Become a PEER partner with your organization; volunteer for restoration & cleanup days; or support the program financially. Find out more about our 2023 PEER program with monthly volunteer events at Fairview Park and the mouth of the Santa Ana River. Do your part to create a more coordinated, unified restoration effort to the Santa Ana River coastal lands & waters.
The Randall Preserve is located on part of the ancestral homeland and traditional territory of the Acjachemen (Juaneño) and Tongva (Gabrieliño) people. While the Banning Ranch Conservancy is focused on conservation, restoration, and public access, we pay respect to these Native Nations past, present, and future and their continuing presence in the homeland and throughout the regional diaspora.
The Randall Preserve , formerly known as Banning Ranch, includes 387 acres of lowlands and coastal bluffs located in West Newport Beach near where the Santa Ana River meets the Pacific Ocean. The land was protected Friday, December 16, 2022. Fourteen acres will remain in private ownership as an oil remainder. Over the next several years, the Randall Preserve will undergo substantial clean up and some limited restoration to convert the former oil fields into a coastal park. During this time, the land will re