“Regionally significant 340-acre Corral Canyon Park in Malibu encompasses the last undeveloped coastal canyon in Los Angeles County that flows freely to the ocean.”

Undeveloped. My kind of thing. And it turns out the trailhead is only a 5 minute walk from here..

Magic and I tried to hike this trail in January, but it wasn’t clear how long it was or if it was even a loop trail, so we hiked until we drank about half of our water (Magic isn’t the most efficient water user.. half of it ends up on the ground..) and turned back. I also had no idea what the place was called, so I couldn’t find a map. As it turns out, it’s only a 2.5 mile loop (though it’s a pretty decent hike with a 500′ elevation change), so this time we decided to do the whole thing.

It’s generally too hot here in the summer to do hikes like this during the day (magic overheats pretty easily with his black coat), but it was a cloudy, cool day in Malibu, so we gave it a go. We did the full loop, as well as a few of the small side trails, so it was about 3 miles or so. Lots of good photo opps at the higher elevations, though it was cloudy so things didn’t come out quite as well as I had hoped. (this was also with the little camera)

Here’s some info on the canyon, and photos below..
http://www.lamountains.com/parks.asp?parkid=4
http://www.lamountains.com/PressRelease/corral%20canyon.pdf

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