Stoneview Nature Center
Stoneview Nature Center is a county-operated garden and educational facility in Culver City, California along the Park to Playa Trail. The nature center building and gardens are part of a “transformation of a five-acre brownfield site in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of Culver City, California.” The main building, designed by Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects, is  and features community space, a meeting/classroom, an outdoor kitchen, and bathrooms. The park, which has a focus on native California and edible plantings, includes a raised-bed Mediterranean demonstration garden, a native grass meadow, and installations by the contemporary art collective Fallen Fruit. The edible landscaping includes oranges, avocados, figs, grapes, lemons, blackberries, and blueberries, and less-familiar California native edibles including lemonade berry, coffee berry and prickly pear. Fitness equipment and workout classes are offered at the park. Stoneview is a key segment of the  Park to Playa Trail; “good views of L.A. are guaranteed on the dirt-and-paved track from Baldwin Hills to Playa del Rey.”

The center operates an apiary in partnership with HoneyLove as well as a furnishing an elaborate hotel for native bee, both as part of a public outreach campaign on the importance of pollinating insects. Stoneview was recommended by local public-radio station KCRW as an outdoor refuge during the pandemic. The land was previously a primary school campus from 1956 to 2010, and was acquired by the Baldwin Hills Regional Conservation Authority in 2011. See also
 List of nature centers in California

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Parks in Los Angeles County, California
Culver City, California
Baldwin Hills (mountain range)
Nature centers in California