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The Carpinteria Bluffs and Seal Sanctuary is an incredible spot. The bluffs offer great views overlooking the ocean, while the trail looks down at a community of harbor seals on the shore. You can wat
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Carpinteria
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Along campaign to save the Carpinteria Bluffs, one of the last stretches of privately held, undeveloped coastline between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, succeeded in 1998. Activists, local merchants,
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Carpinteria
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CA
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Coal Oil Point Reserve has several coastal wildlife habitats set aside for research, education and preservation. The 117-acre ecological study enclave, managed by UCSB, has coastal dunes, eucalyptus g
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Goleta
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CA
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Coal Oil Point Reserve has several coastal wildlife habitats set aside for research, education and preservation. The 117-acre ecological study enclave, managed by UCSB, has coastal dunes, eucalyptus g
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Santa Barbara
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CA
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The hike up the East Fork of Cold Spring Canyon follows Cold Spring Creek through an alder, bay, and oak forest. Between the steep canyon walls are creek crossings, deep pools, and waterfalls. The des
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Montecito
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CA
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The hike up Cold Spring Canyon passes numerous cascades, pools, and waterfalls as the trail parallels the creeks. The forested hike includes an off-trail scramble up a gorge to a 200-foot waterfall kn
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Montecito
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CA
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The Coronado Butterfly Preserve was established as a nature preserve by the Land Trust for Santa Barbara in 1998. The 9.3-acre preserve and the Ellwood Main Monarch Grove are among the largest monarch
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Goleta
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CA
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The Douglas Family Preserve (also known as the Santa Barbara Coastal Bluffs) is a 70-acre grassy mesa with over 2,200 feet of rare, undeveloped ocean frontage. The preserve is covered with mature oak,
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Monarch butterflies and mellow beaches are the highlights of this coast walk north of Santa Barbara. Autumn, when the crowds have thinned and the butterflies have arrived, is a particularly fine time
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Santa Barbara
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CA
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Elings Park (formerly Las Positas Friendship Park) is a 236-acre hilltop park with a developed north side that includes baseball and soccer fields, gazebos, picnic areas, a war memorial and an amphith
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Santa Barbara Shores County Park has a network of interconnecting trails across flat grasslands overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The Ellwood Bluffs Trail parallels 80-foot high cliffs along the ocean's
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Isla Vista
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CA
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The Ennisbrook Trail (also known as the San Ysidro Creekside Trail), in the heart of Montecito, meanders through an oak, olive and eucalyptus woodland. San Ysidro Creek flows through a 44-acre preserv
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Montecito
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CA
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Forbush Flat is an inverted hike. Dropping 1000 feet in elevation in 1.5 miles means the climb out will be fairly steep. Keep this in mind if taking this hike on a hot day. This hike is short enough n
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The trail is an old fire road, very well maintained to both the springs and the peak. It begins with a well-signed trailhead at the southern end of the parking lot. The springs enter into a large uppe
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The trail begins at Goleta Beach County Park and follows the coastal cliffs into the University of California-Santa Barbara. The trail circles the UCSB Lagoon to Goleta point. The ocean surrounds the
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Goleta
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CA
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The Hammonds Meadow Trail strolls through a forest of palm and eucalyptus trees with tall, flowering bougainvillea bushes. The pastoral path connects three beaches between the Miramar and Biltmore Hot
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The Hammonds Meadow Trail strolls through a forest of palm and eucalyptus trees with tall, flowering bougainvillea bushes. The pastoral path connects three beaches between the Miramar and Biltmore Hot
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Santa Barbara
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CA
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Inspiration Point overlooks Santa Barbara, Goleta, the Pacific Ocean and the Channel Islands from a 1,750- foot perch below Cathedral Peak. The Jesusita Trail, connecting San Roque Canyon with Mission
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Santa Barbara
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CA
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The Jesusita Trail parallels San Roque Creek through a lush oak, sycamore, cottonwood, and willow woodland. The trail follows an easy course while crisscrossing the creek several times. The path leads
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Santa Barbara
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CA
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Loon Point sits between Summerland and Carpinteria at the mouth of Toro Canyon Creek. Dense stands of sycamores, coastal oaks, Monterey cypress and eucalypti line the creek. The path to Loon Point fol
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Santa Barbara
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CA
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Los Carneros County Park is a nature preserve and bird habitat with a large lake. A network of trails meander across the park through rolling meadows and a forest of eucalyptus, oak, and pine trees. A
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Goleta
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CA
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The McMenemy Trail is a connector trail between San Ysidro Canyon and Hot Springs Canyon. The trail leads over the ridge between the canyons to meadows and scenic overlooks. It then descends into Hot
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Montecito
