Camp Mystic offers to sell Hill Country property in bankruptcy plan

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Camp Mystic has offered to sell its Hill Country property and other assets as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, more than a year after catastrophic flooding killed 25 campers, two counselors and the camp’s owner and executive director, Dick Eastland.

Catastrophic flooding swept through Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe River in the early hours of July 4, 2025. The disaster prompted investigations into the camp’s emergency planning and response, as well as multiple wrongful death lawsuits.

The Christian girls’ summer camp filed a reorganization plan Friday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. The plan calls for the sale of most of the assets of Camp Mystic and its affiliates to one or more buyers and distribution of the proceeds through the bankruptcy process.

The plan would put the approximately 725 acres of Camp Mystic near Hunt up for sale. The documents indicate a buyer could continue to operate the property as a camp. Any new owner will still need to obtain a youth camp license from the Texas Department of State Health Services and pass a pre-licensing inspection.

Camp Mystic filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June after facing several wrongful death lawsuits. The filing generally stayed those proceedings while the federal case continues.

The camp is also under ongoing monitoring for its response to flooding.

Camp Mystic is under criminal investigation by the Texas Rangers. A search warrant affidavit says the Texas Rangers found probable cause to believe camp leaders had committed offenses including involuntary manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, injury to a child, abandonment or endangerment of a child and deadly conduct. No criminal charges have been filed.

Under the proposed bankruptcy plan, wrongful death claims would be handled separately. Families could eventually resume or continue their cases, with payments coming first from available insurance and then through the bankruptcy process.

The plan is not final and must be approved by the bankruptcy court before it can take effect.