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Updated August 2026 · 6 min read
Bastrop State Park campsites book through ReserveAmerica on a five-month window that opens at 8 a.m. Central. The park publishes 76 total sites in the Lost Pines, a $5 entrance fee, and 13 historic CCC cabins at $110 a night. Camp.land does not run alerts for Texas parks. This guide covers the window, the site types, and the sold-out play.
Bastrop State Park sits 35 minutes from downtown Austin in a 70-square-mile pocket of loblolly pine. The park recovered from the 2011 wildfire. Shaded sites, a seasonal swimming pool, Lake Bastrop fishing, and 8.5 miles of trails are why Austin weekends sell out five months in advance.
Every site type at Bastrop State Park, cabins included, releases on the same schedule: five months out at 8 a.m. Central on ReserveAmerica. Weekends sell out at that window. Wednesday and Thursday nights are the easiest to snag. The 13 CCC cabins book months ahead. Set the alarm for the exact morning five months before your trip.
What you are choosing between:
Those counts are the published site types on the Bastrop State Park page. The 76 total is the park's own standalone figure and is not a sum of the site-type rows.
Families at Bastrop State Park usually book a full-hookup or electric site near the bathhouse and pool. Those go fastest. RV rigs should target the full-hookup tier, which has pull-through and back-in options. Walk-in tent sites take a 20 to 60 yard carry and offer the most solitude. Couples who want a roof should take a CCC stone cabin, built in the 1930s, and book months ahead.
Bring firewood to Bastrop State Park. You cannot gather it in the park because of fire recovery. The swimming pool is open Memorial Day through Labor Day.
Missed the five-month release at Bastrop State Park? Cancellations still happen. Cancelled sites go straight back into ReserveAmerica, where anyone can book them. The realistic window to check is two to four weeks before your date, when early cancellation penalties are still low enough that fence-sitters bail.
Because Bastrop State Park is a Texas state park, there is no Camp.land alert for it. Check ReserveAmerica directly in that two-to-four-week window. Wednesday and Thursday nights are the in-park leftover play after Friday-Sunday clears.
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Loblolly pine cabins and shaded ranches in the Lost Pines.
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March through November is the busy season at Bastrop State Park. Weekends sell out five months in advance because Austin is 35 minutes away. Midweek stays are easier to find. The CCC cabins are the first thing to disappear on any holiday weekend.
If Bastrop State Park itself is full, Bastrop has privately owned cabins and vacation rentals on Vrbo. We link the search rather than quote numbers, since inventory changes constantly.
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