The canyon's main stream, Bouquet Creek, begins in the Sierra Pelona Mountains, near Leona Valley.
The two-lane Bouquet Canyon Road follows the stream from Leona Valley to the Saugus neighborhood in the city of Santa Clarita, where it becomes a major thoroughfare.
The name "Bouquet" is the name of the Californian historic ranch established upland from the crossing of Bouquet Canyon Road and 'Newhall' Ranch Road, and founded by a French vacher who landed in California off a Spanish ship.
Buque is Spanish for "ship" and bouquet derives from the ranch's French origins.
[1][2] Bouquet Ranch is the only section of historic St. Francis ranch that was legally parceled off and continued under the terms of the Protocol of Querétaro, specified in the Californian Constitution, before agents of the Northeastern Establishment were sent West to take control of lands and cities in the wake of the American Civil War.