Texas camp where 28 died in floods files for bankruptcy

By Dietrich Knauth

June ‌24 (Reuters) - The ​operators ​of Camp Mystic, where 28 campers and staff members died in catastrophic flooding in ‌Texas last year, filed for bankruptcy protection on ⁠Wednesday.

The company in charge of the camp cited total debts ‌between $10 million and $50 million, ‌and assets that were between $1 and $10 million, in a Chapter 11 petition filed in Houston, Texas, bankruptcy ​court.

Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp for girls, said in April that it had decided ⁠not to open this summer after previously seeking approval from state regulators ​to do so.

Families of victims of last summer's camp flooding testified in April before ​the Texas Legislature and called for ‌closure of the camp.

The deaths came after heavy downpours in Texas Hill Country ⁠transformed the Guadalupe River into a killer torrent on July 4, 2025. Widespread flash flooding in the region ⁠that morning and in the following days killed nearly 140 people ​in the sixth-deadliest freshwater flood disaster in the United States.

The camp did not have written emergency evacuation plans and poorly ‌trained its staff, according to a report released by the Texas Legislature last ‌week.

Camp Mystic did not immediately respond to a ⁠request for comment.

(Reporting by ‌Doina Chiacu in ​Washington and Dietrich Knauth in New York; Editing by Katharine Jackson, Alexia Garamfalvi and Chizu ‌Nomiyama )

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