Twin Lakes (site)

USA / California / Calabasas /

reservoir, 1920s construction

Two artificial lakes created around 1920 by the construction of two masonary dams, the upper (smaller) dam on Devil Creek and the lower dam on Brown's Creek.
The lower, deeper reservoir has completely silted up, so that where the lake was once about 30 feet deep, there is just a muddy marshland, densely populated with cottonwood, willow, and various riparian undergrowth.

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Coordinates: 34°16'39"N 118°35'37"W

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GPSer1

Twin Lakes (Closed) Twin Lakes Park was a boating and fishing resort in the foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains, north of Chatsworth. In the 1920s and 30s, there were a pair of lakes with Mayan-themed lodges and home lots for sale. Remnants of the dams can still be found in the arroyos around the community of Twin Lakes, north of the Simi Valley Freeway between Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Canoga Avenue.

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