The camp sits along the Guadalupe River, where floodwaters rose fast enough in the early hours of July 7 to overwhelm cabins before anyone could get out. It became one of the deadliest flood events tied to a single youth camp in recent memory.
For families who lost daughters and sisters there, the idea of the land changing hands raises hard questions about what happens to a place marked by that kind of loss. A sale could mean the end of Camp Mystic as anyone knew it, a nearly century-old institution for generations of Texas girls now defined by a single night of water and debris. Who would take on a property with that kind of history is an open question. So is what, if anything, gets built or rebuilt along that stretch of the Guadalupe.
The camp had operated on the river for decades before the flood turned it into a site of tragedy that families and former campers are still struggling to make sense of.