it will take yrs  but they are slowly coming back 

As of October 1, 2016 the Lost Pines trail is entirely closed. The website shows a portion of it open, but that is out of date.

I hiked the outer loop of Bastrop State Park's trails today. You wouldn't so much say that the fire damage was still visible as that it remains the dominating feature of the park. There are dead trees everywhere--standing and fallen. In some areas, it's a forest of bare, whitened trunks. 

The Red Trail weaves through the floor of a large ravine or small valley, crossing a small rust-colored stream repeatedly, and the whole thing feels strangely unearthly or primeval.

But there are signs of recovery. Grasses have moved in to take advantage of all the newly available sunlight, as have yaupons and povertyweed. Post oaks and blackjack oaks, coppiced by the fire, have put out thickets of new sprouts. And pine saplings are growing in, if a little hesitantly and unevenly. Most are 5 feet or smaller, but in some favored spots there were small groves that were 10 or 12 feet tall.  It's worth visiting just to see how the forest repairs itself.

The hike was a nice blend of valley and ridgetop ecosystems, and it provided some comfortable flat areas, with a little variety provided by some not-too-terribly-taxing hills.

Side note: the park's Copperas Creek camping area has the nicest restrooms I've ever seen in a state or national park in my entire life.

Bit off a little bit too much (very sore today), would have started at the dirt road and done 4.5 miles had I known we could break it up.  We saw more people on this hike than most hikes.  Maybe a dozen over 3 hours so still not a lot.  No water running in the creek. A bit of a hill coming back up but not really too much of one.  Was a lot of fun and the trees are huge.  Take the map they give you at the front as it breaks up the mileage.  Now costs $4 each.

My dog and I had a great time on this hike!  I grew up in Maine so seeing so many pines trees was quite a trip.  I didn't see a single animal, and only heard one bird but all in all it was beautiful.  There is a part of the trail that as a sandy path..it was wonderful:) 

We started out on the Purple trail and one of the trail markers had fallen over so we didn't know which way to go.  We ended up doing the Orange trail which worked out perfectly to get back to the car. 

Only saw one family on the hike and two people on 4 wheelers.  Great time!

This was an easy hike in a unique forest to central texas.  We hiked about 2/3 of the way around the trail(clockwise direction) before finding a nice area to sleep for the night. The primitive camping area is huge so we were totally isolated which is a nice change from most of the primitive sites in central texas parks.  Everything seemed perfect until I was awoken at about 10:30pm by loud music and yelling in the distance, the party continued until about 3am making it very difficult to sleep.  I would advise one to avoid fri or sat nights in this park or if you can not do that, at least camp in the north east corner of the primitive area because there is a residential area centered just south of the primitive camping zone where the noise was coming from.

My husband, daughter, dog, and I hiked this trail.  It is absolutely beautiful.  The trail was shaded by pine trees and the wind blowing through them was wonderful.  The trail was easy to follow.  We rarely ran into other hikers- and only heard the road  when there were motorcylces, and then we only heard them when we were by the trail head.  My husband and I are from Colorado and felt like we were back home when we hiked here.  We would recommend this hike to anyone!

Lots of road noise. Beautiful hike.

This is a nice place to go near Austin if you want to hike in the pine forest.  The Lost Pines are quite beautiful, and the terrain is very different than other places within a reasonable driving distance of Austin.  The soil is sandy, and the terrain is mostly gently rolling.  The nice thing about this hike is its one of the longer loop hikes near Austin.  When I was there, I only saw two other groups of hikers on the LPHK, but it wasn't exactly the nicest day to be outdoors.  The only negative thing I have to say about Bastrop State Park, and the LPHK is that it gets a bit monontous.  The scenery is great, but it doesn't really change at all throughout the hike - other than a few muddy ponds.  The small lake is a nice place, but there were quite a few people there.

Overall, not bad...