Chatsworth’s Rocky Peak trail leads to another world

The parking area, right off the 118 Freeway, for Rocky Peak trail. This is a short hike above Chatsworth into a lunar landscape of massive rocks and boulders. Park at the trail head or in the parking area across the bridge and begin walking up a wide, sandy road into a landscape of low scrub and boulders.

Flowers blooming along the Rocky Peak trail.

The view early on in the hike on the Rocky Peak trail.

Dried flowers along the Rocky Peak trail.

A bird flies over the Rocky Peak trail.

Dried grasses blow in the wind along the Rocky Peak trail.

Boulders and rocks along the Rocky Peak trail.

Flowers blooming along the Rocky Peak trail.

The view from a bench that offers a resting place and vistas of the Simi Valley along the Rocky Peak trail. Visitors can enjoy views of Chatsworth, Porter Ranch, Northridge and the rock-climbing mecca, Stoney Point Park.

Different rock formations in a cavelike setting along the Rocky Peak trail.

Hikers take a break along the Rocky Peak trail.

The trail levels out and large, flat rocks, where this photo was taken, offer a resting point and a place to look out over Simi Valley, along Rocky Peak trail.

Flowers blooming along the Rocky Peak trail.

The junction of the Hummingbird trail and the Rocky Peak trail.

A view as you descend on the Rocky Peak trail.