Sand Canyon Wash is an approximately (to its longest source) tributary of
San Diego Creek
San Diego Creek is a urban waterway flowing into Upper Newport Bay in Orange County, California, United States. Its watershed covers in parts of eight cities, including Irvine, Tustin, and Costa Mesa. From its headwaters in Laguna Woods the ...
in
Orange County, California
Orange County (officially the County of Orange; often initialized O.C.) is a county (United States), county located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population ...
.
Course
Its headwaters rise in the northern
San Joaquin Hills
The San Joaquin Hills are a low mountain range of the Peninsular Ranges System, located in coastal Orange County, California.
They extend in a northwest–southeast direction, starting in the northwest in Newport Beach, California, Newport Beac ...
as two streams, Shady Canyon Creek and Bommer Canyon Creek, then flows northwest into Sand Canyon Reservoir, formed by a dam across Strawberry Valley east of the community of
Turtle Rock near Irvine. The dry creek bed continues northwest from the reservoir, turning west where it enters the city of
Irvine Irvine may refer to:
Places On Earth Antarctica
*Irvine Glacier
* Mount Irvine (Antarctica)
Australia
* Irvine Island
* Mount Irvine, New South Wales
Canada
* Irvine, Alberta
* Irvine Inlet, Nunavut
Scotland
*Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotlan ...
, flowing along the northeastern boundary of
William R. Mason Regional Park.
The creek then turns west to empty into
San Diego Creek
San Diego Creek is a urban waterway flowing into Upper Newport Bay in Orange County, California, United States. Its watershed covers in parts of eight cities, including Irvine, Tustin, and Costa Mesa. From its headwaters in Laguna Woods the ...
in its
San Joaquin Marsh section, about above where the larger creek enters
Upper Newport Bay
Upper Newport Bay (connected to Newport Harbor via "The Back Bay") is a large coastal wetland (an estuary) in Newport Beach, California, and a major stopover for birds on the Pacific Flyway. Dozens of species, including endangered ones, can be ...
.
See also
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San Diego Creek bicycle path
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References
Rivers of Orange County, California
San Joaquin Hills
Irvine, California
Rivers of Southern California
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