# Lake Travis Lake Cam

> Live, AI-tracked webcam of Lake Travis in the hills of Lakeway, Texas. The site publishes the current Lake Travis water level, a multi-year elevation chart, a daily 4K timelapse archive going back to August 2022, and weather + flood context. Hydrology data comes from LCRA Hydromet (Mansfield Dam gauge), the Texas Water Development Board, and NOAA / National Weather Service.

## Key pages
- [Lake Travis water level](https://ltlakecam.com/lake-level): the current surface elevation (ft above mean sea level), percent of conservation pool, feet below full pool (full/conservation pool is 681 ft), 24-hour trend, a multi-year chart, a record back to 1940, and a FAQ. The canonical answer for "lake travis water level".
- [Live cam](https://ltlakecam.com/): the YouTube live stream of Lake Travis with AI boat tracking and a live activity feed.
- [Timelapses](https://ltlakecam.com/timelapses): the daily timelapse archive (one dawn-to-dusk video per day since August 2022), browsable by date.
- [About](https://ltlakecam.com/about): how the camera, AI tracking, and data pipeline work, plus the privacy posture.

## Machine-readable data
- Machine index: https://ltlakecam.com/timelapses/index.json — the whole timelapse corpus (date, lake level, daily change, tags, video IDs) in one file. One fetch instead of scraping every day page; described by the Dataset schema on /timelapses.
- Per-day JSON: https://ltlakecam.com/timelapses/{YYYY-MM-DD}.json — per-day timelapse metadata for a given date.
- RSS feed: https://ltlakecam.com/rss.xml — a new item for each day's timelapse.

## Facts & definitions
- Full (conservation) pool is 681 ft above mean sea level. The lake is a flood-control reservoir, designed to rise into a flood-operations band above full pool, up to 721.4 ft.
- "Percent of conservation pool" is measured by volume, not elevation, so it does not move in lockstep with the foot reading.
- Sources: LCRA Hydromet (elevation + flood operations at Mansfield Dam); Texas Water Development Board (conservation-pool volume + history since 1940); NOAA / National Weather Service (forecast + alerts).