Elsmere Canyon, Santa Clarita, California

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50 foot waterfall deep in Elsmere Canyon. This photo was taken on 5/2/2005 about 10 months after the Foothill fire of July 2004. The thick brush has not grown back yet nicely exposing the light colored basement complex under the brownish beds of the Towsley formation on the upper left.


Elsmere Canyon Pages


Source of the Elsmere Canyon name Oil History
Animal Life Plant Life
Waterfalls Caves
Miscellaneous Pictures Historic Photos
Geology and Paleontology La Puerta
Fires 2004-05 Record Rains
The Dump Were Movies Shot in Elsmere Canyon?
Los Angeles Aqueduct Early Settlements
"Tales of Elsmere Canyon" by Jerry Reynolds 1981 Plane Crash Kills 2
"The Ghost Rider of Elsmere Canyon" by Jerry Reynolds  



The Other Canyons - Oil History and Geology of the Newhall Oil District

The Pico Anticline

Pico Canyon
Wickham Canyon
Dewitt Canyon
Lyon Canyon
Towsley Canyon
Wiley Canyon
Leaming Canyon
Rice Canyon
East Canyon
Tunnel Area
Whitney Canyon

NEW ** Movies of the Canyons ** NEW


Stephen Peckham 1866 Oil Description of the Other Canyons
Jules Marcou 1876 Report on the Geology of a Portion of Southern California
1903 Claim map of the Newhall Oil Field
R. W. Walling 1934 Map of the Newhall Oil Field

Sources for all of the Canyons


General location of the canyons. Pico, Towsley/Wiley, and Elsmere/Whitney have parking areas and are open for public hiking. Visit the City of Santa Clarita map website for downloadable maps.



Santa Clarita related websites (not affiliated with me):

Santa Clarita Valley History in Pictures
Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society
Geology of the Santa Clarita Valley - by Mike Ballard
Placerita Canyon
Community Hiking Club - Santa Clarita based
Sierra Club of Santa Clarita
LAMountains.com

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