Lake Kyle & Park Headquarters
Home of the Parks and Recreation Office.
The Kyle Parks and Recreation Administrative Offices are now located at Lake Kyle's Park Headquarters building located on Lehman Rd.
Lake Kyle is located at 700 Lehman Road, about a mile south of Bunton Road (Lehman High School) and about half a mile north of FM-150 (PAWS Animal Shelter & Kyle Public Works). The park is on the east side of Lehman Road. Click for map to Lake Kyle
Rules & Regulations For Lake Kyle
As this park was purchased and developed using grants from Texas Parks & Wildlife and the Hays County Parks program, special conditions and rules were adopted. The Lake Kyle Rules & Regulations will help ensure park and open space conservation and preservation for generations, water quality for the Plum Creek Watershed, habitat and wildlife found in the park and proper park management to protect the investments made by the grantors and citizens of Kyle. These rules and regulations are in addition to all other City of Kyle Park rules as set by ordinance through the City Council. Click here to see the rules and regulations of Lake Kyle.
In 2009, the City of Kyle secured a Texas Parks & Wildlife Department Outdoor Recreational Grant to purchase this 119 acre tract of open space from Charles Nash. The TPWD grant also funded development of nature trails, wildlife preservation, wildflower meadow and other outdoor recreational activities like fishing.
The 19 acre lake was created when the Plum Creek Conservation District built a dam in the 1960's to detain storm water from washing downstream into Lockhart and Luling. These flood-control measures along the Plum Creek Watershed have prevented major storms from causing serious damages. This structure is call "Site 2", and is one of 5 sites in Kyle and one of over 30 in the watershed.
Kyle Park Headquarters (Parks and Recreation Department (PARD) Administrative Offices) are located at Lake Kyle. Hours of operation for PARD Office is Monday - Friday, 8a - 5p. For park and lake hours of operation, please click here.
Lake Kyle is a managed conservation preserve which means that the gates to the park are open only when the park headquarters is open. To maximize the number of hours Lake Kyle is open to the public and minimize the impact on the budget, we need volunteers... lots of volunteers. To find out more and how you can volunteer at Lake Kyle, click here.
Activities at Lake Kyle
The Kyle Parks Department has special activities and programs scheduled at Lake Kyle. Here is a list of them:
Please watch out for snakes!
Due to the natural habitat and nature conservation areas, snakes (poisonous and non-poisonous) are present in Lake Kyle. Beware of your footing and steps and use extreme caution at all times. Stay on the trails, but snakes will cross trails.
These are the know poisonous snakes in the Lake Kyle:
Rattlesnake Moccasin Cottonmouth
Lake Kyle Water Temp and Lake Level
To find out the current "real time" or even historical water temperature and/or lake level of Lake Kyle, go to this link (PCCD), choose either MAP, DATA, GRAPH, STATS or PANEL across the top and choose SITE 2 on the left side bar. Knowing these factors may increase your odds of landing the lake record bass, determining the time to picnic or hike the nature trails.
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