Day 5: Wildwood Park

Sunset over Santa Rosa Valley

Day #5: Wildwood Park
San Miguel Trail/Indian Creek Trail/Mesa Trail/Santa Rosa Trail/Moonridge Trail
Wildwood Regional Park- Thousand Oaks, CA
Tuesday, June 30th 2015
Time: 1 hour, 49 minutes
Pace: 29:22/mile
Distance: 3.73 miles
Elevation Gain: 571 feet

Directions:
From the 101 Freeway in Thousand Oaks:
Take the Lynn Road exit and head north for 2.6 miles to Avenida De Los Arboles
Turn Left onto Avenida De Los Arboles and continue for 0.6 miles to Velarde Dr.
Turn Left onto Velarde Dr and continue 0.3 miles to San Miguel Circle.
Turn Right onto San Miguel Circle and continue approx. 0.1 mile to trailhead on right.
Park on the street and enter trail between two houses.

Looking into Wildwood Canyon from the San Miguel Trail

A quick hike looping around Wildwood Park to grab some geocaches that I needed. I started at the San Miguel Trailhead and headed down to the bottom to the Indian Creek trail.  Here I made a right and headed all the way up to the main parking area, grabbing caches as I went.

Follow the sign toward Arboles

A smaller, less known waterfall along Indian Creek

After coming to the parking area, I headed west on the Mesa trail and then made a turn up the Santa Rosa Trail and followed that to the top of Mountclef Ridge. From here I headed back down to the Mesa Trail and followed it toward Paradise Falls, but made a left on the Moonridge Trail to continue to a small game trail that leads to the top of the Indian Cave.

Looking toward Mountclef Ridge from the Moonridge Trail

After dropping down through the Indian Cave, I headed back up the San Miguel Trail to my car. On the way up to the car I spotted a good size toad hopping around enjoying the humidity of the early evening.

Big Toad!