Rancho Palos Verdes, California, is a suburban city south of Los Angeles.
Part of the city overlooks the Pacific Ocean and Santa Catalina Island-- twenty-six miles away.
This canyon is accessed from Ladera Linda Community Park. It's off the Quartz Trail, not far from home here in Rancho Palos Verdes. You can go much farther than 1/3 mile by taking a series of trails.
There are sixty to eighty individuals who hike each Thursday night from the corner of Silver Spur and Hawthorne Blvd. The trails that surround this urban area go into canyons, on to bluff tops, or uphill. All of the trails take us to places where city life is easily forgotten.