{"id":194285,"date":"2026-03-07T04:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/194285\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T04:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:24:06","slug":"part-of-white-rock-lake-trail-closed-due-to-sinkhole-city-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/194285\/","title":{"rendered":"Part of White Rock Lake Trail closed due to sinkhole, city says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The closure led to the Dallas Running Club cancelling its Breakfast Bash scheduled for Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>DALLAS \u2014 Part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/news\/local\/dallas-county\/white-rock-lake-traffic-barrier\/287-64997ff5-8b47-435e-a01a-7fad161a0f7c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">White Rock Lake<\/a> has been closed due to a nearby sinkhole, according to the City of Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the city is asking the public to avoid the area and follow nearby safety signage. Next steps to reopening the trail will be released once an assessment and work has been completed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Dallas Running Club, the section of the trail from Lawther Drive to the Spillway was closed due to potential risk of collapse. The club had to cancel its Breakfast Bash scheduled for this Saturday morning at the park due to the closure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The safety and security of our race participants will always take precedence in determining whether to proceed with a DRC-sponsored event,&#8221; the club said in a statement. &#8220;Cancellations are always a last resort for the Dallas Running Club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Park and Recreation has previously spoken out about erosion at White Rock Lake <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/article\/news\/local\/dallas-county\/dallas-park-and-recreation-erosion-at-white-rock-lake-public-safety-issue\/287-78f24332-dddf-45bf-9c31-beb0b374889d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">being a public safety issue.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Erosion has been a known problem for years, but a study by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freese.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Freese and Nichols<\/a> to the Dallas Park and Recreation Board in 2024 identified several imminent risks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to treat this as a risk to public safety,\u201d Rudy Karimi of Dallas Park and Recreation Board District 14, told WFAA in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>After Dallas city staff received a preliminary report from engineers in April about steps to mitigate shoreline erosion threatening the trail at White Rock Lake, staff plan to install 1,125 linear feet of sheet piling from the existing trail adjacent to Garland Road in hopes of controlling the erosion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The closure led to the Dallas Running Club cancelling its Breakfast Bash scheduled for Saturday. DALLAS \u2014 Part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-194285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}