"If you’re heading down to tonight’s Willow Gulch tour, you might see this gate as you exit the L.A. River Bike Path, aka the Lario Trail, near Wardlow Road in Long Beach.

There are quite a few great artistic gates along Southern California Waterways. Today’s post features an L.A. River gate that I think is the furthest downstream. It’s located in Long Beach, just west of the intersection of 34th Street and De Forest Avenue, less than a mile walk due west of the Wardlow Metro Blue Line Station. The gate is at the north/upstream end of the Wrigley Greenbelt, a medium-sized linear river park that runs along the river from Willow Road to Wardlow Road.

The gate was dedicated on May 3rd 2007 at the Los Angeles County Public Works’ Earth Day event. The event was presided over by County Supervisor Don Knabe and then Long Beach City Councilmember Tonia Reyes Uranga, and included native tree and shrub planting by Jordan High School Students. The native plantings have established themselves well. At a recent (April 2011) visit to the site, native California sunflower and other shrubs were in full bloom." - http://lacreekfreak.wordpress.com

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