Popular Trips in Channel Islands National Park
Santa Cruz Island is one of the five Channel Islands off the California coast. We took Island Packers boat from Ventura Harbor to Scorpian Achorage on the east side of the island which is under control by the National Park Service. The boat trip is about 23 miles and takes one hour. The west side of the island is controlled by the Nature Conservancy. The island is well protected from human influence....
My wife and I were passing by the city of Ventura on a road
trip up highway 1. I was driving and I noticed a Channel island national park visitor
center sign. So I decided to check out the visitor center. The rangers were
very helpful and explained everything we needed to know about the park. They
Explained it so well that my wife and I decided to park the car for a couple of
days and...
Smuggler's Cove. Mimi and I took the dinghy to shore and hiked about a bit. We flooded the dinghy both on arrival and departure to shore! Almost we stuck but for the help of some surf god watching us, who paddled over and pushed us out.
