Take a spring hike with the Los Angeles Times

Howdy! I’m Jaclyn Cosgrove, an outdoors newsman astatine the L.A. Times. My occupation is to research the mountains surrounding Los Angeles to find the champion hikes, campgrounds and different adventures for you to tackle. I besides constitute Between a Rock, wherever we diagnostic outdoors endurance stories each month, and The Wild, our (free!) play outdoors newsletter wherever I diagnostic the implicit champion things to bash astir L.A. and Southern California. In short, I’m extracurricular a lot!

Would you similar to articulation maine sometime? How astir aboriginal this month? The Times volition big its 4th subscriber hike astatine 9 a.m. May 24 connected a 3.5-mile hike to Sycamore Canyon Falls.

Tucked distant successful Point Mugu State Park, Sycamore Canyon Falls is simply a multi-tier 55-foot waterfall adjacent Newbury Park. And hopefully with caller rainfall, it’ll inactive beryllium flowing for america to enjoy.

There are aggregate ways to scope the falls, but we volition instrumentality the shortest and much nonstop way, starting successful Rancho Sierra Vista/ Satwiwa successful the Santa Monica Mountains. We’ll commencement astatine the Wendy Trail and upwind our mode done the parkland earlier entering Point Mugu State Park. Because we’re hiking done a authorities park, dogs aren’t allowed connected this hike. (Trust me, I’m bummed too!)

I’ll pb a radical of 30 subscribers to the falls, wherever we’ll bent out, drawback images and possibly adjacent stock a snack oregon two. This hike is mean and requires bully footwear. I volition astir apt bring on my poles for traction and invited you to bash the same.

Parking is escaped and easy. Please parkland astatine the Wendy Trail Head. We’ll conscionable astatine the commencement of the way there.

We volition person h2o bottles for attendees, but you’re besides invited to bring your own. You indispensable beryllium 18 oregon older and volition beryllium required to motion a waiver anterior to attending. Grab a spot astatine Tixr.com.