Gopher Problems Near Long Beach — El Dorado Park, CSULB, and Golf Courses

Long Beach is a large, diverse city with an extensive park system and several major institutional campuses that create widespread gopher pressure throughout its residential neighborhoods. El Dorado Regional Park — one of the most significant urban parks in Los Angeles County — dominates the northeastern corner of the city and drives gopher activity across a large swath of the surrounding residential area. Combined with Cal State Long Beach, multiple golf courses, and a network of neighborhood parks, gopher activity is a consistent presence in many Long Beach neighborhoods.

The Main Gopher Sources in Long Beach

El Dorado Regional Park is the largest and most significant gopher source in Long Beach. The park covers 450 acres including El Dorado East and West sections with extensive athletic fields, nature areas, a nature center with natural habitat, and the El Dorado Golf Course running through the complex. The combination of maintained irrigated turf and the nature center's preserved natural habitat makes El Dorado one of the most productive gopher environments in the LA Basin. The residential neighborhoods surrounding the park — particularly in the El Dorado Park Estates, College Park East, and Bixby Knolls areas — experience some of the most consistent gopher activity in Long Beach. The El Dorado Golf Course within the park compounds this effect significantly.

Cal State Long Beach occupies a 322-acre campus in the heart of Long Beach with extensive athletic facilities, ornamental gardens, and maintained grounds. The campus borders the El Dorado Park complex, creating an enormous contiguous zone of irrigated institutional and park land that sustains a very large gopher population. The residential neighborhoods surrounding the campus on all sides — including the University area and the streets between the campus and El Dorado Park — see high and consistent gopher activity from this combined source.

Skylinks at Long Beach Golf Course is the city's municipal golf course, with irrigated fairways that contribute additional gopher habitat to the northeastern Long Beach corridor. Municipal courses like Skylinks typically have higher gopher densities than private clubs due to more limited pest management resources.

Heartwell Park and Recreation Area covers 102 acres in central Long Beach with athletic fields and maintained turf that sustains a local gopher population affecting surrounding residential neighborhoods. The park's central location makes it a pressure source for a broad swath of the city's residential footprint.

Rancho Los Cerritos and Rancho Los Alamitos — the two historic ranch properties preserved as museums in Long Beach — maintain ornamental gardens and grounds that function as small but persistent local gopher sources for their surrounding neighborhoods in the Bixby Knolls and Los Cerritos areas.

School campuses throughout Long Beach — including Long Beach Polytechnic High School, Jordan High School, Wilson High School, and the many middle and elementary campuses in the Long Beach Unified district — all maintain irrigated athletic facilities contributing neighborhood-level gopher pressure.

The El Dorado Corridor

The most gopher-active zone in Long Beach is the corridor connecting El Dorado Regional Park, the CSULB campus, and the surrounding residential streets. Homeowners in this corridor — roughly the area between the 405 and 605 freeways in northeastern Long Beach — experience some of the highest sustained gopher pressure in the city. The combined acreage of park and campus land in this area creates a gopher reservoir large enough to continuously replenish surrounding residential yards even after treatment.

Service Areas Near Long Beach

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Call 909-599-4711 to schedule gopher control in Long Beach. We serve all Long Beach neighborhoods including the El Dorado corridor, Bixby Knolls, and areas near CSULB.