Elsmere Canyon, Santa Clarita, California
Website created and maintained by Stan Walker
From January of 2010
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
"Circles" on the Trail
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
Passes and Roads - The Old Road, Beale's Cut, Newhall Tunnel
The Pioneer Oil Refinery
The Newhall Oil Refinery That Never Was - Hart vs. Trumble (1928)
The Newhall Refinery (1930 - 1989)
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
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My Other Pages
Movies of the Canyons
Dry Canyon Dam and Reservoir
The Saugus to the Sea Road
Location of the canyons. Pico, Towsley/Wiley, Rice/East, and Elsmere/Whitney have parking areas and are open for public hiking.
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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All photographs, unless otherwise noted, are owned by Stan Walker
