Peck Road Water Conservation Park — Attraction in Arcadia

This is a nice place to escape and its quite surprising something like this exists in the middle of North El Monte. LA County still surprises me sometimes on how much funding in parks can help to promote wildlife and beauty areas of nature that can serves more than as a place to escape but for parties, for a place to walk around, to fish, and the list goes on.

This place isn't too hard to find since the front gate is a bright orange. Once you enter the gate, there are poppy's surrounding the road and a parking enough to fit quite a bit of cars. There's dirt roads that lead into the park but of course, only for park employees not for anyone else. This park is also the start of of Rio Hondo River bike trail that takes you to Whittier Narrows, and another route that takes you to Lower Azusa Rd.

The park itself is quite vast, but trail wise is only around a mile. The "lake" I believe is man-made and can sometimes vary with water levels. In the peak of summer, you can start seeing it evaporate a bit but with a little rainfall, it can go right back to normal. The trails are pretty well-marked but venturing off the trail won't amount to much since the wilderness never gets to thick to get lost. On a slow day, this place can be a quiet place to escape, to sit on a bench and dose off and read a book. On a busy day, families are here for celebrations, smaller groups are here for their lunch or to hang out, and of course kiddos litter the place making use of the trails. You will almost always see people fishing and biking around.

There are a small amount of facilities, such as a restroom and a sink. There is a bungalow for park employees.

The only reason why I gave this park a a 4-star is because it can be a bit dirty at times. With a little bit of care by all of us as park patrons, we can continue to let this park stay clean and serve as a place for not only us, but native El Monte/Arcadia...

We visit this park often, as it's very close to our neighborhood. Technically walking distance, but we usually choose to ride our bicycles over, or drive if we are taking our dog for a walk (she tires a bit more easily). There are several picnic pavilions and a restroom along the main parking area, and you can follow the boardwalk trail to the intracoastal waterway. It's about a quarter of a mile, a very easy walk for most anyone. At the end of the trail, there's a nice shaded pavilion on a wooden deck, which many people enjoy fishing from. There are some small trails going out to the mangroves and along the shore from the pavilion. If you sit still on the stairs for a moment or two, fiddler crabs seem to come out of everywhere. It's so fun to watch them. When tide is low, you can see the artificial reef balls along the coast by the deck.My only additional comment is that if you are bringing your dogs here, KEEP THEM ON A LEASH! NO excuses! This isn't the place to let them go roaming freely, and it's easy to turn a corner on the boardwalk and be right next to another citizen enjoying the park with their own dog. Follow the rules, be a responsible dog owner so we can all enjoy the park. Having your dog off-leash at this park for any reason is an extremely rude...

I recently discovered this park when my boyfriend and I picked up some to-go food, cuz I drove into this park to have our lunch. There are several picnic tables and barbecue grills. The grills were very dirty, so I would expect if anyone was to use them they would definitely have to clean them up. But besides that, there was very pretty landscape, lots of trees with some picnic tables within the pretty landscape and some on the other side below the shady trees, and you also had a view to the river wash n the bike trail. I also like the fact that there was a sheriff parked at the entrance to the park, and made me feel safe... like they were looking out for us. Like I said, I just discovered it, but hope to go back and check...