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"Ballona Watershed Map". The Ballona Creek watershed totals about 130 square miles (340 square kilometers). According to a 1948 report in the Venice Evening Vanguard, "The total area drained by Ballona Creek consists of 86 square miles (220 km 2) square miles of coastal plain and 74 square miles (190 km 2) of foothills and plain range from sea level to 250 feet (76 m) and in the mountains from ...
The Lighthouse Street Bridge crossing the lagoon is a closed-spandrel bridge limited to pedestrian and bicycle traffic only. [9] The bridge, sometimes called the Ballona Lagoon Bridge , was built by Abbot Kinney as part of his Venice of California development. [ 10 ]
The Ballona Creek Bike Path (pronunciation: “Bah-yo-nuh" [4] or “Buy-yo-nah” [5]) is a 6.7-mile (10.8 km) Class I bicycle path and pedestrian route in California.The bike path follows the north bank of Ballona Creek until it reaches Santa Monica Bay at the Pacific Ocean. [6]
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Authors of a 1987 cycle-touring guide "highly recommended" a Ballona Creek Bike Path detour into the heights of this park long before Park to Playa Trail was conceived. Their directions were to "take Duquesne Avenue east across Jefferson Boulevard and proceed uphill…about one mile from the creek exit point.
The Expo Bike Path connects to the Ballona Creek Bike Path (and Park to Playa Trail) at National Boulevard in Culver City. The connection between the two paths is at the Bike Path Bridge over Ballona Creek ; the bridge originally carried the southbound lanes of National until the construction of the E Line overpass and a new four-lane National ...
Ballona estuary, 1923. Ballona is a geographic place name in the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California. Geographic place names: Ballona Creek. Ballona Creek Bike Path; Ballona Wetlands; Ballona Lagoon; Historic places: Rancho La Ballona; Ballona Road (now Washington Blvd.) La Ballona Township; La Ballona station (1870s to 1890s ...
West of Lincoln Boulevard, the dual tracks converged to a single track before crossing over Ballona Creek on a long steel bridge. Reconstruction of Ballona Creek rail crossing (1937), Culver Boulevard automobile bridge is to the left; camera is facing north toward Westchester, note "L" for Loyola Marymount University is visible on bluffs