Mayfield-Gutsch Estate, Historic estate and nature preserve in west Austin, United States.

The Mayfield-Gutsch Estate is a historic property and nature preserve covering 23 acres in west Austin with a historic cottage, botanical gardens, ponds with water lilies, and multiple walking trails. Stone walls divide the grounds into different sections, creating distinct spaces to explore.

The cottage dates from the 1870s and was bought in 1909 by Allison Mayfield, a former Texas Secretary of State. In 1922 it passed to his daughter Mary Frances and her husband Milton Gutsch, a University of Texas professor, who added porches on three sides. Mary Mayfield Gutsch left house and grounds to the City of Austin on her death in 1971, and the property joined the National Register of Historic Places on September 29, 1994.

The gardens were shaped by gardener Esteban Arredondo, who designed the landscape within the stone-walled boundaries. Visitors can still see his influence in how plants and water features are arranged throughout the property.

The cottage and gardens sit on a bluff above Lake Austin, next to Laguna Gloria. The cottage and gardens can be reserved for private events, so parts of the grounds may be closed to visitors at those times. The rock perimeter wall and garden paths are uneven underfoot.

The free-roaming peafowl descend from a pair given to the Gutsch family in 1935, so the birds have been part of the property for nearly a century. Visitors often overlook that the cottage and walled gardens can be reserved for private events.