Camp Mystic in Texas files for bankruptcy after catastrophic floods killed 28 people

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Camp Mystic in Texas files for bankruptcy after catastrophic floods killed 28 people

A broken heart sign is displayed near Camp Mystic on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, after a flash flood swept through the area in Hunt, Texas. (AP Photo/Eli Hartman, file)

2026-06-24T12:56:28Z

                                       

        data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/texas-flooding-girls-missing-camp-mystic-395992e236e35c4486f9a6a97eed7704">Camp Mystic filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on Wednesday, nearly a year after catastrophic floods killed 25 girls and two teenage counselors at the all-girls Christian camp in Texas.

In paperwork filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of Texas in Houston, the camp listed its debt as exceeding $10 million. The camp along the Guadalupe River said it had assets in the range of 100,001 to $500,000.

Families of the victims         data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/camp-mystic-texas-floods-lawsuit-facb4e132c4503fa08d025efe15b42af">filed a lawsuit in November saying the camp operators failed to take         data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/texas-floods-camp-mystic-legislative-committee-3e59875ab298babe868f562138de88dd">the necessary steps to protect the girls as life-threatening         data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/camp-mystic-texas-floods-timeline-554624afa91d4d9c529c8b554200de57">floodwaters approached on July 4. Camp owner Richard Eastland also died in the flood.

All told, the destructive flooding killed at least 136 people along a several-mile stretch of the river,         data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/texas-floods-kerr-county-9f0f73636e1ff3bee0cb44befdef4497">raising questions about how things went so terribly wrong.

The bankruptcy filing comes weeks after         data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/texas-floods-camp-mystic-reopening-27c49f3d478c3923dfff0cd97824382b">Camp Mystic halted plans to reopen this summer in the face of outrage from victims’ families and lawmakers that the century-old camp intended to welcome girls back while lawsuits and investigations remained ongoing.

                                   
                               
                           

                           
                   
                   
Source: Camp Mystic in Texas files for bankruptcy after catastrophic floods killed 28 people