Editor’s Note: This is part of a monthly feature on notable regional parks in Orange County, which is rich with places to get outside and have fun with the family and explore nature.
It is hard to miss the sprawling Crown Valley Park sign that spans the two-lane entrance.
And then there are the green soccer fields, a community center, an aquatics center, a playground and — in the summer — a children’s splash area.
Four-year-old Wesley Chu of Irvine explores mosaic flag tiles at the Niguel Botanical Preserve inside Crown Valley Park in Laguna Niguel on Saturday, May 3, 2025. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Coco takes in the calming sights and scents of the Rose Garden at Crown Valley Park’s Niguel Botanical Preserve on Saturday, May 3, 2025. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) An orange protea blooms in the Niguel Botanical Preserve inside Crown Valley Park in Laguna Niguel on Saturday, May 3, 2025. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) An eye-catching fire stick succulent spices up the walking path inside Crown Valley Park’s Niguel Botanical Preserve on Saturday, May 3, 2025. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Toni Tejeda poses with his mom, Rosalio Tejeda in the Rose Garden of Crown Valley Park’s Niguel Botanical Preserve on Saturday, May 3, 2025. Toni Tejeda grows roses at his Corona home. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Jazz-time jade, a soft succulent, adds pops of purple in Crown Valley Park’s Niguel Botanical Preserve on Saturday, May 3, 2025. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)But unless you know where to look, you might not notice Crown Valley Park’s pièce de résistance: the Niguel Botanical Preserve — 18 tucked-away acres of soothing, colorful, enveloping Mediterranean-based plants and trees for the public’s enjoyment.
Rose DeSimone of Dana Point recently introduced her best friend and walking buddy, Nancy Lovelady, to the garden’s hidden “magic.”
“Even people who go to the park don’t look up the hill and see it,” she said, despite the oasis’s location in the middle of Laguna Niguel.
The park has been sprouting plants since 1981 when it was a community vegetable garden, said long-time resident and preserve board secretary Linda Purrington.
In 1984, community members ceremonially planted a single flame tree on the barren hillside. The tree, named for its flaming red canopy of flowers, was the first of many trees to come.
Then in 1987 came the Girl Scouts’ Tree Grove — jacaranda, bougainvillea, pine, oak and other trees planted by the Aliso Viejo and Laguna Niguel Girl Scouts in celebration of their 75th anniversary, Purrington said.
Genna Pfeuffer enjoys a morning with her family, including 4-month-old daughter Morgan, at the “Sprayground,” a children’s water area at Crown Valley Park in Laguna Niguel on Sunday, June 29, 2025. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Jenny Teitcher of Irvine shares a happy moment with her daughter, Hallie, 5, as they play in Crown Valley Park’s “Sprayground,” on Sunday, June 29, 2025. She and her family were at the park one year ago but the mood was different. It was the day before Teitcher started chemotherapy for breast cancer. Now that she has completed it, the day “feels more celebratory,” she said.(Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Ikayla Williams, 1, decides to sit this one out at Crown Valley Park’s “Sprayground,” where her older sister plays in the water on Sunday, June 29, 2025. Isabel Hernandez, their mother, was resting nearby. She had a big night ahead: she was scheduled to deliver her new baby that evening. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)Hence then, the article about discover laguna niguel s hidden botanical preserve and crown valley park was published today ( ) and is available on The Orange County Register ( Middle East ) The editorial team at PressBee has edited and verified it, and it may have been modified, fully republished, or quoted. You can read and follow the updates of this news or article from its original source.
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