Everything about Rattlesnake Canyon Santa Barbara totally explained
Rattlesnake Canyon stretches from
Skofield Park into the Santa Ynez mountains. Its name comes from its serpentine shape and curves, not rattlesnake occupation.
History
In the 1790s, the
Santa Barbara Mission received water through a ditch in Mission Creek. Through Las Canoas (The Flumes), water was funneled from Rattlesnake Canyon to into Mission Creek. The Chumash tribes helped dig the channel and build the flumes. In 1808, to build a more permanent structure, dams were built by Mexican artisans on Mission Creek and in Rattlesnake Canyon. Only remnants of the dam still exist, and the resivoir has been filled with sediment from the creek.
Later, in the 1920s, the entire canyon was owned by Ray Skofield, a wealthy New Yorker who had moved to Santa Barbara. His son Hobart Skofield planted many pines in the canyon in the early 1930s. In the
Coyote Fire the trees burned down, but were replanted in 1966 by the
Sierra Club. In 1970, Hobart Skofield sold the upper of the canyon for $150,000, less than half of its value, to be made into a wilderness park, the Rattlesnake Canyon Wilderness Area.
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