From wooded lots to open acreage, we keep Cedar Creek lawns and landscapes looking their best.
Cedar Creek is home to McKinney Roughs Nature Park, an LCRA preserve on the Colorado River where four distinct Texas ecosystems — Lost Pines, post oak savannah, blackland prairie and river bottomland — come together.
That mix of soils and settings means Cedar Creek yards vary a lot from lot to lot. Bastrop Landscapes knows the local ground and keeps lawns, beds and acreage here looking their best.
A finished zone near the house kept on a regular cycle, with the native ground beyond it cut on its own schedule.
Planting chosen for the piece of ground it is actually going into — soil here can change from one end of a lot to the other.
Drives, fence lines, and the seam where kept lawn meets native grass, which is the line that decides how the whole property reads.
Eastern red cedar and yaupon pulled off open ground before it gets expensive, plus limbing up around structures and drives.
Feeding matched to the soil you actually have, which on a Cedar Creek lot can mean two different soils and two different plans.
Larger passes on acreage, sequenced around growth and rain rather than the calendar, with haul-off included.
McKinney Roughs sits on State Highway 71 at Cedar Creek — 1,140 acres running down to the Colorado River, eight miles west of Bastrop and thirteen east of the airport. The LCRA describes it as a convergence point for four distinct ecosystems: post oak savannah, blackland prairie, East Texas piney woods and river bottomland.
That is a nice line on a park sign and a genuinely awkward fact if you own a few acres nearby. The ground can change underneath you between one end of a lot and the other. And “roughs” is not decoration — it is a description of terrain broken enough that nobody could farm it. Broken ground means slope, and slope decides where your water goes.
If you want a number quickly, tell us the total acreage, roughly how much you want finished versus simply kept down, and whether anything needs clearing rather than mowing.
Cedar Creek is unincorporated, so the City of Bastrop’s permanent 9:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m. sprinkler ban does not govern you. Rural water suppliers and private wells set their own drought stages and those move up and down through the year. Check yours before planning anything that depends on irrigation to survive August.
Cedar Creek is the commuter edge of the county — close enough to Austin and the airport that most people here are not home when we are. That is fine; we work from the gate and report back. Acreage work is quoted after a walk, because access and haul-off distance move the number more than the acreage does. We cover the whole of Bastrop County, and Elgin on the same side of the highway.
We're not a franchise routing trucks through town — we're a local landscaping company that lives and works in the Bastrop and Cedar Creek area. That means we show up when we say we will, we communicate with you directly (no call center), and we treat your yard like it's our own. When you want a Cedar Creek landscaper who knows these lawns, we're a short drive away.
We serve Cedar Creek and the surrounding area, including Bastrop, Smithville, Red Rock, Paige, and Rosanky.
Usually not all of it on the same schedule. Most Cedar Creek quotes are a finished zone near the house plus a maintained zone beyond it, cut a few times a year. Pricing them as one job is how people end up overpaying.
Often because it is two different soils. Four ecosystems converge around Cedar Creek and the change can happen inside one property line. The same grass and the same feed across the whole lot gives you exactly that result.
Yes. The cedar out here is eastern red cedar, not the Ashe juniper people fight in the Hill Country. It colonises open ground quickly and it is cheap to pull at knee height and expensive at head height.
That is almost always grading rather than plumbing. Broken ground sheds water and it collects at the low point, so we look at what the ground is doing fifty feet uphill of the puddle rather than at the puddle.
Cedar Creek spreads out west of Bastrop toward the airport and Hwy 21, where properties get bigger and lawns blend into acreage, native grass, and brush. Out here it's less about a manicured postage stamp and more about keeping a large property looking sharp and under control.
We handle larger-property mowing, lot and brush clearing, and clean edging where the maintained lawn meets the native areas. Keeping the zone around the home tidy — beds, trees, and turf — makes the whole property read as cared-for even when it's mostly acreage.
I have a couple acres — can you mow all of it?
Yes — we handle larger lots and acreage, plus brush and field areas, and keep the home's lawn and beds sharp.
Do you do lot clearing and brush control?
We do — clearing overgrowth and keeping native areas in check is common work out in Cedar Creek.
We serve Cedar Creek and the west-Bastrop / Hwy 21 area — same-day quotes in most cases.
Tell us about your project — we’ll get back to you, usually the same day.
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