Bastrop State Park pool reopens May 27, with extended hours, no reservations and ADA-accessible entry. Learn about fees, ...

After more accurate mapping, the Texas A&M Forest Service announced that the Rolling Pines fire has burned 813 acres north of Bastrop State Park and is currently 70% contained. Crews have dug up ...

A 100-acre grass fire near Bastrop State Park that forced the evacuation of nearby residents for several hours on Tuesday was 65% contained, officials said Wednesday. A county official said she ...

BASTROP, Texas — Texas is fortunate to have 80 state parks in virtually every part of the state. And one of the most unusual ones – a park that celebrates the "Lost Pines" – is located in ...

The fire began on Sept. 4, 2011. Almost all of the Bastrop State Park was burned. “We closed the park in order to cut the trees back from the roads and the buildings,” said Cullen Sartor ...

These specialists have expertise in how fire reacts in environments similar to Bastrop State Park. A five-member team of wildland fire experts from the state forestry agencies in Florida ...

Approximately 800 Texas A&M students will bus over to Bastrop State Park Saturday morning (Feb. 16) to start planting 30,000 seedlings as part of Replant’s community outreach efforts.

Bastrop State Park is planning a soft reopening on Dec. 1. It will be generations before the pocket of Lost Pines 30 minutes east of Austin recovers. The wind-driven blaze east of Bastrop on Labor ...

BASTROP — Texans, for generations, have made the trip here for a long look at the tall trees, the last stand in Central Texas of a great pine forest that originally stretched over several states.