A look at what Maple Run Sink is.

Maple Run Sink is a sinkhole with a subtle moist environment with a high level of moisture perfect for mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are the natural wildlife that inhabit Maple Run Sink. The moist environment is a subtle breeding ground ideal for mosquitos among other insects, spiders, flies, and other insects of course. Many insects inhabit Maple Run Sink as insects inhabit and Mosquitos compromise a huge portion of natural wildlife in the sinkholes of Texas. Maple Run Sink is no exception.

Maple Run Sink is actually easy to access and enter due to a steep drop from the outside of the sinkhole. Bringing groups will be difficult to due to a steep drop inside the sinkhole. Going in small groups is recommended when touring Maple Run Sink.

A. L. Wade owned the entire property of what is now Goat Cave Karst Preserve where Maple Run Sink is located inside of. He used this sinkhole to store trash in during the 1960’s and 1970’s. That is where all his trash went. This sinkhole was also used as a supplementary feed for his goats.

In January 1984 a four acre cave park was set aside by developer Bill Milburn in the recently established Maple Run subdivision. (Ref: https://digital.lib.usf.edu/content/SF/S0/05/51/02/00001/K26-04653-1984-v29-n03.pdf)

The 1984 plans for the Maple Run subdivision Street and Drainage Improvements show the placement of a proposed water quality detention pond directly over an unknown “sinkhole”, and adjacent to another “sinkhole” that is Maple Run Sink. However this did not happen as Bill Milburn and the UT Grotto saved Maple Sink from destruction in 1989. The undeveloped strip of land containing Maple Run Sink was dedicated to the City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department. (Ref: https://zaraenvironmental.com/uploads/3/5/5/0/35507988/sbcaaugust2015rba.pdf)

Maple Run Sink is located at 3907 Davis Lane, Austin, Texas, US 78749. Maple Run Sink is located in Goat Cave Karst Preserve Park.