When Reynolds arrived at Bastrop State Park, he said several members of the staff were out on COVID-19 leave, thinning the group of people tasked with maintaining the 6,600-acre state park.

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 ...

As one of 40 parks across Texas benefiting from renovation projects, Bastrop State Park will spend about $4 million on improvements financed by the sale of voter-approved bonds authorized by the ...

BASTROP STATE PARK - Todd McClanahan drives slowly past the black ghosts of pine trees stripped to their bones, past acre after acre of fire-blasted ground that in many places has received a ...

Park rangers say the woods are coming to life again. New roofs on 1930s era Bastrop State park structures reflect the rebuilding efforts. Some park structures, still roofless line the recently ...

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. ...