With the unofficial end of summer approaching, New Braunfels tubing outfitters hope they can make a big splash this holiday weekend.

Though tubing can last into the fall, Corner Tubes owner Matthew Hoyt calls Labor Day weekend a “bookend” for the bulk of the season.

“There’s certainly pressure on it,” Hoyt said about having a successful holiday weekend, “but we’re not going to make up July. We lost July.”

The July 4 holiday weekend is one of the busiest weekends of the year for tubing. But as the river rose with heavy rains, dropping water clarity with it, New Braunfels closed the Comal River for recreation on Saturday, July 5. It did not reopen the river until Wednesday, July 9.

“Anytime you have to close... it’s never a good feeling,“ said Blake Reno, the manager at Texas Tubes. ”You

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