Cedar Creek, Tx–Bastrop County officials and other dignitaries will gather at 10 a.m. Dec. 5 for ceremonies dedicating the first county-owned and operated park. It adjoins Cedar Creek Elementary School on FM 535, cost roughly $1 million and came to reality only after a decade of planning, controversy and compromise.
Among others to be honored in connection with opening of the project will be the late businessman and philanthropist James Voss, a Cedar Creek native and oil company executive, who contributed to the park’s development. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department put a $500,000 grant into the effort and the Bastrop school district made available the 44-acre park site bordered by Cedar Creek.
Perhaps appropriately, weather for the event is expected to be chilly. Weather forecasters are predicting the first hard freeze of the season on Friday night, with a chance of light snow before morning. From the time the park was first proposed by former Pct. 1 County Commissioner Johnny Sanders, it had enthusiastic supporters but also faced deep skepticism and doubt in some quarters, hence the much-delayed development process.
In later phases of development the park was championed by Bastrop County Judge Ronnie McDonald.