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To Reach the Trailhead: To get to the Happy Camp Canyon’s principal trailhead, follow the 118 Freeway west from Simi Valley or the 23 Freeway north from Thousand Oaks to the New Los Angeles Avenue exit. Go west 1 mile to Moorpark Avenue (signed Highway 23), turn right, and proceed 2.6 miles to where Highway 23 makes a sharp bend to the left. Keep going straight here, but then make an immediate right turn on Broadway. Proceed a short way to the east end of Broadway to a spacious dirt parking lot and trailhead.

Description: On foot, follow the trail that winds north and east along gentle, grassy slopes down onto the wide floor of Happy Camp Canyon. As you look down on a golf course at the canyon’s mouth, note the terraced aspect of the landscape on both sides. These are fluvial (streamside) terraces, sedimentary deposits from earlier flows of Happy Camp Canyon’s Creek.

Pass two minor side trails on the left (leading up to a maze of equestrian trails on the hill) and then another two on the right. At 1.0 mile you join the dirt Happy Camp Canyon Fire Road in the bottom of the canyon. Turn left, and 0.2 mile later you pass through a gate marking the start of the wilderness section of Happy Camp Canyon Park. At a fork just beyond, stay left (north) into the main canyon.