Located in beautiful Newport Beach is the Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve. This Nature Preserve and Ecological Reserve represents approximately 1,000 acres of open space. The Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve surrounds the Ecological Reserve. Activities here include bird watching, walking and jogging on the trails, biking, hiking, horseback riding. Camping is also available at …
Talbert Regional Park is an expansive park divided into six unique sections located in Costa Mesa. North Talbert consists of 91.5 acres and South Talbert is about 88.5 acres. The park has six separate plant groups or zones to explore; the “Intensive Use Area”, “Border Planting”, “Coastal Strand”, “Native Grassland”, “Alluvial Woodland”, and the “Wetland Zone”. …
Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park is located just 20 minutes east of Irvine in Trabuco Canyon. It comprises approximately 2,500 acres of riparian and oak woodland canyons, rolling grassland hills, coastal sage scrub, and chaparral. The park’s features include biking trails, hiking trails, and one of Orange County’s most admired rock formations, Red Rock Canyon. There …
Peters Canyon Regional Park is a 340 acre park located in Southern California near the city of Orange. The park’s native plants are coastal sage scrub, riparian, freshwater marsh and grassland habitats. Also within the park is a 55-acre Upper Peters Canyon Reservoir which is home to many resident and migrating waterfowl that bird watchers …
The town of Julian, California is nestled in pine and oak forests just about an hour northeast of the beach loving city of San Diego. Julian is truly a step back in history with its unique distinction of the entire town being a designated California Historical Landmark. But what does that title actually mean? A …