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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation AreaLearn how to get a permit, have a festival, hold an event, are just play the banjo.
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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
Places to Hike
 
Large oak trees cast a green shadow as the setting sun shines through the banches.
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Rocky Oaks offers picnic tables, a small pond and oak groves which are all accessed via an easy stroll.
 

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The National Park Service & Its Partners Provide scenic vistas and opportunities for recreation from Mountains to Ocean:

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Map
National Park Service Headquarters
401 West Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks

Arroyo Sequit
34138 Mullholland Highway, Malibu

Backbone Trail Multiple trailheads

Cheeseboro/Palo Comado Canyon
5792 Chesebro Road, Agoura

Circle X Ranch
12896 Yerba Buena Road, Malibu

Paramount Ranch
2903 Cornell Road, Agoura Hills

Peter Strauss Ranch
30,000 Mulholland Highway, Agoura Hills

Rancho Sierrra Vista/Satwiwa
Main Entrance cross street is Via Goleta and Potrero Road, Newbury Park

Rocky Oaks
Mulholland Highway and Kanan Road Intersection, West of Kanan on North side of Mulholland Hwy.

Solstice Canyon
Main Entrance is on Corral Canyon Road off cross street Pacific Coast Highway, Highway 1.

Zuma and Trancas Canyons
Main Entrance is at the end of Bonsall Drive in Malibu. There is also an entrance at the Newton Canyon Trailhead on Kanan Road at Tunnel 1.

 

Sites managed by other Park Partners

 
Watch the credits a the end of a film and you may discover how often national parks are used by the movie industry.  

Did You Know?
Unique vistas and cultural significance often draw filmmakers to National Parks. Paramount Ranch is the only place in the National Park System where you can see movie making in action at a historic movie ranch once owned by Paramount Pictures (1927).

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Last Updated: August 18, 2009 at 13:44 EST