Outdoors, Parks & Swimming Holes in Bastrop & Lost Pines
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Outdoors, Parks & Swimming Holes in Bastrop & Lost Pines, checked by People of Austin. Swimming holes, trails, parks, pickleball courts, climbing gyms, golf and the Greenbelt, with the details that matter: reservations, parking and when to go.
Bastrop State Park
The Lost Pines forest, still recovering from the 2011 fire, with CCC-built stone cabins, a swimming pool in summer, and the scenic Park Road 1C drive to Buescher State Park.
Buescher State Park
Piney woods and a small lake connect to neighboring Bastrop State Park via a scenic 12 mile park road popular with cyclists.
McKinney Roughs Nature Park
An LCRA preserve along the Colorado River bundles 20 miles of trails through five distinct ecosystems, from prairie to river bottom forest.
Lake Bastrop North Shore Park
A quiet cooling lake ringed by loblolly pines offers swimming, fishing and camping just east of Bastrop's Lost Pines forest.
Wolfdancer Golf Club
The golf course at Hyatt Regency Lost Pines winds through piney woods along the Colorado River, open to resort guests and the public.
Rocky Hill Ranch
Mountain biking ranch near Smithville regarded as one of the top in Texas, hikers welcome.