Tour at the North Campus Open Space

Come take a walk around the North Campus Open Space and learn about native plants and animals with a trained Nature Guide.

UCSB's North Campus Open Space (NCOS) comprises 136 acres of upland and wetland habitats contiguous with and augmenting the greater Elwood-Devereux Open Space. The project has restored wetland and associated upland habitats that existed before the area was converted to the Ocean Meadows golf course in the 1960s, which filled in the historic upper arms of Devereux Slough with soil from the surrounding uplands. The NCOS restoration project began in 2017 with a fine scale grading of the site in order to re-create the salt marsh and use the excavated soil to rebuild the upland habitats.

Snowy Egret foraging in the Devereux Slough at NCOS.

Skipper butterfly on western sea purslane.

Virginia Rail at Phelps Creek on NCOS.