braunfels and Wimberley — an 8,200-acre Army Corps of Engineers reservoir built in 1964 to flood-control the Guadalupe and create one of the deepest, clearest lakes in Texas. The 80-mile shoreline is ringed by eight Corps day-use parks (Comal, Cranes Mill, North Park, Canyon Park, Potter's Creek, Jacob's Creek, Overlook, the Dam Site), and the lake's elevation drives down a cold-water Guadalupe River below the dam — 58°F released from the bottom of the reservoir, the only year-round trout fishery in Texas. The Horseshoe Falls bend on River Road, three miles east of the dam, is the local tubing-and-river-house epicenter; the rest of the local development sprawls the southwest shore around Sattler, Startzville, and Cranes Mill.

Our Canyon Lake inventory is dominated by the CL-prefix lakeview homes scattered around the southern shoreline (most have lake views but few have direct deeded water access — Canyon Lake's elevation drops in summer drought), the Riverbend Resort condos on the Guadalupe near the Horseshoe Loop, the Ponderosa Country Resort cabins in Spring Branch, and a small set of Wimberley-and-Sattler riverfront homes. San Antonio International (SAT) is 50 miles south, 60-75 minutes; Austin Bergstrom (AUS) is 60 miles north, 75-90 minutes via FM-306 and US-281. Most rentals enforce 2-night minimums; summer weekends run 3-night minimums.