✨ No wildflowers this year? Catch a different sort of flower field in Paso Robles
The “Field of Light” in Paso Robles is back this time with a sister exhibition called “
Light Towers,” recently captured by Times photographer Francine Orr.
I was dazzled when I first visited the “
Field of Light” in 2019, a lifetime ago. The 58,800-plus lights, gently oscillating from green to purple to orange and back again, felt like a hidden treasure and I wasn’t the only one who felt that way. Dhaval Patel, another Angeleno visiting the exhibition, told me that his friend asked him not to tell anyone about the “Field of Light” for fear of word getting out.
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To take the truly scenic route from Malibu to Pacific Palisades, you won’t need a car. Pull on your hiking boots and head out on the Backbone Trail to experience the most spectacular and wildest parts of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. The trail’s 67½ miles travel to woodsy canyons filled with native oaks and sycamores; high points for views of the Channel Islands in one direction and the San Gabriel Mountains in the other; and 16-million-year-old rock spires that look more like Arizona than L.A. 1/5 A hiker walks near Mesa Peak along the Backbone Trail in Corral Canyon.