{"id":201033,"date":"2026-03-02T20:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201033\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T20:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:31:08","slug":"extended-spring-summer-oc-park-hours-begin-march-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/201033\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended spring-summer OC Park hours begin March 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve. | Photo courtesy of Orange County Parks \/ Facebook<\/p>\n<p>The clocks spring forward early March 8, marking the beginning of daylight saving time and OC Parks\u2019 spring-summer operating schedule.\u00a0Most regional parks close at 9 p.m. for the spring and summer. Wilderness parks close at sunset year-round.<\/p>\n<p>Spring-summer hours for the following regional parks are 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.:<\/p>\n<p>Carbon Canyon Regional Park<\/p>\n<p>Clark Regional Park<\/p>\n<p>Craig Regional Park<\/p>\n<p>Irvine Regional Park (opens at 6 a.m.)<\/p>\n<p>Laguna Niguel Regional Park<\/p>\n<p>Mason Regional Park<\/p>\n<p>Mile Square Regional Park<\/p>\n<p>Tri-City Regional Park<\/p>\n<p>Yorba Regional Park<\/p>\n<p>Wilderness parks and the following regional parks open at 7 a.m. and close at sunset year-round:<\/p>\n<p>Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park<\/p>\n<p>Caspers Wilderness Park<\/p>\n<p>Laguna Coast Wilderness Park (parking lots open at 8 a.m.)<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neill Regional Park<\/p>\n<p>Peters Canyon Regional Park \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Riley Wilderness Park<\/p>\n<p>Santiago Oaks Regional Park<\/p>\n<p>Talbert Regional Park<\/p>\n<p>Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve<\/p>\n<p>Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park<\/p>\n<p>Wieder Regional Park<\/p>\n<p>Irvine Lake will continue to operate Friday through Sunday 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Hours for OC Parks\u2019 beaches vary but are generally between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. Salt Creek Beach opens at 5 a.m. and closes at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>OC Parks facilities will remain on these operating hours until daylight saving time ends Nov. 1, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve. | Photo courtesy of Orange County Parks \/ Facebook The clocks spring forward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-201033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}