US EditionCamp Mystic announces enhanced safety plans after death of 25 girls, 2 counselors
Camp Mystic will reopen at a separate Cypress Lake site with over 100 flood monitors, enhanced communications, and compliance with new Texas camp safety laws after 27 deaths in 2023 floods.
- On Tuesday, Dec. 2, Camp Mystic announced plans to reopen next summer at Camp Mystic Cypress Lake, independent from the Guadalupe River camp where July 4 floods killed 25 campers and two teenage counselors.
- Following heavy rainfall that caused the Guadalupe River in Kerr County to overflow, Heaven's 27 families and our state leaders helped pass new camp safety laws, which Camp Mystic intends to exceed.
- Installing LoRaWAN-linked sensors and NOAA radios will provide early detection and alerts, with over 100 flood monitoring units and four flood warning river monitors enhancing safety at Camp Mystic.
- Legal and emotional fallout has included state-court suits and public condemnations as families of victims sued Camp Mystic and the Eastland family, while CiCi and Will Steward called reopening unthinkable with one camper missing.
- Camp Mystic plans six separate 10-day sessions in 2026 starting May 30 and ending Aug. 9, offering April tours for families while enrollment has not yet opened.
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Texas Camp To Reopen After Flood That Killed 27 Children
NEW YORK, Dec 2 — A Texas Christian summer camp for girls, where 27 campers died in a July 4 flash flood, announced plans to reopen in May at a nearby location with enhanced safety measures, despite earlier criticism from a family whose daughter was never found. The century-old Camp Mystic has remained closed after the girls were killed when floodwaters raged through the retreat on the banks of the Guadalupe River before dawn following torrentia…
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