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Texas Lawmakers Tour Camp Mystic During Intensifying Probes, Reopening Push

The private visit shows growing pressure as investigators review complaints under a court order preserving the flood site.

Camp Mystic Director Edward Eastland listens at a court hearing in Austin, Texas, on March 4, 2026. The parents of a child who remains missing and is presumed dead after flood waters struck the camp on July 4, 2025, are fighting to stop renovations at Mystic as their lawsuit against the owners continues. At least 27 campers and counselors from the all-girls summer camp were killed.
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Overview

  • State House and Senate investigators conducted a private walkthrough of Camp Mystic, focusing on the riverside cabins where floodwaters swept through in July 2025.
  • The Department of State Health Services, with help from the Texas Rangers, is reviewing hundreds of complaints about the camp’s safety practices.
  • A Travis County judge, after a three-day evidentiary hearing, ordered the Guadalupe River campus preserved and found the camp may have lacked a written evacuation plan and proper safety training.
  • Camp Mystic seeks to renew a license for its higher-ground Cypress Lake campus, and about 800 families have enrolled despite ongoing legal, licensing, and criminal reviews.
  • Some Kerr County residents urged lawmakers to examine the wider countywide flooding, while the civil case returns to court next month and the first trial is set for May 2027.