Placerita Canyon State Park
Los Angeles / SoCal
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 342
- Established
- 1949
parks detail
- Hook
- The Oak of the Golden Dream, where California's first documented gold find predated Coloma by six years
- More
- Francisco Lopez's 1842 gold find under the Oak of the Golden Dream beat Coloma by six years — it just didn't start a stampede. The nature center's raptor programs and the canyon walk to Walker Ranch make it Santa Clarita's field-trip classic; fire recovery has closed sections in recent years.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 34.377, -118.47