{"id":58846,"date":"2025-11-18T17:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/58846\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T17:55:07","slug":"americas-smallest-national-park-is-a-pocket-sized-green-oasis-less-than-an-hour-from-l-a-spanning-just-0-05-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/58846\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s \u2018Smallest National Park\u2019 Is A Pocket-Sized Green Oasis Less Than An Hour From L.A. \u2014 Spanning Just 0.05 Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"bixby knolls\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bixby-knolls-1024x575.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bixby-knolls-1024x575.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"bixby knolls\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit: @bixbyknolls via Instagram<\/p>\n<p>    Save<\/p>\n<p>When you think of a <a href=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/lassen-volcanic-national-park\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/lassen-volcanic-national-park\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_0\" data-category=\"click_internal\">National Park,<\/a> your mind probably jumps to <a href=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/general-grant-americas-christmas-tree\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/general-grant-americas-christmas-tree\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_1\" data-category=\"click_internal\">towering sequoias,<\/a> dramatic <a href=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/seven-tea-cups-california-hike\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/seven-tea-cups-california-hike\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_2\" data-category=\"click_internal\">canyon walls,<\/a> and week-long backcountry treks in the <a href=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/death-valley-moving-rocks\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/death-valley-moving-rocks\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_3\" data-category=\"click_internal\">desert<\/a> that will leave you breathless, thirsty and exhausted\u2026 Well, this quirky place is perfect to enjoy the outdoors without all that hassle.<\/p>\n<p> A \u201cnational park\u201d that could fit on your backyard      <\/p>\n<p>Located right off a busy corner (L.B. Blvd. and Roosevelt, to be precise), Bixby Knolls National Park clocks in at a whopping 0.05 acres with an official trail that\u2019s just 0.01 miles long\u2026 A <a href=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/hikes-in-los-angeles\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/hikes-in-los-angeles\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_4\" data-category=\"click_internal\">hike<\/a> you can complete in just about 15 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The park is essentially a beautifully manicured, community-run patch of land that truly is the size of a suburban front yard. It even boasts a perfectly manicured walking path, a decorative wooden bridge and a quaint waterfall mural and native Californian plants, like the Sea Cliff Buckwheat, all labeled with official-looking plaques.<\/p>\n<p> A big idea for the tiny Bixby Knolls    <\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/la\/article\/smallest-national-park-long-beach-21131513.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/la\/article\/smallest-national-park-long-beach-21131513.php\" data-action=\"text_cta_5\" data-category=\"click_non_sales\">SF Gate,<\/a> the tiny plot of land in the city\u2019s Bixby Knolls neighborhood didn\u2019t get any official federal designation. Instead, the title was given informally by Blair Cohn, executive director of the Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association.<\/p>\n<p>He clarified that the label for the formerly <a href=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/abandoned-places-los-angeles\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretlosangeles.com\/abandoned-places-los-angeles\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_6\" data-category=\"click_internal\">abandoned lot<\/a> was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, emphasizing that it wasn\u2019t intended for scouts or anyone collecting badges to parade through the space.<\/p>\n<p>The park started as a small, overgrown parcel near one of Bixby Knolls\u2019 main commercial streets. In 2021, as redevelopment funds were dwindling and the association\u2019s future was uncertain, the group decided to aim for \u201cone last hurrah.\u201d Cohn explained that they chose to go big, and gave the lot a playful new identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: @bixbyknolls via Instagram Save When you think of a National Park, your mind probably jumps to towering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-58846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58846","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=58846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}