El Dorado Park East Regional Park

2010 | Best Nature Escape From the Big City (1956)

The original "El Dorado" was a semimythical city in South America, a place purported to be full of gold and precious worldly fortune, a kind of paradise on Earth. Similarly, El Dorado Nature Center in northeastern Long Beach is a local bit of paradise, although instead of gold and financial riches it promises bountiful tranquility and the riches of nature. Created in 1965, previously flat farmland near the cities of Lakewood and Los Alamitos was contoured and intensively landscaped to crea... More »