On Martin Luther King Day I decided to take a walk in the Lower Arroyo Seco park. Unlike Brookside Park (about a mile or so north) where the Rose Bowl is located, the Lower Arroyo Seco park is relatively wild and natural. Well, ‘natural’ now that it has at least been partially restored.
In the last decade or so native trees and shrubs have been planted alongside the concrete waterway that runs through it.
Before the water control channel and the Devil’s Gate dam were built, every few years the whole Arroyo Seco would flood and wash away the homes built there. Homes can no longer be built right at the bottom of the arroyo in Pasadena, although there are homes all along the Arroyo downstream in Highland Park. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals stands on the Eastern rim of the Arroyo far above the flood zone.
So I took some photos of the Colorado Street bridge and other sights along the way, including one photograph of the reflection of a 134 Freeway bridge in a pool behind a small dam with no name–not the Devil’s Gate dam.
