Yellow daze covers the hills of vast O’Melveny Park in San Fernando Valley
The world is yellow on yellow at O’Melveny Park in Granada Hills park and spring is definitely here, with wild sunflowers and wild mustard painting the park’s 675 acres yellow. On Monday, May 13, hikers walk through a vast field of yellow heading for Bee Canyon trail, which takes hikers through a landscape of high rock walls.
Yellow Daze—A hiker at O’Melveny Park in Granada Hills walks through a field of wild mustard on Monday, May 13, 2024. Along with morning haze, yellow wild flowers including wild mustard and sunflowers are dotting the landscape throughout the San Fernando Valley. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Yellow Daze—Wild sunflowers dot the landscape at O’Melveny Park in Granada Hills on Monday, May 13, 2024. Along with morning haze, yellow wild flowers including wild mustard and sunflowers are dotting the landscape throughout the San Fernando Valley. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Yellow Daze—Wild sunflowers and wild mustard paint the landscape yellow at O’Melveny Park in Granada Hills on Monday, May 13, 2024. Along with morning haze, yellow wild flowers including wild mustard and sunflowers are dotting the landscape throughout the San Fernando Valley. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Yellow Daze–Hikers at O’Melveny Park in Granada Hills walk through a field of wild mustard on Monday, May 13, 2024. Along with morning haze, yellow wild flowers including wild mustard and sunflowers are dotting the landscape throughout the San Fernando Valley. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
The San Fernando Valley Audubon Society calls the park “the last rest area for birds going north over the Santa Susana Mountains.” And that makes O’Melveny an “excellent migrant trap” — meaning a birding hotspot, a place that concentrates migrating birds who like the weather, the abundance of food and the hilly topography.
The park carries the name of Henry W. O’Melveny, among the first members of the California State Parks Commission in 1927. The land was known as C.J. Ranch when in 1941 it was purchased by O’Melveny’s son, attorney John O’Melveny of O’Melveny & Myers. In 1973 it became the first land protected by The Trust for Public Land and is managed by the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.
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