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Oak Park is an unincorporated community in Ventura County, California, United States. When developed in the Simi Hills in the late 1960s, a single road provided the only access to the community from Agoura Hills, California in neighboring Los Angeles County.
History
Oak Park has had human occupation from about 5500 B.C. to the present day. It lies within a zone including the early Millingstone Horizon and inland Chumash Indians.
Indians camped throughout the area as they collected acorns, yucca, and other food. The sites in the area include major villages, smaller camps and several rock shelters.
The location of Oak Park was originally part of Rancho Simi, a Spanish land concession in Alta California given in 1795 to Francisco Javier Pico, a soldier of the Santa Barbara company, and his two brothers, Patricio Pico and Miguel Pico by the Spanish government.
Lindero Canyon Road follows the western border-line (lindero in Spanish) of the land grant.
Throughout the 20th century, studios used the area to film movies and in particular westerns. Movies filmed locally include The Red Pony and A Walk in the Sun.
Oak Park was formed from ranchland owned by Jim and Marian Jordan, stars of the radio show Fibber McGee and Molly.
The land was purchased by Metropolitan Development Corporation in the 1960s. Homes were developed starting in the late 1960s. Kanan Road (named after a local family) was the only access road to the community, from Agoura Hills, California in neighboring Los Angeles County. As such, the community was served by police and firefighters based in the nearest Ventura County city, Thousand Oaks, 10 miles away, with L.A. County services responding when able.
In 1967 Ventura County officials who were concerned about the isolation of the community proposed a land swap with L.A. County, but they were rebuffed.
The isolation—coupled with the distance to junior and senior high schools—also drove down the property values, and homeowners found it difficult to sell their properties.
The Ventura County Board of Supervisors created a Municipal Advisory Council (MAC) in 1975 to represent the community to County agencies.
The MAC persuaded the Ventura County Board of Supervisors to trim Metropolitan Development Corp.'s initial development plan from a population of 26,000.
Today there are about 15,000 residents. All available land within Oak Park has now been developed, with the remaining vacant land owned by the Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District.
The community was initially served by the Simi Valley Unified School District, with the nearest post-elementary schools being Sinaloa Junior High (about 20 miles (32 km) away) and Royal High (about 22 (35 km) miles away).
Since the Simi Valley Unified School District had no plans to build post-elementary schools in Oak Park, the residents seceded and formed Oak Park Unified School District in June 1977.
Medea Creek Middle School started at the current location of the school district in 1980 using portable classrooms. The campus was affectionately called Bungalow Hill by students. The middle school was grades 6 - 8 with 6th graders spending morning hours at Brookside Elementary and afternoons at the middle school. The following year when Oak Park High School opened for classes, Medea Creek Middle School shared the campus. Oak Park High School's class of 1983 was the first graduating class. They were the maiden class; they were upperclassmen each year 9th through 12th grade.
In 1999 the United States Postal Service assigned Oak Park its own ZIP code, 91377.
Oak Park previously shared the ZIP code 91301 with its neighboring town of Agoura Hills
Panoramic shot of Oak Park.
Geography
Oak Park is bordered by the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreational Area on the north and east and Rancho Simi Open Space on the south. It sits within valleys in the Simi Hills capped by Simi Peak which borders the community to the north. The elevation in Oak Park varies from 960 to 2,157 feet above sea level.
The CDP has a total area of 5.29 sq mi (13.7 km2). All of the area is land and none of it is covered by water. However, there are many small creeks in the area.
The largest of these creeks are Medea Creek and Lindero Creek, which are tributaries of Malibu Creek, the only waterway that pierces the Santa Monica Mountains.
The Malibu Creek watershed covers 105 square miles
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Back on Route 66 - Bottle Tree Ranch - Eaton Canyon Falls - LeAw in the USA //Ep.48
We are living the American dream driving the Historic Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica but we are doing some detours to visit some places we like.
In this 48th episode, we get back on Route 66 and visit Elmer Long's Bottle Tree Ran and stop for a hike to see Eaton Canyon Falls.
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Elmer Long's Bottle Tree Ranch - Oro Grande, California.
