Exploring Wildwood Park Thousand Oaks California (Video Blog)
Looking for something to do near Simi Valley that is healthy and inexpensive? Then get out your hiking shoes a knapsack, a couple bottles of water and your digital camera and your ready for some fun. Wildwood Regional Park is located at the end of Avenida de Los Arboles off Lynn Road. The park and trails are maintained, well marked and in regular use by area residents.
The Trail Head at the parking lot has maps and you can drive you car in to the park via fire roads. There is a visitors center inside the park with a small amphitheater for groups. I drive enough every day so I hiked in from the parking lot. Dogs are permitted if on leashes. There are no trash can in the park so you need to take out what you bring in.
The spring is supposed to be a great time to see the park when the wild flowers are in bloom, I plan to get back next year to see the bloom first hand.
This is a large open space area and encounters with wildlife are possible. Rattle Snakes are my primary concern on the smaller trails; mountain lion and bobcat are native to the area as well. However the animals probably do not come around during the day much as the park has plenty of runners, hikers, mountain bikers and visitors that would scare them away.
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Hey, great video from Paradise Falls. I go there every year when I visit California.
Did you use the Aiptek camcorder to film that? Video came out pretty good if so.
Also there are a couple of trash cans throughout the area. Notably an area you didn’t film was the Teepee. There was a trail leading up from where Paradise Falls was. Climb up the stairs and then there are a few switchbacks till you get to the top where the Teepee is.
No matter how hot it is 80..90…100 degrees, once you get inside that Teepee it feels like it is 60 degrees it is an awesome way to end the hike to cool off. There are 2 trashcans there.
KMA,
Thanks for stopping by. I used my Cannon HD camcorder. I did not have my stabilizer with me that day so walking with the camera was not what I would have preferred.
I went past the TeePee on the way down. I think I will shoot more in the spring when the wildflowers bloom and reedit the tape with both the summer and spring seasons. I can add the Teepee in the next cut.
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