Shuttered Fairfield Lake State Park will reopen temporarily starting Tuesday

State park police officer Kyle Ware points at a map of Fairfield Lake State Park on Feb. 27. (Credit: Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribune)

Officials plan to reopen the embattled Fairfield Lake State Park starting Tuesday for day use as the Legislature considers how the leased property might be saved from being redeveloped into homes.

The park closed to the public Feb. 27 as Texas Parks and Wildlife Department staff geared up to prepare the property for sale. The agency had leased the site for free for decades from Vistra Corp. and its predecessor businesses.