The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, 127 acres, is an arboretum, botanical garden, and historical site nestled into hills near the San Gabriel Mountains in Arcadia, California, United States. Open daily, it only closes on Christmas Day.
Mt Wilson seen from the main lawn near the entrance. Jacaranda mimosifolia, Golden Medallion (Cassia leptophylla), Afrocarpus falcatus, and Ficus macrocarpa (Moreton Bay Fig) trees nearby.
Looking north across Baldwin Lake at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden. North shore lined with California native fan palm trees (Washingtonia filifera) and Mexican fan palm trees (Washingtonia robusta)..
Plumeria blossoms on Tallac knoll
Los Angeles County Arboretum, view of fountain
Lucky Baldwin
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Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin was "one of the greatest pioneers" of California business, an investor, and real estate speculator during the second half of the 19th century. He earned the nickname "Lucky" Baldwin due to his extraordinary good fortune in a number of business deals. He built the luxury Baldwin Hotel and Theatre in San Francisco and bought vast tracts of land in Southern California, where a number of places and neighborhoods are named after him.
Indian attack on the Baldwin Party near Salt Lake City in 1853, as pictured by the artist Cross, from Lucky Baldwin's description. Image from C.B. Glasscock's 1933 biography Lucky Baldwin: The Story of an Unconventional Success.
Baldwin's Hotel and Theatre (built in 1876, burned down in 1898)
Sheep at Baldwins Ranch (1903)