Parade Highlights Pony Express Fest

The Pony Express Days festival is already two days into its four-day celebration of the city’s Old West heritage, but the highlight will be this morning’s parade down Thousand Oaks Boulevard.

The parade will begin at 10:30 and travel east on Thousand Oaks Boulevard between Reyes Adobe and Kanan roads. It will end up just north of the carnival grounds near the corner of Kanan Road and Canwood Street, off the Ventura Freeway.

Thousand Oaks Boulevard will be open to traffic during the parade, but it will be limited to one side of the street and one lane in each direction.

In keeping with the parade’s theme, “Chumash, Our True Beginnings,” the parade will feature Chumash dancers as well as themed floats and costumed residents to evoke the Old West era--when what is now Agoura Hills was a stop on the Pony Express route.

The festival typically attracts about 9,000 residents and visitors. The festivities began this week with a carnival, a children’s circus and pony rides and will continue at the carnival lot from noon to 11 p.m. today and noon to 7 p.m. Sunday.

Admission to the fair is $2. For more information, call the Agoura Chamber of Commerce at (818) 889-3150.