Click through the pictures below, or use this site’s “Signs” menus, to learn about how the Greenway cleans water, the Ballona watershed, its first people, and sustainable landscaping. You can also take an audio tour with Echoes Explorer Mobile app when you visit the Greenway or hear it now through the recordings on some of the interpretive signs.
If you’d like close-up view inside the fences, sign up to Volunteer.
Click below to see the Greenway featured in the “StreetsLA Tree Summit 2021: Trees + Water = Science, Projects, People” (35 mins.)
Click below to watch “Westwood Greenway:
Daylighting a Creek and Creating Open Space with Native Plants” presented by the California Native Plant Society’s Los Angeles/Santa Monica Mountains Chapter (63 mins.)
The National Wildlife Foundation certifies the Greenway as a “Wildlife Habitat” because it is helping to restore the environment’s natural balance through sustainable practices that provide animals with food, water, cover, and places to raise their young.
LOCATION
OUR HISTORY
HOW THE GREENWAY CAME ABOUT
Track the grassroots effort that saved scarce open space from becoming parking lots, revived a forgotten creek, and helped keep pollution from Ballona Creek and the Santa Monica Bay.
SUPPORTERS’ STATEMENTS
COUNCILMEMBER PAUL KORETZ
"A perfect classroom for students to observe these environmental practices and accomplish the City’s watershed protection goals and provide park space in an area that desperately needs it."
Supervisor Sheila Kuehl
"A multi-benefit project which will
provide (1) urban runoff treatment, (2) native habitat, and (3) public access via transit, bicycle, and pedestrian paths."
"The project utilizes public property to improve mobility, create recreational
activities and clean groundwater.
The Greenway will use natural and sustainable water treatment methods to remove pollutants from up to 48 million gallons of water per year."
SUPERVISOR HOLLY MITCHELL
"Students from schools all along the Expo Line from Overland Avenue Elementary School to Dorsey High School to Foshay Learning Center will be able to access the Greenway either on foot or by light rail to participate in educational programs promoting awareness of water and other environmental issues which are critical to this region. They will see storm water treatment reducing the pollution entering our ocean. They will also see a native plant garden which provides the sights and smells of a walk in the hills: birds and butterflies feeding and pollinating, the perfume of the sages, and the brilliant blue ceanothus in the spring. Many young people across the city do not have the opportunity to access this type of experience."
Natural Resources Defense Council
"This groundbreaking idea imagines . . . green space, urban runoff treatment and recreational opportunities."
California Native plant Society
“We feel that this project would offer an opportunity to create California native plant coastal sage scrub and wetland habitats which would in turn provide food and shelter for wildlife in an urban setting.”
Los Angeles Audubon Society
"A wonderful place to teach students that
urban infrastructure and nature need not be be mutually exclusive."
"A working model that demonstrates how proper engineering and thoughtful design can be used to manage run-off from stormwater, to the benefit of a natural habitat."
"We are particularly excited that the Greenway is located adjacent to the Westwood Rancho Park Station of the Expo Line. Being able to use the light rail line to bring kids from Mid-City to Santa Monica to this Greenway will be very helpful."