Jacob’s Well Natural Area closed to the public Friday after heavy rain on Thursday caused minor flooding. The artesian spring has been closed to the public for swimming due to low water levels since ...

Jacob's Well, after running dry for only the fourth time in recorded history, will be closed to public swimming for the remainder of 2022. (Katherine Sturdivant, Hays County Parks Department) ...

Jacob’s Well Natural Area announced on Wednesday that zero flow had been recorded at the natural springs. The data comes from the U.S. Geologic Survey, which showed that zero cubic feet per second was ...

Texas' elongated drought has done nothing to benefit the states many popular swimming holes. One those beloved swim spots continues to suffer from the drought and an influx of people isn't helping it ...

After sitting dry for 222 days, Jacob’s Well, the iconic artesian spring near Wimberley, has started to flow again. From mid-June through mid-January, the popular swimming hole was a miserable sight: ...

It’s a quiet, cloudy Wednesday at Jacob’s Well Natural Area in Wimberley, an 80-acre park that’s home to the famed 140-foot-deep natural spring known as Jacob’s Well. In normal times, there would be ...

It was a scorching day in July 2022 when I last peered into Jacob’s Well. In a sense, I had come to pay my respects. The artesian spring had stopped flowing again—the consequence of drought and ...

Jacob’s Well, a famous swimming hole in central Texas, is drying up, photos show. Screengrabs from video by Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District. Jacob’s Well, a beloved swimming hole ...

The Texas drought has been going on for so long that you may have forgotten Jacob's Well was quite the popping swimming spot before it went dry. A viral Reddit post from user "u/MovingJesus" to the ...

With the sun shining down, obscuring a deep underwater chimney, Jacob’s Well looked like a black hole on a bright April day. Jeffery Chance and Ward Beecher, two longtime divers of the well, slid 12 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Popular swimming hole Jacob’s Well could be closed for another summer if conditions don’t change. Park ...