The Arroyo Seco Offers Numerous Real Estate Options

When discussing areas of northeastern Los Angeles often one hears of the Arroyo Seco. To a native Angelino it s a common name, but the reality is very few native California know what it is. Is it a mountain, a forest of trees? Most know it is not a city, so just what is it? The Arroyo Seco is a great long canyon that extends from the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains north of Pasadena, southward along the western edge of South Pasadena. It skirts the Garvanza district, and continues south through Highland Park until it joins the Los Angeles River not far from Elysian Park.

The Arroyo Seco, as with other parts of the City of Pasadena, are sitting within a great gorge which has been formed by the depositions of eroded bedrock that has washed out of the San Gabriel Mountains for thousands of years and then deposited by various streams and brooks. Significant portions of the Arroyo Seco watershed are protected open space, ranging from the National Forest to golf courses to pas