Heisler Park
Heisler Park in Laguna Beach was named after Howard G. Heisler, a member of the Laguna Company that bought the property from the Irvine Company in 1905. Heisler organized support and provided land for Pomona College to build a Marine Laboratory in 1913. He also provided the choice lot at half price that now hosts today’s Laguna Art Museum. In 1933, he built the recently-restored Heisler Building on Coast Highway, considered one of Laguna’s three most architecturally attractive businesses. Stretching along the bluffs on Cliff Drive from Aster Street to Diver’s Cove, this oceanfront park has walking trails, gardens, a marine refuge with tide pools, picnic tables, barbecues and lawn bowling greens.
Laguna Beach, Orange County
Photographer: John Bare