Parma Park
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34°27′01″N 119°40′46″W / 34.45033888°N 119.67950555°W
Parma Park is a park located in Santa Barbara, California.
The park is situated on State Route 192 (Stanwood Drive) about one mile west of its junction with State Route 144. Highway 192 is the main foothill bypass of Santa Barbara, and goes past the now underground Sheffield Reservoir. The park itself is located in chaparral and oak-covered hills. It has picnic tables, hiking trails, and horse trails.
The park is also the major landing zone for hang gliders and paragliders launching from Gibraltar Road.
The majority of the park was burned in the Montecito Tea Fire.
Parma Park is characterized by its diverse array of native plant communities, creeks, aquatic habitat, geology, and steep terrain. Native plant communities include chaparral (ridges/slopes of Ridge Trail), coastal sage scrub (upper Creek Trail), grassland (scattered adjacent to Plateau and eastern Ridge trails), riparian forest (canyons along creeks), scrub oak (north-facing slope of Ridge Trail) and oak woodland (north-facing slopes of Stanwood and Creek trails). Exotic non-native plant species also occur in stands or scattered through native plant communities. There are almost three miles of streambed including Coyote Creek, along the eastern edge of the park, and the upper tributaries of Sycamore Creek that converge south of the picnic area and exit the park through a stone arch culvert (built in 1919) on Stanwood Drive.