![]() You'll eat the best grilled cheese sandwich ever. When you're done, head over to Mulholland Highway, drive the Snake, and go hit up The Old Place. Going west, you start near the Palisades, with views of downtown skyscrapers, and finish a few. You can tell you're there because you hit the hardball (or asphalt road, blacktop, Latigo Canyon Road.) and see the Latigo Canyon Trailhead sign, where it informs you that it's 2.3 miles to the Kanan Trailhead (if you don't step off to take pictures at vista points, but why wouldn't you?).Įnjoy your accomplishment, remember to drink more water, turn around, and go back. The Backbone Trail is what's known as a through-hike: essentially a multiday backpacking trip. ![]() The canopy, roughly two miles in, opens up and the tree-cover is mostly gone, while a few tall bushes provide some protection from the sun.Īfter a couple hundred yards of steady incline, you'll reach the end of this section of the trail. It climbed ridges, cut across chaparral-covered hillsides, dove into oak woodlands, and forded creeks and valleys. ![]() This allows you to move at your own pace and really get to enjoy what you're looking at: vineyards, other peaks, the ocean, the forest floor. By 1990, 43 miles of the trail had been completed. It's impossible to get lost, the trail is very well defined and where it intersects with anything is private property or loops back around on itself in short order. The trail takes you over the tunnel and soon you're under a canopy of California live oak. From there, head south and immediately go uphill. Oh hey, I'm writing about another section of the trail anyway!įirst, pay a visit to the vault toilet (not a bathroom, it's different, I swears it. While that's beautiful, you end on a decent uphill, so if hiking is new or challenging to you, consider that. It fills up quick, both directions offer beautiful hiking, but most people tend to go west, it seems. So, no bugs!įair warning, it can get very hot in Malibu, especially in the summer or fall. Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Topanga State Park Cold Creek Canyon Preserve - owned by the Mountains Restoration Trust. From Kanan Dume Road to Latigo Canyon, enjoy scrub jays and other songbirds, sagebrush, oak canopies, ferns, and wildflowers for a good hike with decent mileage on a well-maintained trail.
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