Camp Mystic owners propose selling camp, canceling Eastland family ownership

Camp Mystic’s owners filed a bankruptcy plan Friday to sell the camp at a court-supervised auction and end the Eastland family’s ownership. It would also send the wrongful-death claims of families who lost daughters in the July 4, 2025, flood back to trial.

The companies expect the first bid to come from a buyer backed by a group of Camp Mystic families and alumnae. The filing does not name the group or the price. The bidding rules would favor a buyer who keeps running a camp, which would require a new state license.

The filing says the camp’s liability insurance is $6 million per occurrence, shared with the family members named in the suits. The companies wrote that this is not enough to pay the claims if they are allowed in the amounts sought. The camp cut its excess coverage from $10 million to $5 million months before the flood, a decision the filing calls routine.

The plan does not release family members from the lawsuits. The camp’s claims against the family would be frozen until every flood claim is resolved.

The plan was filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston two weeks before an Oct. 9 hearing on the bereaved families’ request to remove the family from control of the case. It also came one week after search warrant affidavits in which a Texas Ranger alleged manslaughter by Camp Mystic LLC. No one has been charged.