MALIBU CREEK STATE PARK / M*A*S*H* SITE / PARAMOUNT RANCH / FOOD & WINE @ M-Cafe

MALIBU CREEK STATE PARK is where they filmed MASH, "Planet of the Apes" and a gazillion other movies... http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/1/e/0/c/event_413287692.jpeg

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CLICK HERE FOR MASH VIDEO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICiFnQrHOrk)

CLICK FOR PHOTOS OF PREVIOUS HIKE HERE (http://picasaweb.google.com/hikingla/MALIBUCREEKSTATEPARKPARAMOUNTRANCH?authkey=Gv1sRgCOXCq8DcwufWJQ#slideshow/5561085188690048594)

STOP 1) MALIBU CREEK STATE PARK ( FEE AREA - it was $12 last time I was there, or get there 10 minutes earlier to park on the corner of Mulholland and Las Virgenes and walk in )

( 40 minute drive from Santa Monica )

We'll be hiking 4 1/2 miles ROUND-TRIP to the MASH filming site and will also visit the ROCK POOL where there are MANY cool rock formations. Slight elevation gain.

STOP 2) PARAMOUNT RANCH

We'll caravan to Paramount Ranch and take a short 3/4 mile hike around the set where they filmed "Little House On The Prairie", "Dr Quinn Medicine Woman", and "Northern Exposure" and of course... "about a gillion other movies"

STOP 3) M-Cafe / Calimigos Ranch... with a POND, Paddle boats, an incredibly friendly cow, petting zoo, an outside pool table and generalized fun and frivolity

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CLICK HERE FOR INTERACTIVE MAP OF ALL STOPS (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=201782227640152276864.0004999a47ee4677b0b62&ll=34.085649,-118.674316&spn=0.120418,0.264187&z=13)

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FROM Santa Monica travel NORTH on PCH approx 12 miles. Make a RIGHT on Malibu Canyon Road. (just before Pepperdine University) Approx 6 miles up the road, make a LEFT turn into Malibu Creek State Park. Fee is approx $12. We're at the back of the SECOND parking lot on the left, approx 4/10 mile from the entrance

we'll be caravaning to the other locations after the hike