Hiking Calendar

FROM THE SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY Flier: https://mrca.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ULART_Flyer.pdf 3rd in a series of 4 meetings The Upper Los Angeles River & Tributaries Revitalization Plan will kick off informational community meetings and provide an opportunity to provide feedback toward reimagining your river, creeks, and streams. We will begin a series of four meetings throughout the upper […]

Volunteers will be working with individuals from the National Park Service and the Santa Monica Mtns Fund to repair trails burned in the Woolsey Fire of 2018. After the fire soils no longer held together by plant roots covered up trails throughout Zuma Canyon. The recent rains eroded many trails and allowed for plant regrowth to hide […]

FROM THE SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY Flier: https://mrca.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ULART_Flyer.pdf 4th in a series of 4 meetings The Upper Los Angeles River & Tributaries Revitalization Plan will kick off informational community meetings and provide an opportunity to provide feedback toward reimagining your river, creeks, and streams. We will begin a series of four meetings throughout the upper […]

Volunteers will be working with individuals from the National Park Service and the Santa Monica Mtns Fund to repair trails burned in the Woolsey Fire of 2018. After the fire, soil and rock no longer held together by plant roots allowed many trails to become much more narrow. The recent rains eroded many trails and allowed for […]

Wilson Canyon is named after the same person as in Mt. Wilson -- Benjamin Davis “Don Benito” Wilson, merchant, landowner, civic leader, as well as Los Angeles mayor from 1851 to 1852.  Wilson Canyon was purchased by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and opened as a park in 1996. Trekking poles will come in handy (but […]

Join us for a 4.5 mile loop hike into the Liberty Canyon Preserve by way of Heartbreak Hill. They don't call the hill "Heartbreak" for nothing. The first half mile contains a 500 ft elevation gain. The next mile has a couple rolling hills. After that its all downhill on the Phantom Trail into Liberty […]

Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/hikingwithdean/ For those that have never heard about it, the ranch is allegedly a 1930s hideout where NAZI/Third Reich sympathizers could sequester themselves until German rule had been established in the USA The property was developed by Winona and Norman Stephens and a German national by the name of Herr […]

We will start out surrounded by wild lilacs and a stroll through Hidden Meadow. Soon we will be hiking among the fanciful sandstone formations, caves and arches of the Rabbit Ridge Trail. After a couple of miles we'll ascend to Simi Peak where on a clear day you can see the Simi Valley, Conejo Valley, […]

Literally step out of the Valley and into another world. Our hike begins in Devils Canyon near the north end of Topanga Canyon Blvd. Devils Canyon with its spectacular rock formations created 80 million years ago in a marine environment makes for a haunting yet beautiful hike. Live Oak and Willow trees fill the canyon […]