Orange County has a mini Grand Canyon. Here’s a peek.

Our destination was The Sinks.
That remote hole in the ground, also known as “Orange County’s mini Grand Canyon,” is little seen by the public, with access sometimes limited to one day every two months.
But as soon as the two pickup trucks rolled out of the Augustine Staging Area, it became clear that the entire Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve was a wilderness sanctuary. It felt worlds away from the gridded concrete and congested urban bustle of Southern California.The ro