The Texas Christian summer camp where 28 people, including 25 young girls, died in catastrophic flash flooding last July has declared bankruptcy — amid mounting debts over $10 million.
A Chapter 11 filing listed Camp Mystic’s assets as between $1 million and $10 million and its debts in excess of $10 million, the New York Times reported. The camp has been beset with wrongful-death lawsuits by the families of those killed.
State investigators found in their first official report from the tragedy earlier this month that the all-girls camp was woefully unprepared for the flood, and failed to put sufficient emergency plans in place.
Rising flood waters from the Guadalupe River in Kerr County surged into the camp July 4, 2025, killing 25 children, two teenage counselors and camp director Dick Eastland.
Many of the children found themselves trapped in their cabins or carried off in the raging torrent.
The camp had planned to reopen this year for its 100th anniversary, and said 800 girls had signed up to attend starting in the spring – but it abandoned the plan in April after Texas health investigators found the camp had failed to comply with a slate of newly enacted health and safety regulations.