Local News in Brief : First Step for Hiking Trail
Officials from Agoura Hills and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy have officially begun construction of a 1.8-mile hiking and riding trail that they hope will form an important link in a longer trail from Simi Hills to the Pacific Ocean.
Connecting fragments of the longer trail, called the Zuma Ridge Trail, has been a priority of area conservationists since the early 1970s, Linda Palmer, president of the Santa Monica Mountains Trails Council, said during a ceremony Tuesday in Agoura Hills.
Before urban expansion began encroaching on open space in northwestern Los Angeles County, Palmer said, “people would walk the dirt roads from the hills to the north of us all the way to the ocean.”
The conservancy has awarded the city of Agoura Hills $250,000 to build the trail, much of which will run north along Chesebro Road. Agoura Hills hopes to use some of the money to acquire about an acre of land near the middle of the trail link for a stable and rest area.
The trail will be carved along road rights-of-way owned by the city, as well as on private property for which the city obtained easements.
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