OC Parks

OC Parks

Department overview
Formed	1922; 103 years ago (1922)[1]
Jurisdiction	Orange County
Headquarters	13042 Old Myford Rd Irvine, California 92602 33.4348°N 117.4705°W / 33.4348; -117.4705
Employees	200 (2020)[1]
Annual budget	US$90,018,793 (2015-16)[2]
Department executive	Stacy Blackwood, Director
Website	ocparks.com

Orange County Parks, more commonly abbreviated to OC Parks, is a government agency that maintains and oversees the public parks of Orange County, California. OC Parks is responsible for 60,000 acres (24,000 ha) of inland and coastal open space that collectively receives millions of visitors every year.^[3]

Operations

Wilderness parks

OC Parks manages several wilderness parks:^[4]

• Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, Aliso Viejo
• Ronald W. Caspers Wilderness Park, San Juan Capistrano
• Featherly Regional Park, Santa Ana
• Irvine Lake
• Irvine Ranch Open Space (a category of parks)
• Laguna Coast Wilderness Park, Laguna Beach
• Limestone Canyon Regional Park
• O'Neill Regional Park
• Thomas F. Riley Wilderness Park, Coto De Caza
• Peters Canyon Regional Park, Orange
• Santiago Oaks Regional Park, Orange
• Talbert Regional Park, Costa Mesa
• Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park
• Upper Newport Bay, Newport Beach

Urban parks

OC Parks is in charge of many manmade or partially manmade parks in urban settings:^[4]

• Carbon Canyon Regional Park, Brea
• Ralph B. Clark Regional Park, Buena Park
• Ted Craig Regional Park, Fullerton
• Irvine Regional Park, Orange
• Laguna Niguel Regional Park
• William R. Mason Regional Park, Irvine
• Mile Square Regional Park, Fountain Valley
• Tri-City Regional Park, Placentia
• Harriett M. Wieder Regional Park, Huntington Beach
• Yorba Regional Park, Anaheim

References

1. "OC PARKS". LinkedIn. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
2. "405 - OC PARKS CSA26" (PDF). OC Gov. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
3. "About Us". OC Parks. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
4. "Parks & Trails". OC Parks. Retrieved January 2, 2021.

External Links

• OC Parks website