Popular Trips in Malibu Creek State Park
A shaded canyon hike to the ruins of a burned-down mansion. Full write up at
Modern Hiker.
Hiking With DeanThe Cold Creek Preserve protects the headwaters of Cold Creek, one of the few year-round streams in the Santa Monica Mountains. The extravagant lushness of the riparian vegetation growing in Cold Creek Canyon Preserve today is astonishing. In spite of the 1993 Malibu fire that burned virtually everything to a crisp, the gully-washing rains from the 1998 El Nino with its floods and mudslides, and recent earthquakes, the preserve has...
This hike is different than the other versions seen on Every Trail--it goes into the canyon, and allows a bunch of bouldering and climbing of rocks. If you are an inexperienced hiker, or not used to edging around rocks (and climbing them), this hike may not be for you. I did it the last two weekends, and it was fun (pictures included from both trips). For me however, this is one of...
Went for a hike in Malibu Creek Park to go find the area where they shot M*A*S*H.
Until the fire of October 9, 1982 (in Malibu Creek State Park), the Mendenhall Oak was a magnificent spreading live oak tree. Reportedly 700 years old, it was already ancient when the Spanish expeditions first came. When stagecoaches ran between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles it provided a shady rest stop on the line. Although the tree burned and collapsed in 1982, new growth and regeneration should provide us a clue to...
