Rain Brings New Life to Sespe Creek
By Gazette Staff Writers — Thursday, August 24th, 2023
Sespe Creek is flowing again after the weekend rains from Hurricane Hilary. The storm brought 2-inches to the valley, and 4-inches to the area mountains. The Sespe is a stream, some 61 miles long that starts at Potrero Seco in the eastern Sierra Madre Mountains, and is formed by more than 30 tributary streams of the Sierra Madre and Topatopa Mountains, before it empties into the Santa Clara River in Fillmore. The 31 miles of the creek is designated as a National Wild and Scenic River and National Scenic Waterway, and is untouched by dams or concrete channels. It is one of the last wild rivers in Southern California, and lies primarily within the southern Los Padres National Forest. |