A forest of 200 bottle trees along Route 66.
What does one do when left with thousands of colored glass bottles? Begin a massive recycling effort, or perhaps an obscure outdoor art gallery? Elmer Long decided on both after becoming the sole beneficiary of a massive bottle collection.
As a child, Long scoured the desert with his father, collecting everything and anything. While a younger Long took notes, his father amassed an incredible collection of glass bottles. When he passed away, Long inherited his work, as well as a loss at what to do with the strange collection. In 2000, an idea struck the famously bearded Elmer Long, and he created his first bottle tree.
Shaped like hat racks, with glass bottles of all colors and shapes angled off of them, the bottle tree ranch has now grown to 200 installations. Besides being a beautiful gallery, the hollow bottles also whirr a sweet tune when the wind passes through them. For travelers making their way across America, this collection and its curator are two treasures without equal.
Eaton Canyon is a major canyon beginning at the Eaton Saddle near Mount Markham and San Gabriel Peak in the San Gabriel Mountains in the Angeles National Forest, United States. Its drainage flows into the Rio Hondo river and then into the Los Angeles River. It is named after Judge Benjamin S. Eaton, who lived in the Fair Oaks Ranch House in 1865 not far from Eaton Creek.
The most well-known portion of the canyon is the Eaton Canyon Nature Center in Pasadena, California. The trailhead of the Mount Wilson Toll Road is in the canyon.
The Eaton Canyon Natural Area Park is located where the mountain stream debouches into the foothill wash at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. The park is administered by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation. The county administers the lower two-thirds of the area below the toll road bridge. Most of the 190 acres (0.8 km2) that comprises the natural area lie on the northern boundaries of the old Rancho San Pascual and Rancho Santa Anita on land designated for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Once the railroad gave up the land, it was opened for homesteading. The nature center is unique in the area because it houses exhibits that educate on the flora and fauna local to the San Gabriel Valley Southern California. The center was rebuilt in 1998 after the 1993 fire destroyed the previous facility.
Pasadena and parts of Altadena receive about 40% of their water from local sources. The upper third is controlled by the Water Department of the City of Pasadena.
Eaton Canyon Falls
The falls are where the Eaton Creek has a fifty-foot drop and are located north of the bridge in the part of the canyon administered by the US Forest Service. John Muir once described the waterfall as a charming little thing, with a low, sweet voice, singing like a bird, as it pours from a notch in a short ledge, some thirty or forty feet into a round mirror-pool.
Several waterfalls also exist above Eaton Fall, which are more secluded. Until 1979, there was a tunnel which allowed access, but this has been dynamited and filled in. While the upper falls were accessible decades ago, there are no longer any maintained trails. People have been injured and killed trying to make these climbs.
On July 31, 2011, a man fell to his death on the hike to the falls. Another man fell to his death one week later on August 6, 2011.
On March 22, 2013, two hikers tried to climb to the second waterfall, but decided against it mid-climb. As they made their way down, they both lost their footing and fell. One hiker, a high school senior, fell to her death, and the other was airlifted for treatment.
On June 27, 2014, the US Forest Service announced plans to close the trail to the upper falls. The trail to the upper falls was closed off on August 1, 2014. Violators caught trespassing the off-limits area will face a fine of up to $5,000 or six months in jail.
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Escondido Canyon
When in Malibu, don't miss one of the area's natural jewels with a hike to the spectacular, multi-tiered 200-foot Escondido Falls—the highest in the Santa Monica Mountains.
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past the Waterfall trail, Santa Monica Mountains
me and a friend atop a boulder at a prominent point of the waterfall trail in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, by Thousand Oaks, CA. many people know about the watefall (in my other video) but few have the skill and courage to venture past the main waterfall into the trail. If you ever come here, be prepared to hang from vines treeroots and branches, walk across fallen logs above streams, climb steep rock faces.. theres a point in the trail where I put a few stepping stones down leaning on a huge rocky bank, so you wont have to walk on the 2 foot deep water, just hang on the vines for support. you'll know what I am talking about only if you see it for yourself
Tuna Canyon Park
High above our Pacific coastline are over 1200 acres of unspoiled mountain land which links over 18,000 contiguous acres of protected open space from Topanga State Park to Las Flores Canyon. This is Tuna Canyon Park.
