September 6, 2021
Sage Ranch Park
In my post last week about seeing the rocket test stands at the Santa Susana Field Lab, I mentioned that I'd attempted to photograph them from the east at Sage Ranch Park a few years earlier. The park is an old ranch to the east of the lab with interesting rock formations and does have some vistas towards the north part of the lab, but the southern part of the lab, where the rocket tests were conducted, were blocked by a ridge. I ended up getting lost getting to the park and ended up driving over Box Canyon and past the remains of Spahn Ranch where the Manson Family hung out while murdering folk(it's across from a church now), and had to double back before I arrived at the parking lot. It's a short hike up the hill to the ranch and the loop trail that passes by most of the rock formations and some really nice views of Simi Valley as well as the interior of the northern portion of the lab. After leaving Sage Ranch, I headed down to Chatsworth to the office of the successor company of Rocketdyne where they have one of the F-1(first stage of the Saturn-V) rocket engines out in front.
Read MoreIn my post last week about seeing the rocket test stands at the Santa Susana Field Lab, I mentioned that I'd attempted to photograph them from the east at Sage Ranch Park a few years earlier. The park is an old ranch to the east of the lab with interesting rock formations and does have some vistas towards the north part of the lab, but the southern part of the lab, where the rocket tests were conducted, were blocked by a ridge. I ended up getting lost getting to the park and ended up driving over Box Canyon and past the remains of Spahn Ranch where the Manson Family hung out while murdering folk(it's across from a church now), and had to double back before I arrived at the parking lot. It's a short hike up the hill to the ranch and the loop trail that passes by most of the rock formations and some really nice views of Simi Valley as well as the interior of the northern portion of the lab. After leaving Sage Ranch, I headed down to Chatsworth to the office of the successor company of Rocketdyne where they have one of the F-1(first stage of the Saturn-V) rocket engines out in front.
