path links the Ojai Valley Trail and City of Ventura, Ventura County cultural history and its environment the coastal Omer Rains Trail for Transportation Commission and funded by the City of Ventura Public WELCOMEone of the best 17-mile urban bike Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Art Program. TO THE TRAIL rides in Southern – from coordinated the project. RULES OF THE TRAIL the to Fox Street On your journey through Ventura’s in Ojai. •Trail open dawn to dusk. The City of Ventura welcomes you historic agricultural and industrial • No motorized vehicles. to explore the Ventura River Trail, Funding for the Ventura River Trail zone – now dynamically changing which follows the old Southern came from the City of Ventura with high-tech communication • Dogs allowed only on leashes. Pacific Railroad right-of-way from Parks & Recreation Improvement industries and modern housing – • Dog owners responsible for Main Street to Foster Park 6.3 Fund, City of Ventura General you will discover natural scenic cleaning up after their dogs. miles (10.16 km) inland. Opened Fund, and State of California and beauty and installations that •For concerns about trail in 1999, this pedestrian and bicycle Federal Transportation Funds. The interpret Ventura’s economic and maintenance call 805.652.4550. Legend A Delicate Balance by Ralph Allen 1 Public Art Ventura River Trail Massey suggests how humans impact wildlife. Two Ventura River estuary Trail Access Points Omer Rains Trail guardians, a Great Egret and Brown 1 Dubbers St./Rex St. (extends 5 miles east) Pelican sculpted in bronze, perch at 2West Park Row Ave. the Dubbers Lane trail entrance, off 3 W. Harrison Ave./Westpark Ctr. Olive and Main Streets. 4 Stanley Ave. 5 Shoshone St. 2 Mark by Jud Fine measures off the 6 Shell Road entire trail in miles (left side) and 7 Orchard Dr. kilometers (right side). Its 32 concrete 8 Crooked Palm Road/ Hwy 33 Underpass distance markers topped with artifacts 10 9 Ojai Valley Waste Water Foster from Ventura Avenue oil fields and Treatment Plant Access Road Park 11 cryptic messages invite contemplation 10 N. Ventura Ave./Hwy. 33 A on how humans mark the earth. 11 Santa Ana Rd. at entrance to Foster Park 10

3 Clay Track Middens by Valerie Points of Interest 9 9 Temple are a series of four half-ton 1 San Buenaventura City Hall 8 bas-relief trash receptacles bearing 2Ventura Pier images or footprints of native animals 3 Mission San Buenaventura Ojai Valley Trail 4 Ortega Adobe extends 10 that the artist observed crossing this miles north 8 Ventura River habitat route. 5 Seaside Wilderness Park at Foster Park 6Westpark Community Center 7 7 Simpson Tract & 4 Drinking Fountain by Jeff Sanders 6 6 Shell Rd. at the trail’s Park Row entrance depicts Ventura Ave. Library the Chumash legend of Sky Snake 8Ventura Syncline whose lightening tongue gave fire to 9Ventura Ave. Water Treatment Plant the people. 10 Foster Park 5 Shoshone St. 5 Orange Trace by Jeff Sanders lies 5 scattered over the ground beyond Stanley Avenue as if these four clusters 4 Stanley Ave. of life-like painted bronze oranges just rolled off an old Sunkist Railroad freight car. A Amenities 6 Win*Pin by Wyndra Roché combines Restrooms – at and east of Ventura reminders from the Ventura River Pier, near California St. Plaza and at Valley’s agricultural past with Figueroa St. on the Promenade, Surfers’ pinwheel poinsettia petals in homage Point Park, Olive St. Park, Westpark Community Center, and to Ventura’s official flower. entura Ave. V Foster Park. A 7 3 6 Westpark Pay Phones – Mission Plaza Shopping Center and restroom locations above. 3 4 West Park Row Ave. RV Park 2 Water Fountains – at restroom A Main St. 2 locations and on trail at Park Row. 5 4 1 Dubbers St. 1 A Mission Plaza Emma Wood Shopping Center 1 Parking – at restroom locations State Beach Park A 3 above and Main at Peking Streets. Showers – east of Ventura Pier, and

Figueroa St. at Surfers’ Point and Emma Wood State Beach. Amtrak Station Amtrak Station – adjacent to the Ventura County Fairgrounds (Seaside Ventura County Fairgrounds Park) at 10 W. Harbor Blvd.

Surfers’ A A Point Park A North Ventura 2 Not To Scale Pier A

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ity of San Buenaventura San of ity C POINTS

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Points of Interest of Points • Public Art Art Public San Buenaventura City Hall 1 Westpark Community Center 6

501 Poli St. 450 W. Harrison St.

Visit this 1912 marble-and-terra This youth center has a water fountain, Access Points Access •

Amenities Amenities cotta Beaux Arts building weekdays restrooms, and murals on its north and for complete visitor information and orientation. south facing walls. TRAIL GUIDE TRAIL Simpson Tract & Ventura Avenue Library 7 Ventura Pier 2 606 N. Ventura Ave. First built in 1872, midway inside Housed within the historic, recently restored Casa de the San Buenaventura State Beach Anza, the library displays extensive public art murals Park, Ventura’s pier is ’s second by Catherine Day. Her Portrait of a Neighborhood oldest, after Port Hueneme’s. commemorates the designation of the surrounding Simpson Tract, one of Ventura’s oldest neighborhoods, as a historic district. Mission San Buenaventura 3 211 E Main St. Ventura Syncline 8 Father Junipero Serra’s final stone Near the Canada Larga Road and adobe church was completed in 1809. trail access point is an oil-rich terrain folding like an accordion. Nearby the old Petrochem oil refinery closed in the 1980s abuts a former film studio back lot.

Ortega Adobe 4 Printed on recyled paper. recyled on Printed 215 W Main St. Ventura Avenue Water 9

Ventura’s only remaining adobe or (805) 654-7788 (TDD). 654-7788 (805) or Treatment Plant

residence downtown and the first by calling (805) 658-4726 (805) calling by 5895 N. Ventura Ave.

home of the Ortega Chile Company was built in 1857. Special needs can be met be can needs Special This 1939 FWA Spanish Revival facility that extracts and treats watershed supplies is the site of a future public art installation. Seaside Wilderness Park 5 Across the Ventura River Main Foster Park 10

Street Bridge and adjacent to At trail’s end this county park

entura, CA 93002-0099 CA entura, V Emma Wood State Beach Park is a for-pedestrians-only has shade, restrooms, picnic

Box 99 Box O. P. park, containing the river mouth, former Hobo Jungle, tables and a spectacular view of

arks Department arks P 1.3 mile Ocean’s Edge Trail with rare cobble tide pools, the Ventura River flowing towards the ocean from City of Ventura of City and .7 mile River’s Edge Trail – a birdwatchers’ paradise. the nearby sandstone bridge with lion sculptures.

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