Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve
Los Angeles / SoCal
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 1781
- Established
- 1976
parks detail
- Hook
- The state flower by the square mile — California's most reliable superbloom hillsides
- More
- In good rain years the hillsides ignite orange for miles — the 8 miles of trail exist to keep feet off the flowers, and rangers enforce it. Bloom timing swings March–April; the Jane Pinheiro center explains why picking a single poppy is both illegal and pointless.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 34.726, -118.394