Last year, our group: HikingOC was camping and exploring the trails at Point Mugu State Park. We are going to have a similar event this coming April. It'll be a weekend during Spring break, from Friday to Sunday April 13-15, 2012.
If you are interested to join our group for hiking, check here for more information: http://www.meetup.com/HikingOC/events/37866542/
To see photos from last year: http://www.meetup.com/HikingOC/photos/1369261/
Flowers photos by Mai and more on her link : http://photos.think-concept.com/?page_id=288
Point Mugu State Park belongs to our neighbor county: Los Angeles and borders with Ventura county. The park located in the Santa Monica Mountains, features five miles of ocean shoreline of Malibu city that is next to Point Mugu Naval Air Station. Situated 8 miles south of Oxnard, Ventura county and approximately 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles, Malibu not only is a famous community for its warm and sandy beach, it is a home of many Hollywood movie stars and others associated with the entertainment industry. 
Point Mugu campground is famous for its "pure heaven on earth", a beautiful place for camping with family and friends. With rocky bluffs, sandy beaches and sand dunes, rugged hills and uplands, two major river canyons, wide grassy valleys dotted with sycamores, oaks and a few native walnuts, this place provides campers, hikers and backpackers both ocean and mountain view. There are more than 70 miles of hiking trails. The beach also features swimming, body surfing and surf fishing. The 13,300-acre park includes the jagged pinnacles of the Boney Mountains State Wilderness Area. Check Reserve America's website for camping information: http://goo.gl/mte2Q
There are few campgrounds at this park, but the most beautiful and convenient campground is Sycamore Canyon. It has flush toilets, hot showers, paved drive-in parking, beautiful ocean views, coastal chaparral, spring flowers, a peaceful wooded canyon and some magnificent sycamores, the sycamores that shade the canyon. Moreover, in the fall this campground is one of the best places in Southern California to observe the arriving monarch butterflies http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=25211
Let's take you back to our trip last April. We stayed at Sycamore Campground and hiked several trails. The first hike was Sycamore Canyon-Boney Mountain-Deer Canyon
We started from the campground at Big Sycamore trail, to Overlook-Backbone trail, continued to Old Boney trail, to Serrano Canyon trail and backed to Big Sycamore trail to the trailhead. We got almost 14 miles and gained 2000ft elevation. Half of a group went on a smaller loop for a shorter distance taking Big Sycamore trail instead of Serrano Canyon trail loop.
Late afternoon, we met at Ray Miller trailhead, and went on a sunset hike; it was about 6 miles with elevation 800ft. This was a shuttle hike: Ray Miller, La Jolla Canyon to Sycamore Campground. We carpooled out to Ray Miller trailhead at La Jolla Canyon to start. From there hiking up the Backbone trail, then connecting a little bit to Overlook trail, and continuing downhill to the campground. The hike had ocean views a whole way and a beautiful sunset.
Our third hike was Point Mugu Peak and loop to La Jolla Canyon trail. It was a shuttle hike. We drove to Ray Miller trailhead, left few cars, and then carpooled to Chumash trail trailhead. We got another 7 miles with about 1000ft elevation gain.
