Carbon Canyon Regional Park

Carbon Canyon Regional Park is a regional park in Brea, California, that was created after the Carbon Canyon Creek was dammed. It links up with Chino Hills State Park on the east side.

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Opening hours: sunrise—sunset
Type: Park
Description: park in Orange County, California
Address: 4442 Carbon Canyon Road, Brea, CA 92823

Places of Interest

Highlights include Carbon Canyon Dam and Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.

Carbon Canyon Dam

Dam

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Carbon Canyon Dam is a dam at the northern edge of Orange County, California. The dam is approximately 4 miles east of the city of Brea and approximately 12 miles north of the city of Santa Ana.

Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

Museum

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The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and burial site of Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, and his wife Pat Nixon. Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum is situated 2 miles southeast of Carbon Canyon Regional Park.

El Dorado High School

School

El Dorado High School is a 9th–12th grade public high school located in Placentia, California. Established in 1966, El Dorado is one of four high schools in the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District, and serves the northern parts of Placentia, and Yorba Linda far eastern Fullerton, and a small portion of Brea. El Dorado High School is situated 2 miles southwest of Carbon Canyon Regional Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Olinda and Yorba Linda.

Olinda

Suburb

Olinda is a neighborhood in Brea, California, located on Carbon Canyon Road east of the rest of the city. The original village was founded in the 1890s and grew when petroleum was discovered at the adjacent Brea-Olinda Oil Field. Olinda is situated 2 miles east of Carbon Canyon Regional Park.

Yorba Linda

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Yorba Linda is a city in Orange County and a suburb of Los Angeles in Southern California. Its most famous resident was Richard Nixon. His birthplace is a National Historic Landmark, at his presidential library and museum located there.

Brea

Photo: Jonnyboyca, Public domain.

Brea is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States. The population as of the 2020 census was 47,325. It is 25 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

Carbon Canyon Regional Park

Categories: regional park and recreation area
Location: Orange County, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

33.91724° or 33° 55′ 2″ north

Longitude

-117.83408° or 117° 50′ 3″ west

Elevation

423 feet (129 metres)

Operator

Orange County Parks

Open location code

8554W588+V9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 367552169

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

5334138

Wikidata ID

Q25006932

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In Other Languages

“Carbon Canyon Regional Park” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Carbon Canyon Regional Park”

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