Topics
- 2010 Standards
- Aesthetic Barriers
- Awards
- Blue Star Memorial Highways
- Classified Landscaped Freeways
- Community ID
- Construction Inspection
- Context Sensitive Solutions
- Erosion Control Toolbox
- Estimating
- Gateway Monuments
- Main Streets
- Mission Bells
- New Product Review
- PS&E Guide
- Publications
- Research
- Roadside Toolbox
- Safety Roadside Rest Area System
- Scenic Highways
- Transportation Art
- Visual Impact Assessment Outlines
- VIA Training
- Water Conservation
- Webinars
Welcome to the Landscape Architecture Program
Landscape Architecture Program
1120 N Street, MS 28
Sacramento, CA 95814
Composed of a broad range of skilled professionals, the Landscape Architecture Program provides the expertise necessary to help implement Caltrans' mission of improving mobility across California. The scope of our work within Caltrans is extensive, including multi-modal transportation and facility design, visual impact assessments, aesthetics, mitigation, roadside management, resource conservation, regional planning, site planning and development, and sustainable design.
News
| Recently, while urging Congress to put politics aside and work on fixing the Highway Trust Fund so that it can continue to fund critical infrastructure projects – projects that put many professionals back to work, Barack Obama stated " investing in rebuilding our infrastructure -- that doesn't just put construction workers back to work, that puts engineers back to work, that puts landscape architects back to work, it puts folks who are manufacturing concrete or steel back to work. " Including Landscape Architects in the White House vocabulary is significant. It’s not by chance that the President relates today’s federal highway programs with landscape architects. It’s due to DOT LAs over many years elevating the stature of our profession in which we continue to provide quality of life design and planning services. |  |
| Congratulations to Kristen Langager and Katherine Brown in the District 5 Landscape Architecture Office who received their Transportation Landscape Architecture (TLA) Curriculum Certification for Landscape Associate Intermediate Proficiencies. Presenting the certificates in District 5 were the District Landscape Architect Dennis Reeves and Principal Landscape Architect Keith Robinson from the HQ Landscape Architecture Program. TLA Certification entails comprehensive career planning and successful completion of courses in seven core topic areas. |   |
| Congratulations to District 6 Landscape Architecture Office’s Gloria Ramirez and Rick Cole as winners of this year’s 2014 Excellence in Transportation Awards Program, Stewardship of the Environment category for their project, the Philip S. Raine Safety Roadside Rest Area (SRRA). Gloria and Rick worked in partnership with others in their district, Corby Kilmer in District 5, HQ Division of Engineering Services, HQ LAP and others to develop the SRRA on SR 99 in District 6 north of Tipton. |  |
| Caltrans HQ Landscape Architecture Program partnered with other Project Delivery functions and Maintenance and Operations, and Planning and Modal Programs to update Main Street, California - A Guide for Improving Community and Transportation Vitality. |
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