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Bastrop State Park will reopen Dec. 2. Not all of it - the historic cabins are getting new roofs, half the campsites aren't ready for campers yet and the primitive camping areas will be off-limits ...
But he says he knows people probably won't be inclined to visit after the devastating Bastrop County Complex fires burned 96 percent of the park's 6,600 acres. Some camping, hiking and day-use ...
Crews have dug up a containment line that stretches 6.2 miles ... on site throughout the night fighting to keep the wildfire under control, which burned areas north of the Bastrop State Park.
Bastrop State Park was 97 percent burned from a fire in 2011, and another fire in 2015. Years later, you can still see the devastation. Over the past six years, park staff have planted 2 million ...
In all, $2.6 ... site, where wind rustles through stands of loblolly pines and the endangered Houston toad lives. The Bastrop project is part of $44 million in repairs to state park infrastructure ...
Erik Ryan and Mia Reynolds from San Leon, Texas, sit at the picnic table at their campsite in Bastrop State Park. Reynolds, who is currently on hold with FEMA, says that she has been through ...
Three interconnected Texas icons - the Lost Pines, Houston toad and Bastrop State Park - face daunting futures in the wake of the wildfire that scorched almost 55 square miles near Bastrop this ...