Chino Hills State Park

About Chino Hills State Park

The 12,452 acres include rolling grassy hills that stretch nearly 31 miles from the Santa Ana Mountains to the Whittier Hills.

Chino Hills is a vital natural area that is essential for the survival of many species of animals. It is also a place where people can escape the pressures of urban life and find peace and solitude in the natural environment.

Visitors can camp, walk, ride a horse or ride a bike for a few days or camp in one of the park's facilities. These facilities include hiking, horse riding, fishing, kayaking, canoeing, climbing and coral fishing. It also offers a variety of wildlife and native plant watching activities, as well as hiking and camping.

Most of the trails are reusable, but some are only for easy use, such as trails for kayaking, canoeing, fishing, swimming and other activities.

Vehicles may not drive on the roads or in the hinterland, but vehicles may drive on foot, by bicycle, on horseback and / or on foot into and out of the park.

The fire season usually lasts from May to September, but it can change; for more information visit the ranger. Smoking is prohibited due to the high risk of fire and designated campsite fireplaces are allowed.

Weapons of all kinds are prohibited in the park, except firearms, shotguns, rifles, handguns and shotguns with a high-capacity magazine.

For safety, stay on designated trails and do not walk alone, and watch out for wildlife, especially rattlesnakes. Animals, plants, stones, dirt and artifacts are protected by law and may not be disturbed, collected or collected.

Dogs must always be kept on a leash and not taken on or off the roads of the hinterland. Dogs are not allowed on the gentle slopes of Chino Hills State Park or any other national park.

Dogs are not allowed anywhere else, and pets may not be left alone at any time, and any violation of this posted order may result in a citation.

If there is more than half an inch of rain, the park will be closed on Saturday, June 4, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sunday, July 1, 2017, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The park is closed even in times of extreme fire danger, and the use of this time causes severe weathering of paths and roads and makes hiking, biking and horseback riding dangerous.

The park stretches from 430 feet to 1,781 feet and stretches from the Whittier and Chino Fault, which converges to the northern end of the Southern California peninsula. Stretching north and south of Puente and Chinos Hills, the park is the northern end of a peninsula in southern Los Angeles County, California, and is one of only a handful of state parks in the United States with a total area of more than 1.5 million square miles. The Puentes andChino Hills are composed of sedimentary rock from the Puenta Formation, which was deposited five to fifteen million years ago. This formation interrupts the generally flat Los California Basin with rolling hills, mountains and canyons.

The formation has been linked to oil resources exploited and developed by oil companies such as ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Shell and Chevron Corp., as well as other oil and gas companies.

Within the formation there are alluvial deposits that keep the winter rain away from the hills and mountains. Chino Hills State Park is a great place to see many of the wildlife native to Southern California.

Coyotes, deer, bobcats and other mammals are often seen in woodland, bushland and grassland.

Red-tailed hawks, turkeys and vultures hover over the park bees, as well as many other animal species. Visitors with good ears and sharp eyes will get to see and hear the many songbird species.

Some animals, including the least known bell vireo, the red-nosed virgin and many other birds, are considered rare, threatened or endangered.

The local variety of native plants and animals is abundant here in the Southern California Basin. In fact, there are several different types of vegetation in Chino Hills. Perhaps this diversity is partly due to the abundance of cattail, a plant native to California. Within the park's brook zone, the CATTail population provides habitat for a variety of wildlife, including the red and blackbird.

A variety of plant and animal species, such as the red and blackbird, as well as birds of prey, reptiles and amphibians live in round streams - depending on the season.

The shore provides shelter and food for numerous animals and breeding birds, and many breeding birds, as migratory birds from Central and South America come to the river's habitat to raise their young.

The walnut forest is an important and rare plant community that is preserved within the park. Southern California black walnut trees connect with living oaks, which often form forests and streams on the northern slopes to form a forest stream.

Several hundred acres are under protection within Chino Hills State Park, but thousands of acres are in protected areas. Some of them still exist in the park, some of them are still there, like several hundred hectares on the north side of the stream.

Tecat cypresses are a special plant community that is found only in a few places in the United States. Some of them are in Coal Canyon, which borders a large ecological reserve managed by the California Department of Fish and Game.

Many California animal species depend on macchia chaparral communities for survival, and many people have used them for centuries. Although these communities have disappeared with the advancing urban development, they are part of the biological resources protected in the park. The mixed community, dominated by red sumac and toys, includes many species of trees, grasses, shrubs and other plants, as well as a variety of animals.

After contact with Europe, the Gabrielino Indians, who lived in the catchment area of the Santa Ana River, founded a small village where they collected acorns, elderflower, walnuts and other seeds.

After the Spaniards founded the Mission of San Gabriel in 1771, missionary children grazed on the hills of Chino for many years. During the Mexican Republic, the hills were used to graze the surrounding Mexican ranchos, and the land was used for pastoral farming until Mexico ceded California to the United States in 1848.

Private land purchases began in the 1870s and continued into the 1890s, and in 1948 Rolling M Ranch was established on an area of 1,720 hectares. The land was leased to nearby landowners to graze and raise cattle, but no oil production or production took place in Chino Hills State Park, except for a few water holes.

In 1977, the California Legislature passed a resolution directing California State Parks to conduct a study of the potential of oil and gas exploration in Chino Hills State Park. Local civic groups, Hills for Everybody, worked closely with California's national parks and legislature to develop a plan for developing a public-private partnership between state parks and local communities in the region.

In 1984, the state Parks and Recreation Commission officially declared the area a unit of the state's parking system. The park then extended to its present area to the north, south, east, west and east of Chino Hills State Park and the San Gabriel Valley.