SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – On Monday, the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County announced the acquisition of Steelhead Lookout, extending protection for the entire length of Arroyo Hondo Creek. The ...

Arroyo Hondo Preserve manager John Warner points out new areas being planted with natives and study plots that are being set up to test different methods of caring for them. (Ray Ford / Noozhawk photo ...

Search and rescue team members practice rappelling techniques at Arroyo Hondo Bridge. Credit: RLC Photography Members of the Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue (SAR) team spent Sunday training on ...

Mike Hodgson [email protected] May 9, 2022 May 9, 2022 Updated May 17, 2022 When the Alisal fire swept across the Gaviota Coast last October, the 782-acre Arroyo Hondo Preserve — a canyon ...

Sometimes the things that are easiest to see are the easiest to miss. Take the Arroyo Hondo Preserve, a 782-acre park sprawling alongside the US 101 North. The preserve protects a beautiful riparian ...

Sep. 19—Carl Gable has used the Arroyo Hondo area as an outlet for exploration for the past two decades. While mountain biking on a network of legacy logging roads or hiking off trail with friends, ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Gaviota, CA – [March 7,2025] – In a significant conservation effort, over 200 critically endangered Southern California ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – Members of the Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue (SAR) Team were using the Arroyo Hondo bridge for training on Sunday. The 100-foot-tall bridge near El Capitan ...

In 1971, a team of excavators working at the Arroyo Hondo Pueblo site south of Santa Fe found a small pottery jar about the size of a fist in the ruins of a collapsed roof. After dusting off the lid, ...

Spanish colonial land grant mixes with real estate to form legal limbo Fernando Martinez’s family has lived on the Arroyo Hondo Land Grant for more than two centuries, passing property from generation ...

Hikes range from easy to strenuous in Arroyo Hondo, a new preserve sometimes called “a little Yosemite” because of its steep-walled gorge. The preserve, 30 miles north of Santa Barbara, rises 3,000 ...