Ernest E. Debs Regional Park


Ernest E. Debs Regional Park is a large open space nature reserve and regional park in the Montecito Hills neighborhood of central-northeast Los Angeles, California.[1][2]

Park signage
View from Sycamore Grove Park to the hillside solar panels and Ernest E. Debs Regional Park in Montecito Hills.

It is named after former County Supervisor Ernest E. Debs. The park is operated by the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.[1]

Geography

Ernest E. Debs Regional Park is located in Montecito Hills, with views of the Arroyo Seco, San Gabriel Mountains, and Downtown Los Angeles. The park provides several miles of hiking and cycling trails. Access is from Griffin Avenue at Avenue 43, and off Monterey Road.[1]

History

In 1949, the City of Los Angeles began acquiring land to develop a park. Until 1963, the City continued to acquire additional parcels. The park was named the Rose Hill Park and the land remained open space and undeveloped. In 1968, the City of Los Angeles leased the land to the County of Los Angeles for a twenty-five years, with an agreement that the area would be developed into a regional park. When the land was returned to the City in 1994, the County had invested $900,000 into park improvements, and renamed the park the Ernest E. Debs Regional Park (in recognition of the former County Supervisor). [3]

Ecology

The park contains 282 acres (1.14 km2) of native California Walnut (Juglans californica) and California oak woodlands (Interior live oak (Quercus wislizeni) habitats.

Ernest E. Debs Regional Park contains the Audubon Center at Debs Park.[1][4] The Audubon Center building was the first carbon-neutral building constructed in the United States.[5] The center provides nature education programs (all ages) and native plant restoration projects.[6]

See also

References
  1. L.A. Rec. & Parks — Debs Regional Park
  2. Location of the park as shown on the Mapping L.A. website
  3. "About the Park". Debspark.org. Debs Park Advisory Board. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  4. Debs—Audubon Archived 2012-03-09 at the Wayback Machine, accessed April 12, 2012
  5. Audubon California, "A truly green building" Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, accessed July 2, 2014
  6. Debs—Green Programs Archived 2012-03-10 at the Wayback Machine accessed April 12, 2012


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