Bastrop County Park in Cedar Creek Officially Open

Cedar Creek Park  is official. The first Bastrop County Park was officially dedicated on December 5^th. This is the first county owned and operated park for Bastrop County. I and a few others had already begun using the trails and playgrounds for quite some time now. There is a nice concrete trail for walking, bike riding and skateboarding. There is also a nature trail, but the weeds had gotten a little high back in the summer and now it gets dark too early for me to use comfortably. There are fields for baseball and/or softball, looks like a field for soccer and maybe football too. I noticed a small covered pavilion, a few picnic tables scattered about and a playground area. There are also some port-a-pots, not great, but when kids gotta go, they gotta go. The Cedar Creek Park cost approximately $1 million dollars with funds received from a Texas Parks and Wildlife grant of $500,000 and contributions from Cedar Creek native and philanthropist James Voss. Bastrop ISD made the 44 acre park land available which is bordered by Cedar Creek Elementary and Cedar Creek itself. This is a great asset to an area that is already growing with more and more families. The park has been faced with plenty of controversy, skepticism and doubts since it was first proposed by a former Pct. 1 commissioner a decade ago. I for one am glad to see it officially opened and look forward to using it more.