![]() ![]() This stand is a holdover from a Christmas-tree farm that was operated before the park opened in 1975. On closer inspection, you’ll discover that the trees are Monterey pines, native to California but not to this area. The Hike: From the parking area, walk back to the entrance station, and you’ll spot the signed trail in a stand of pine just east of the park entrance. Drive 4 miles east on Lambert (which changes to Carbon Canyon Road east of Valencia Avenue) to the park entrance. Rewarding the hiker at trail’s end is a small, shady redwood grove.įor more information about Carbon Canyon Regional Park, call (714) 996-5252.ĭirections to trail head: From California 57 in Brea, exit on Lambert Road. At the park entrance station, you can pick up an interpretive pamphlet, which is keyed to numbered posts along the nature trail and details points and plants of interest.ĭuring the summer months, early morning and late afternoon are the most comfortable times to hit the Carbon Canyon Nature Trail. A 1-mile nature trail leads creek-side through an interesting mixture of native and foreign flora. The undeveloped part of Carbon Canyon Regional Park is a narrow corridor along Carbon Canyon Creek. Olinda boomed until the 1940s when the oil fields began to play out. “Big Train,” as the hurler was known, pitched for the Washington Senators and led the American League in strikeouts each year from 1912 to 1919. At the end of the tracks was the oil town of Olinda (incidentally, the boyhood home of baseball pitcher Walter Johnson. Santa Fe Railroad tracks were extended to the mouth of Carbon Canyon to haul out the oil. The name Carbon was applied to the canyon because of the many dried-up oil seeps in evidence. His company and several others drilled the foothills of Orange County. Doheny, soon to become one of Los Angeles’ leading boosters, discovered oil in the area in 1896. But it was another boom-an oil boom-that put Carbon Canyon on the map. ![]()
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