Santiago Creek
Greenway Alliance

To create a greenway along the entire length of Santiago Creek and to preserve, restore, and enhance its ecological, scenic, historical and recreational resource      SCGA Mission Statement
Within the Cleveland National Forest, Santiago Creek and several of its tributaries have year-round flow supporting the unique natural beauty and wildlife of the Santa Ana Mountains. The goal of the Santiago Creek Greenway Alliance is the creation of a greenway and trail system which will extend this corridor of natural beauty and wildlife habitat downstream through the cities of Orange and Santa Ana.

To protect something you have to protect it every day forever. To destroy it you only have to destroy it once.

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Prop 1B Funds Now Approved for Our Trails

Last Tuesday (3/3) the County Board of Supervisors approved a distribution of the county's Prop 1B funds that included $4.9 million for the Santiago Creek Bike Trail. This is an increase from the $2.5 million allocation reported previously. The intent is that this will be used to cover extending the trail from the Prospect Collins curve (the end point of the city's Tustin to Collins trail project) to the Cannon St. Bridge.

Supervisor Bill Campbell to Provide Funding for Santiago Creek

Last year John Moore (President of SCGA) and Shirley Grindle (SCGA Advisory Board Member) met with Supervisor Bill Campbell to tell him of the efforts of SCGA and the City of Orange to construct bike and recreation trails paralleling Santiago Creek from Hart Park to Santiago Oaks Regional Park. Several months after this meeting, Supervisor Campbell called Moore and Grindle in to announce that he had $2.4 million allotted to his district and that he was going to earmark these funds for trail and greenway construction along Santiago Creek. The Alliance hopes to have these funds used for extending the trail from Collins Avenue to Cannon Street. The City of Orange is planning on constructing a bike trail from Tustin Street to Collins Avenue in the near future. With the financial assistance from Supervisor Bill Campbell, Orange will have a six-mile long bike trail on Santiago Creek from the Hart Park all the way to the former Sully-Miller property. Thank You Bill Campbell for this tremendous gift!!!

Santiago Creek Signs

You may have noticed driving around the City of Orange that Santiago Creek is now identified at all the points where a road crosses over the creek. Thanks to a member of SCGA (Yolanda Alvarez) who originally made the suggestion to place signs at all the crossings of Santiago Creek, the City of Orange Public Works has now identified the creek at all the crossings in Orange.
Santiago Creek Greenway Alliance is a 501(c)3 organization. Contributions are tax-deductible.

Maintained by RM  -  Last updated 3/6/08