Current Whittier Narrows Nature Center

This foot print has the building and several other out buildings and animal cages, entrance lawn, and parking lot. Four generations of local San Gabriel Valley people have come to know the Whittier Narrows Natural Area as both a wildlife sanctuary and a sanctuary for humans in the urbanizing lower San Gabriel Valley. The Whittier Narrows Natural Area has been a wildlife sanctuary since 1939. It was an Audubon site for many years until 1970, when the County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation became the operator of the natural area. It is located in the flood plain and leased by the county from the US Army Corps of Engineers.