Browns Canyon Wash

This article is about Brown's Creek (Los Angeles River). For Brown's Creek in Minnesota, see Brown's Creek (St. Croix River).
Browns Canyon Wash
Origin Santa Susana Mountains, California
Mouth Los Angeles River, California
Basin countries United States

Browns Canyon Wash (also known as Brown's Creek) is a 10.3-mile-long (16.6 km)[1] tributary of the Los Angeles River in the western San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County, California.

The stream begins as a free-flowing stream in the eastern Santa Susana Mountains, running adjacent to Browns Canyon Road (Brown's Canyon Road lead to one of the nike bases of the cold war). Passing under the State Route 118 freeway, it is then encased in a concrete flood control channel, traveling south through Chatsworth, Winnetka, and Canoga Park, joining the Los Angeles River just west of Mason Avenue.+ The channel walls near Winnetka were damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake.[2]

The wash features a short bicycle path on its eastern bank in Chatsworth.[3]

Crossings and tributaries

From mouth to source (year built in parentheses):[4]

  • Sherman Way (1971)
  • Valerio Street [Pedestrian Bridge]
  • Saticoy Street (1971)
  • near Arminta Street [Pedestrian Bridge]
  • Roscoe Boulevard (1971)
  • De Soto Avenue (1972)
  • Santa Susana Creek enters
  • Parthenia Street (1972)
  • Nordhoff Street (1971)
  • Railroad: Amtrak Coast Starlight, Pacific Surfliner / Metrolink Ventura County Line
  • Lassen Street (1971)
  • Devonshire Street/Canoga Avenue (1974)
  • Chatsworth Street (1972)
  • Variel Avenue (1973)
  • Rinaldi Street (1973)
  • State Route 118 offramp to De Soto Avenue (1971)
  • State Route 118 - Ronald Reagan Freeway (1971)

Coordinates: 34°11′43″N 118°34′53″W / 34.19528°N 118.58140°W[5]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 16, 2011
  2. ↑ Baker, Michael (1998-08-15). "Bids, Repairs to Begin on Creek Channels". Los Angeles Times.
  3. ↑ "Brown's Creek". Bike Paths of Los Angeles.
  4. ↑ "National Bridge Inventory Database". Retrieved 2009-08-09.
  5. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Browns Canyon Wash