UCLA Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve
1201 Stunt Road
Calabasas, CA, 91302
310-206-3887
http://stuntranch.ucnrs.org/
Planning is underway for the reconstruction of the education/research center destroyed in the 1993 Malibu/Topanga fire.
The Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Mountains Reserve is a 310-acre biological field station located four miles inland on the north central flank of the Santa Monica Mountains. It is one of 36 ecological reserves operated by the University of California Natural Reserve System (NRS), and is the only reserve managed by UCLA .The NRS network of reserves spread across all parts of California provides venues for world-class research and education in the environmental sciences, and is a unique resource unparalleled anywhere else in the world.
The Stunt Ranch Reserve, named for the original family that homesteaded the property in 1885, comprises 310 acres of relatively pristine chaparral, live oak woodland, and riparian habitat in the Cold Creek watershed on the north-central flank of the Santa Monica Mountains, between Malibu and Calabasas. The reserve is also an archeological site with rich evidence of Chumash inhabitants dating back thousands of years.
The Reserve is not open to the public for recreational uses: These include hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking, picnicking, or rock climbing.
The exception is the Stunt High Trail which runs alongside and through some portions of the Reserve.
Contact the Reserve for its latest information.
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