One of the least crowded hiking places in Los Angeles, Wildwood Regional Park is an outdoor lover’s playground sprinkled with nature and waterfall trails.
Last updated: April 26, 2024
Hiking in Wildwood Regional Park
Located in Thousand Oaks, a city in the northwestern part of the Greater Los Angeles Area, Wildwood Regional Park is one of the favorite hiking places for locals of all ages and fitness level. Indeed, there is no limit of what the park has to offer: jogging, picnicking, camping, mountain biking, horseback riding, waterfall and wildlife viewing… You name it.
Wildwood Regional Park is also hikers’ “dream come true”. With fourteen trails covering over twenty seven miles, the park entices hikers of all levels. You have the option of choosing shorter trails such as one of the most popular 2.5 mile Mesa Trail Look, 3 mile Paradise Falls, 3 mile Indian Creek Loop, 3 mile Lizard Rock Trail or longer trails that include 6 mile Lynnmere Trail, 6.5 mile Santa Rosa Loop and 7 mile Hill Canyon Trail.
Once you move away from the entrance of the park, the place opens its multifarious terrain and let you completely comprehend the beauty that surrounds you. Expansive grasslands, steep hills, volcanic rock outcropping such as Lizard Rock formation, oak woodlands, canyons, ridges and peaks, Arroyo Conejo creek with its year-round remarkable Paradise Falls will immediately capture your attention and make you proceed farther into the park and explore every single part of it.
Wildwood Regional Park is home to various plant, birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians. Wandering in the park, keep your eyes open for rare and endangered plants such as Lyon’s Pentachaeta that is found only in the Conejo Valley. If you are lucky, you might observe Mule Deer, Bobcats, Raccoons and Striped Skunks in their natural habitat.
