For a nice walk in the footsteps of your favorite heroes, choose China Flat.
For a nice walk in the footsteps of your favorite heroes, choose China Flat.
China Flat is located in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. It’s a little-known plateau above 2,000 feet in the Simi Hills; a veritable garden that experienced hikers know well because it’s an intermediate point in their climb up Simi Peak.
Local historians recount that Chinese people camped there discreetly due to the remoteness and difficulty of accessing the area, in order to (clandestinely) land immigrants in Santa Monica Bay and hide them during the Chinese exclusion period.
Regardless of the Chinese involvement, China Flat is a prairie place crisscrossed with hiking trails such as the China Flat Trail Loop, a 6 kilometer long loop popular with mountain bikers and hikers.