Topanga Creek, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"To the left, across the road, was a wall of rock; to the right, the canyon fell off to the rusty sandstone bed of Topanga Creek, hundreds of feet below."

"PILGRIM AT TOPANGA CREEK"

"Delaney sat in his office, putting the finishing touches to his latest column: PILGRIM AT TOPANGA CREEK."

"Delaney Mossbacher, the Pilgrim of Topanga Creek—he who led the least stressful existence of anybody on earth besides maybe a handful of Tibetan lamas."

"one coyote, who makes his living on the fringes of my community high in the hills above Topanga Creek and the San Fernando Valley, has learned to simply chew his way through the plastic irrigation pipes whenever he wants a drink."

"…which officials now think began along the bed of Topanga Creek just below Fernwood less than an hour ago…"

"Then they were in the bed of the big creek, Topanga Creek, and the mountain was behind them. But this wasn’t the creek Cándido had drunk from and bathed in and slept behind through all those punishing months of drought—it wasn’t even the creek he’d seen raging under the bridge earlier that day."