The trail, in Point Mugu State Park, is the western terminus of the popular Backbone Trail, which cuts through 67 miles of the Santa Monica Mountains. The Ray Miller Trail can be accessed through ...

They were picnicking at the Tapia Park Day Use Area near Malibu Canyon ... explain why one of the mountain lions living in the Santa Monica Mountains would go after a little boy.

The city has many parks in and around the Santa Monica Mountains. It regularly ... within the state park. On the website for Tapia picnic area, commenters wrote: “A bit small yet beautiful ...

The family was at Tapia Park, a picnic area within the state ... Center and released in the early morning on Monday. The Santa Monica Mountains are home to about 10 to 15 adult and subadult ...

The only known black bear in the Santa ... Monica Mountains before, but are considered rare: In the early aughts, a dead black bear was found under a landslide in Malibu Creek State Park.

The National Park Service has been monitoring plants in hundreds of sites throughout the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in Southern California since 2014. A new analysis of these ...

Carlyn Taggart, 73, her daughter and granddaughter set out May 6 to hike a 67-mile trail that traces the ridge lines and canyons of the Santa Monica Mountains ... to a grassy park in Los Angeles.

Animals living in the Santa Monica Mountains of California have a strange new kind of neighbor, according to wildlife officials. Biologists with the National Park Service recently captured a 210 ...

Biologists recently captured and tagged a young black bear in the western part of the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles, marking a first for researchers eager to understand how such a large ...

For the first time, researchers have captured and radio-collared a bear in the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles where mountain lions have been studied for two decades, the National Park ...

A black bear caught in a natural area of the western Santa Monica Mountains on April 23, 2023, south of the 101 Freeway in the Los Angeles area. National Park Service via AP This is the first time ...