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CA
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More Mesa is an undeveloped 300-acre oceanfront expanse in Goleta. The flat blufftop mesa is marbled with hiking trails. The main trail follows the edge of the bluffs 200 feet above the ocean. The pan
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Santa Barbara
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CA
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More Mesa is an undeveloped 300-acre oceanfront expanse in Goleta. The flat blufftop mesa is marbled with hiking trails. The main trail follows the edge of the bluffs 120 feet above the ocean. The pan
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Goleta
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CA
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Parma Park is a wonderful, underdeveloped park in the foothills of Sycamore Canyon. Coyote Creek, Sycamore Creek, and several seasonal streams flow through the park. Some of the trails follow lush, fo
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Santa Barbara
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CA
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The Montecito Trail Foundation preserves and maintains a vast network of trails throughout Montecito, Summerland and Carpinteria. Polo Club Trail and Toro Canyon Creek Trail are two of these scenic ro
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Carpinteria
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CA
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Rattlesnake Canyon is one of Santa Barbara's most popular trail. The trail leads up the winding canyon through a lush, riparian forest with many pools, small waterfalls, and stream crossings. There is
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Santa Barbara
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CA
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The Reservoir and Edison Trails, located in the Summerland Greenwell Preserve, climb a small stream-fed canyon to an overlook at the Ortega Reservoir. These two trails are part of a network of interwo
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Rincon Point, part of Carpinteria State Beach, is a popular surfing spot with tidepools and a small bay. The point straddles the Santa Barbara/Ventura County line. Rincon Beach Park is on the west sid
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Santa Barbara
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CA
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The Romero Canyon Trail follows Romero Creek up a narrow, secluded, shady canyon past pools and a waterfall. The hike returns on scenic Romero Canyon Road, an old fire road overlooking the canyon and
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Montecito
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CA
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The Carpinteria Salt Marsh, historically known as El Estero (the estuary), is one of California’s last remaining wetlands. The area was once inhabited by Chumash Indians. The 230-acre marsh is fed by
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Carpinteria
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CA
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The San Antonio Creek Trail begins at the far end of Tuckers Grove Country Park in Goleta. The level trail follows San Antonio Canyon along the watercourse of the creek through grassy meadows and a sh
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Goleta
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CA
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The San Ysidro Trail heads up picturesque San Ysidro Canyon along the cascading San Ysidro Creek. The steep, narrow, upper canyon is filled with small waterfalls, continuous cascades, and pools. This
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Montecito
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CA
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The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden has seven looping nature trails totaling 5.5 miles. The trails cover a wide variety of habitats on the 65-acre grounds. Through the heart of the garden flows Mission C
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Santa Barbara
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CA
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Seven Falls is in a beautiful, sculpted gorge in Mission Canyon. Mission Creek cascades down the canyon and over boulders, creating more than a dozen waterfalls. The waterfalls drop into bowls etched
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Santa Barbara
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CA
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Shoreline Park is a 15-acre park along La Mesa Bluff with panoramic vistas of Leadbetter Beach, the Santa Barbara Harbor and the Channel Islands. The narrow, grassy park hugs the ocean bluffs on the w
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Santa Barbara
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CA
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Stevens Park is a beautiful oak-shaded park at the bottom of San Roque Canyon. San Roque Creek flows down the forested canyon through the length of Stevens Park. An easy creekside nature trail winds t
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Santa Barbara
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CA
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Lookout Park is a beautiful, grassy flat along the oceanfront cliffs in Summerland. From the park, paved walkways and natural forested trails lead down to a sandy beach, creating a one-mile loop. A sh
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Summerland
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CA
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Tarpits Park is an 8-acre blufftop park at the east end of Carpinteria State Beach. The park was once the site of a Chumash Indian village. It is named for the natural tar that seeps up from beneath t
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Carpinteria
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CA
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Toro Canyon Park, located in the foothills between Carpinteria and Summerland, takes in 74 acres of oak woodland, native chaparral, and sandstone outcroppings. There are shady pine picnic spots under
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Summerland
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CA
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The Tunnel Fire Road is a utility easement road sometimes referred to as the Edison Catwalk. The trail is a steady, but not steep, uphill climb following the contours of the hillside. The hike leads t
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Santa Barbara
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CA
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The Tunnel Trail is named for a diversion tunnel built at the turn of the century that brings fresh water to Santa Barbara. The hike passes beautiful, weathered sandstone outcroppings on the way to pa
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Santa Barbara
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CA
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