Sara Bock hiked the trails on the northern side of Inspiration Point at Will Rogers State Historic Park on Saturday. She stopped to reflect and snap photos of the charcoal-hued remnants of brush and trees.

She was close to tears, she said — both of happiness about Saturday’s long-awaited reopening of the site but also of sadness for all that was lost, inside and outside of the sprawling preserve since the Palisades fire swept through the area in January.

Bill Hamm, a park interpreter and educator, leads a guided hike as part of the official reopening of Will Rogers State Historic Park on Saturday, November 8, 2025. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)

Visitors go on guided hikes as part of the official reopening of Will Rogers State Historic Park on Saturday, November 8, 2

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