Take a winter hike with the Los Angeles Times and Zócalo Public Square

Happy caller year! I’m Jaclyn Cosgrove, an outdoors newsman astatine the L.A. Times.

The deluge of rainfall and snowfall has paused, and the prima is retired successful Los Angeles. It’s a beauteous clip for a wintertime hike successful L.A. County.

I’d emotion for you to articulation maine and Times wellness writer Deborah Vankin, alongside our friends astatine Zócalo Public Square, astatine 9 a.m. Jan. 31 arsenic we hike done Placerita Canyon Natural Area, an east-west canyon eastbound of Santa Clarita with lush oak woodland, chaparral and a seasonal creek.

We volition commencement our trek with a gentle stroll to the Oak of the Golden Dream, wherever the archetypal authenticated golden find by colonizers took spot successful California successful 1842.

Then Vankin and I volition pb 40 hikers on Canyon Trail, which volition beryllium 3.6 miles circular trip. The hike includes an country wherever earthy “white oil” bubbles up from the earth, which locals reportedly utilized to cod to capable their Ford Model T substance tanks.

Parking is escaped and easy. We volition conscionable successful beforehand of the Placerita Canyon Nature Center (19152 Placerita Canyon Road successful Newhall).

We volition person h2o bottles and snacks for attendees, but you’re besides invited to bring your own. You indispensable beryllium 18 oregon older and volition beryllium required to motion a waiver anterior to attending. (Please see arriving 15 minutes aboriginal to permission clip for waiver signing.)

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Note: The hike volition beryllium rescheduled if rainfall is successful the forecast.