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A karst sinkhole named Deep Hole is located on the northwest bank of the Myakka River in the Wilderness Preserve. The sink is 135 feet (41 m) deep though no evidence of a spring was found by a 2011–2012 research team. [3] Rivers in the park support hammocks and floodplain forests.
The spring gives rise to Wakulla River which flows several miles to the south where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Sally Ward Spring and Cherokee Sink are located within the Park, while Leon Sinks Geological Area is nearby and part of the same karst system. The Park contains the Wakulla Springs Lodge, which functions as a hotel.
The river is 72 miles (116 km) long and has a drainage basin of 602 square miles (1559.2 km 2), [3] of which 314.7 square miles (815 km 2) lies in Sarasota county. [4] The last 20 miles (32 km) of the river is tidal and brackish. The Myakka River remains relatively undeveloped.
Wakulla Springs is located 14 miles (23 km) south of Tallahassee, Florida and 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Crawfordville in Wakulla County, Florida at the crossroads of State Road 61 and State Road 267. It is protected in the Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park .
The Woodville Karst Plain Project or WKPP, is a project and organization that maps the underwater cave systems underlying the Woodville Karst Plain.This plain is a 450-square-mile (1,200 km 2) area that runs from Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. to the Gulf of Mexico and includes numerous first magnitude springs, including Wakulla Springs, and the Leon Sinks Cave System, the longest underwater cave ...
Springs are identified by type: river rise (RR) is where a river emerges after flowing underground for a distance; a single spring (SS) has one underground source, but may flow through multiple rock fissures; a group spring (GS) has multiple underground sources; a sink (SK) is an opening in the Earth's surface that occurs from karst processes ...
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Deer Prairie Creek Preserve is a 6,439-acre (26.06 km 2) natural area with 70 miles (110 km) of trail in unincorporated Sarasota County, Florida, USA, around six miles (9.7 km) along the Myakka River.