The Willow Springs Wetlands Restoration Project opened in October 2017. The project restored 11 acres of a 48-acre degraded site into wetlands that highlight the pivotal role they played in the establishment of the City of Long Beach in the late 1800s by preserving the site's history and unique topography.
The Park site sits atop the Cherry Hill Fault, a region of the Newport/Inglewood Fault, which lifts the land 4 millimeters/year, created topographic contours in the Park that were preserved and used to create a unique park user experience, unlike any other in Long Beach’s park system.
Visitors discover a walking loop through a series of water-capturing bioswales that flow to one acre of restored seasonal wetlands and 10 acres of habitat with native plants and trees. They also see a constructed spring that mimics the original artesian spring that provided water to early Long Beach, a water retention basin that cleans and diverts water to be reused on-site, and an outdoor environmental education classroom.
Longview Point at Willow Springs Park is located on the west side of Orange Avenue between Willow and Spring Streets. The four-acre site is at the highest point of the Willow Springs property and provides 360-degree views of the Long Beach skyline, the Port of Long Beach, Rancho Palos Verde, and the Los Angeles Basin and San Gabriel Mountains.
Park ranger touring with non-binary children summer camp.
2024 Loiter Galleries, Long Beach installation
2014 Tarble Art Center Eastern Illinois University
Altar elements from the Black Girl Altar Project/ City of Altars
Sonya Taylor, guest photo documentation of a conversation with the Earth Keeper, 2023, and Oasis in the Woods, 2023.
Grandmother's circle clothes line.
