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Crown Valley Park, visited by about 240,000 people per year, has the city's main public sports facilities. [75] Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, which borders Laguna Niguel on the west, consists of over 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) of canyons, grasslands and riparian forests along Aliso Creek. [76]
The Salt Creek watershed was shaped by seismic uplift of the San Joaquin Hills starting about 1.2 million years ago. Sulphur Creek, which now flows northwest into Aliso Creek, may have once flowed down what is now the Arroyo Salada channel into Salt Creek, but at some point in geologic time was captured to the north and resultantly makes a sharp turn north of what is now Crown Valley Parkway ...
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MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. [ 1 ] MapQuest's competitors include Apple Maps , Here , and Google Maps .
The former Overland Emigrant Trail, which was used by travelers from points east to the California gold fields, crosses the present day SR 49 near Wolf Creek. [50] Empire Mine was in constant operation from 1850 to the late 1950s. [51] Gold Hill in Grass Valley was the site of one of the first discoveries of quartz gold in California. [52]
From the junction with SR 147, through the park and including the gap on SR 44, to its terminus at I-5, SR 89 is part of the Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway, a National Scenic Byway. [15] The segment of SR 89 from I-80 in Truckee to SR 49 through Sattley also forms part of the Yuba-Donner Scenic Byway , a National Forest Scenic Byway .
Old Woman Springs Ridge in the high desert, Johnson Valley, California Depending on how the boundaries of the Mojave and the Colorado Desert region are defined, the High Desert either includes the entire California portion of the Mojave Desert (using a smaller geographic designation than its ecoregion) or the northern portion of the California desert (using a larger geographic designation ...
A notable accident in 2003 involved a pickup truck driven by an unlicensed driver leaving the roadway and plunging into the California Aqueduct, killing four occupants of the vehicle and leaving the sole survivor quadriplegic. [2] The State of California paid a $10 million settlement to the victims' family. [3]