The biggest single thing in Bastrop County that is not a town. Four hundred-odd rooms on the Colorado River at Cedar Creek, a golf course, a spa, a river beach and a lazy river — and one of the largest employers for miles.
A name to know before you search for it. The resort now markets itself as Lost Pines Resort & Spa, on its own domain at lostpinesresortandspa.com. It is still a Hyatt Regency property — Hyatt carries the hotel page and the resort's own booking runs through Hyatt — but if you go looking for the old names you will come up short.
Two of those old names are gone. The golf course spent years as Wolfdancer Golf Club; that name appears nowhere on the resort's current site, and wolfdancergolfclub.com now redirects to the resort's own golf page. Spa Django has likewise gone. The course and the spa are both very much still there. Only the branding changed, and a lot of directories have not caught up.
Hotel
A full-scale destination resort rather than a hotel with a pool. Rooms and suites, several restaurants, conference and event space large enough that a good share of the county's corporate visitors never see Bastrop itself. The Crooked River water feature — lazy river and pools — is the thing most families come for.
Golf · open to the public
An eighteen-hole resort course along the river, and one of the few in the area you can play without a membership. It is presented now as the resort's own course; the Wolfdancer name has been retired. Course and tee times →
Spa
Full-service resort spa. Day passes and treatments have historically been available to non-residents; the resort is the authority on current policy and pricing.
Two reasons, and neither is about holidays.
It is an employer. A resort of this size runs on housekeeping, kitchen, grounds, maintenance, front desk and events staff, most of whom live in Bastrop, Cedar Creek, Elgin and Smithville. It is one of the largest private employers in the county.
It brings people who do not know the county. Guests arrive for a wedding or a conference with a free afternoon and a phone, and they search. That is a steady stream of visitors looking for somewhere to eat, something to do and somewhere to buy a gift — and the businesses that turn up in that search are the ones whose websites work. Which is a large part of the point of this site.
Cedar Creek has its own Dollar General and Tractor Supply, and the county's events calendar is worth a look before you drive back. Places to stay across the county are on Bastrop Realty.
Address, phone and coordinates come from OpenStreetMap contributors filtered to the Bastrop County boundary. The branding notes come from fetching the resort's own live website and following the redirects from its former golf domain, on the day this page was built. The resort is the authority on its own rates, hours and policies — where this page and the resort disagree, believe the resort.
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