{"id":201169,"date":"2026-03-12T09:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/201169\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T09:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:54:17","slug":"large-sinkhole-forces-trail-closure-at-white-rock-lake-as-city-monitors-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/201169\/","title":{"rendered":"Large sinkhole forces trail closure at White Rock Lake as city monitors stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deep sinkhole has closed part of a popular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/north-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">White Rock Lake<\/a> trail as the city monitors whether rain will worsen the collapse.  <\/p>\n<p>The sinkhole, located between Lawther Drive and Garland Road, is estimated to be at least 14 feet deep. The city has blocked off the area while crews assess the damage.<\/p>\n<p>Chad Ethridge, who lives nearby and frequently uses the trail, said he spotted the sinkhole a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m constantly out here running, walking, and biking,&#8221; Ethridge said. &#8220;I was like, that&#8217;s really deep\u2026 maybe about 20 feet, that&#8217;s my guesstimate. And it was kind of scary because it was exposed there, right on the edge of the sidewalk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ethridge said a woman riding her bicycle quickly alerted police officers patrolling the area.<\/p>\n<p>City officials say the area has been stabilized for now, but they want to monitor it closely \u2014 especially with storms moving through North Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Ground issues not new here<\/p>\n<p>At a White Rock Lake Task Force meeting on Tuesday, Dallas Park and Recreation Board District 9 representative Michael Jung said ground\u2011stability problems have occurred in this area before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That trail has been closed off on several occasions,&#8221; Jung said. &#8220;Parts of it have kind of fallen off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jung said it&#8217;s not yet clear what caused this specific sinkhole.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing is conclusive at this point,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The water department is making temporary repairs. They&#8217;re looking to make sure those repairs are adequate, that there won&#8217;t be more subsidence, and trying to figure out what the long\u2011term solution should be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>City officials say the earliest this stretch of trail could reopen is Thursday, depending on how the ground responds after the rain.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will update this story as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deep sinkhole has closed part of a popular White Rock Lake trail as the city monitors whether&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,430,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-201169","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","11":"tag-north-texas","12":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201169","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=201169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}