Camp Mystic

The bankruptcy complicates the fate of multiple lawsuits brought by family members of the campers and counselors who died in the July 2025 flooding, experts said.

A new investigative report paints a troubling picture of Camp Mystic's preparedness before last year's historic July Fourth floods, which killed 25 campers and two counselors. The 115-page report will now be used by the Texas Legislature to guide future policy changes.

Camp Mystic faces five wrongful death lawsuits. It wants to resolve them out of court, through arbitration.

The Texas Board of Nursing reversed the emergency suspension of Mary Elizabeth Eastland’s license, but allegations tied to last summer’s deadly Camp Mystic flood remain unresolved.

State regulators say Camp Mystic’s chief health officer abandoned campers and staff as deadly floodwaters rose.

The Texas Department of Health Services previously notified Camp Mystic its license to operate may not be renewed unless it made major revisions to its emergency plan.

The Eastland family, the camp's owners, testified the day after a team of investigators shared findings about a lack of emergency training among camp counselors.

Twenty-eight people died at the Christian girls' camp during last July's deadly flooding.

The camp has 45 days to revise its emergency plan.

The family of 8-year-old Cile Steward, whose body has not been found, said they are worried that evidence could be destroyed if Camp Mystic were to reopen this summer.

The medical officer for the Texas summer camp where 27 girls were killed in a flood last year has testified that she still has not officially reported the deaths to the state health agency that regulates camps.

The director of the Texas summer camp where 27 campers and counselors were killed by a devastating flood in 2025 said he did not see early federal and state warnings sent the day before the storm hit and that staff had no meetings about the pending danger.