Lost Pines Guide
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Find a local business. Or find out why nobody's finding yours.

1,051 businesses across the Lost Pines, free to look up and free to be listed. And if it's your name on the sign, a thirty-second check of what customers see when they go looking for you.

Which one are you?

I'm looking for a business

Phone numbers, addresses and hours for 1,051 local businesses, sorted by town and trade. No app, no account.

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I run a business and want more of them

Find out how you look to somebody searching for what you do, then get a plain-English list of what to fix, free, whether or not you ever hire anybody.

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Or see what we can do for you →

I don't have a website at all

180 businesses in this county are in the same position. It's more common than you'd think, and it's the easiest thing on this page to fix.

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Browse by town

Bastrop 570Smithville 31Elgin 13Cedar Creek 32Red Rock 8Paige 15Mcdade 7Wyldwood 1

Browse by category

Food & Drink 205Home & Trades 99Professional Services 94Health & Wellness 80Auto & Transport 74Real Estate 62Shopping & Retail 56Technology & Media 48Events & Entertainment 42Personal Care 39Lodging & Travel 29Industry & Logistics 25Education & Childcare 17Agriculture & Outdoors 5Other Services 176
Every listing here is free, and it always will be. There's no membership to look anybody up, nothing to sign up for, and no login. If your business is listed and you'd rather it wasn't, one email takes it down, no questions, no retention offer.

Business of the Month

September 2026

The Painted Porch Bookshop

912 Main Street, Bastrop

A bookshop that carries almost nothing, on purpose, only books the owner will personally vouch for. There's a two-storey fireplace built out of books. It's worth the walk for that alone.

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Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort & Spa

575 Hyatt Lost Pines Road, Cedar Creek

The biggest thing in the county that isn't a town, and it quietly changed its name, along with its golf course and its spa. Here's what it's called now.

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Boring Bodega & Hyperloop Plaza

865 FM 1209, Bastrop

A grocery shop, a pub, a salon and a pottery studio. Open to the public, all of it, and each one keeps different hours.

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How people look for you now

More people every month find a local business by asking their phone a question out loud instead of typing one. Whatever anybody round here thinks about that (there are strong opinions, fairly held), it's already how a share of your customers go looking.

The practical upshot is small and unglamorous: a couple of plain text files that tell those systems what you do and who you serve. Hardly any business in this county has them. See whether yours does →

What we check, and why it matters

Nine things, all of them ordinary, all of them fixable in an afternoon. None of it is a design opinion. It measures whether the plumbing works.

Can people reach it?

Whether the site loads at all, and whether the browser calls it secure. A site that times out for us times out for customers.

Does it work on a phone?

Most people looking for a local trade are standing up holding a phone. One missing line of code makes a site render unreadably small.

Does Google know what you do?

The headline and the grey line underneath it in search results. Get them wrong and Google writes its own, usually badly.

Can an assistant read it?

Two plain text files that answer “what does this business do, and where?” for the systems people increasingly ask.

Check your own site →  ·  See how the whole county scores  ·  Where the county is losing customers  ·  How the scoring works

Is one of these your business? Send us hours, a description, photos, a better phone number, or ask to come off entirely. Either way it's free and a person answers: wholetechtexas@gmail.com. And if you want the full write-up on your own site (every check, what we found, and the exact wording to fix it), ask for that too. No charge and no sales call unless you want one.