Park Road 1C Is the Slow Lost Pines Drive Between the State Parks

Park Road 1C is not the fastest way across Bastrop County, and that is the point. It is the scenic road between Bastrop and Buescher state parks: hilly, 12 miles long, and posted at 30 miles per hour.

The drive matters because it stitches the two parks together in your head. TPWD describes the road as passing through both recovering and forested areas of the Lost Pines. The Bastrop end remains part of the park's fire-and-flood recovery story.

That change is part of the county's identity. The Lost Pines are not a single parking lot or one trailhead. Recovering and forested country stretches along this hilly road between the two parks.

Take Park Road 1C for what it is: a slow, hilly drive through the Lost Pines. Share the road and keep to the posted 30 mph as it runs 12 miles between Bastrop and Buescher.