MT. REXMORE, LOCATED IN THE HILLS BETWEEN CHATSWORTH AND SIMI VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
Mt. Rexmore is a 118 acre wilderness preserve purchased by Rex Frankel and donated to the Chatsworth Pinnacles Wilderness Project of Connecting California Conservancy in late 2013. The property includes two peaks and a system of hiking trails.
NORTH TRAILHEAD:
(view from Topanga Canyon Blvd in Chatsworth)
The property is a key link in the wildlife and hiking corridor that connects Los Angeles and Ventura County's park systems to those in the rest of California.
The property hosts a large population of deer and smaller native animals. The land also has rocky outcrops which are home to the federally-protected endangered species known as the Santa Susana Tarplant (Photos from Google)
Other native plants found at the preserve: (click on name of plant for photos)
black sage, coast live oak, hairy-leaved lilac, green-bark lilac, Mexican elderberry, California buckwheat, yerba santa, poison oak, coastal sage, chamise, Catalina wild cherry, wooly blue curls, laurel sumac, wishbone bush, popcorn flower, mulefat, chaparral currant, yucca, bush mallow, giant rye grass, everlasting, soap plant, blue dicks, caterpillar phacelia, chia, sawtooth goldenbush, fiddleneck, redshank, prickly phlox, nettle, dove lupine, virgen's bower, Indian paint brush, peony, toyon, sticky monkey flower, miner's lettuce, wild cucumber, mountain mahogany, strigose lotus, deerweed, purple nightshade, goldfields, California bay laurel, Holly Leaf Redberry, Hummingbird Sage, golden yarrow, scarlet monkeyflower, Turkish rugging
For A Guide to native plants in the area, produced by a nearby landowner: https://www.boeing.com/resources/boeingdotcom/principles/environment/pdf/boeing_plants_at_santa_susana.pdf
To make a tax-deductible donation for maintenance of future acquisitions, we are backed by Connecting California Conservancy, an IRS-recognized tax-deductible California charitable non-profit corporation.
The property hosts a large population of deer and smaller native animals. The land also has rocky outcrops which are home to the federally-protected endangered species known as the Santa Susana Tarplant (Photos from Google)
Other native plants found at the preserve: (click on name of plant for photos)
black sage, coast live oak, hairy-leaved lilac, green-bark lilac, Mexican elderberry, California buckwheat, yerba santa, poison oak, coastal sage, chamise, Catalina wild cherry, wooly blue curls, laurel sumac, wishbone bush, popcorn flower, mulefat, chaparral currant, yucca, bush mallow, giant rye grass, everlasting, soap plant, blue dicks, caterpillar phacelia, chia, sawtooth goldenbush, fiddleneck, redshank, prickly phlox, nettle, dove lupine, virgen's bower, Indian paint brush, peony, toyon, sticky monkey flower, miner's lettuce, wild cucumber, mountain mahogany, strigose lotus, deerweed, purple nightshade, goldfields, California bay laurel, Holly Leaf Redberry, Hummingbird Sage, golden yarrow, scarlet monkeyflower, Turkish rugging
For A Guide to native plants in the area, produced by a nearby landowner: https://www.boeing.com/resources/boeingdotcom/principles/environment/pdf/boeing_plants_at_santa_susana.pdf
For the 12/1990 SMMC-Nature Conservancy study of wildlife migration corridors between the SM Mountains, the Simi Hills and the Santa Susana mountains:
To make a tax-deductible donation for maintenance of future acquisitions, we are backed by Connecting California Conservancy, an IRS-recognized tax-deductible California charitable non-profit corporation.
Our mailing address is 7825 Mesa Drive, Simi Valley, CA 93063
To contact us: rexfrankel at yahoo dot com
to enlarge images, click on them.
BOUNDARIES (IN RED) AND TRAILS IN GREEN AND BLUE
BELOW: THE AMPHITHEATRE AND NORTH MT. REXMORE
VIEW FROM NORTH MT. REXMORE TO SIMI VALLEY
BELOW: SOUTH MT. REXMORE WITH CHATSWORTH PEAK RISING ON THE LEFT
To contact us: rexfrankel at yahoo dot com
to enlarge images, click on them.
BOUNDARIES (IN RED) AND TRAILS IN GREEN AND BLUE
Starting in 2013, the trail network has been expanded from 2 to 4 miles
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BELOW: THE AMPHITHEATRE AND NORTH MT. REXMORE
ABOVE: Location of our preserve in Los Angeles' Rim of the Valley Park system
VIEW FROM NORTH MT. REXMORE TO SIMI VALLEY
BELOW: SOUTH MT. REXMORE WITH CHATSWORTH PEAK RISING ON THE LEFT