Rosi Dagit, Senior Conservation Biologist for the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains, leads our group of hikers is from Topanga Girl Scout Troop 6075.
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Backbone Trail downhill Sycamore Canyon Santa Monica Mountains
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Hiking the Santa Monica Mountains
This video depicts a three hour hiking excursion to Sandstone Peak. From Sandstone Peak we looped around the Mishe Mokwa Trail back to the parking lot. This is one of the most beautiful hikes in Southern California.
From Los Angeles, take the 101 Freeway North and Exit Westlake Blvd. Take Westlake Blvd (Highway 23) into the mountains. The road becomes Decker Canyon. Take Decker Canyon to West Mullholand Highway and make a right on Mullholand. Take Mullholand to Little Sycamore Canyon Road. The trailhead is off of Little Sycamore. You will see the Sandstone Peak sign in the parking lot. If you hit the Circle X Ranger Station on Little Sycamore you've driven too far.
Hiking Malibu Ventura County Santa Monica Mountains Backbone Trail
Hiking Malibu Ventura County Santa Monica Mountains Backbone Trail
Hiking Malibu Ventura County Santa Monica Mountains Backbone Trail
Hiking Malibu Ventura County Santa Monica Mountains Backbone Trail
Hiking Malibu Ventura County Santa Monica Mountains Backbone Trail
Santa Monica Mountains, Scenic Road - Highway 2 and Paradise Falls
Short Road Story along the Highway 2 with amazing views of Big Tujunga Dam.
Next stop is Santa Monica Mountains near the Stunt Road.
And the last part is a hiking trail in Wildwood Park (Thousand Oaks) with the great Paradise Falls and Lizard Rock at the top.
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Corral Canyon Park
Off Pacific Coast Highway at Dan Blocker Beach in Malibu is Corral Canyon, and the one-thousand acre Corral Canyon Park offering hikers a two and one half mile loop trail accessible from the Sara Wan Trailhead.
The trail provides spectacular ocean and mountain views. Hikers pass through coastal sage scrub, native grassland, and the riparian corridor of Corral Creek with its alder, coast live oak, California sycamore, and willow trees.
There is nominal five dollar self parking fee, also an MTA bus stop is located at the entrance to the park.
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Rocky Oaks (Santa Monica Mountains)
Wilderness Wednesday!
The Rocky Oaks Trail is a short 1 mile loop trail in the Santa Monica Mountains. We were exploring around Malibu and just happened across this park. It was lush and peaceful when we visited and we had the park completely to ourselves. It isn't remote and unfortunately you can see nearby roads (the Biggest Loser Ranch is also close by), but it's still a cute little area with a nice easy hike.
The Santa Monica Mountains Wildland Fire Resilient Landscape Cooperative
The Santa Monica Mountains Wildland Fire Resilient Landscape Cooperative: Integrating conservation and wildfire risk reduction
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35 Years of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy
Conservancy Chairwomen Linda Parks reads comments summarizing the achievement of the first 35 years of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. These comments were prepared by Chief Deputy Director Rorie Skei for our 417th meeting, held in Thousand Oaks, CA.
The Grotto Trail- Best Hike in Malibu
The Grotto Trail in the Santa Monica Mountains of Malibu is one of the best hikes in Los Angeles right now after all the recent rainfall. 6+ waterfalls, caves, grottos, lush vegetation and beautiful mountain vistas all combine for an absolutely amazing experience. Catch it soon before all the waterfalls dry up for the season!
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Paramount Ranch Hike
Take a trek through cinematic history on this easy 2.5 mile loop trail through the historic Paramount Ranch near Agoura Hills, CA. Since 1923, thousands of feature films and television shows have been shot here with the rugged peaks of the Santa Monica Mountains serving as backdrops. Today the site is administered by the National Park Service and features an old western town bordered by a valley oak savanna to the north and the imposing summit of Sugarloaf Peak rising 1,515' to the south.
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