City of Ventura TRAIL GUIDE Amenities • Access Points Public Art • Points of Interest

POINTS OF INTEREST

San Buenaventura City Hall 1 Ventura Syncline 8 501 Poli St. Near the Canada Larga Road Visit this 1912 marble-and-terra trail access point is an oil-rich cotta Beaux Arts building weekdays terrain folding like an accordion. to view 90 pieces by 70 artists in Nearby the old Petrochem oil refinery closed in the the Municipal Art Collection. 1980s abuts Brooks Institute for Video Journalism.

Ventura Avenue Water 9 2 Purification Plant First built in 1872, midway inside 5895 N. Ventura Ave. the San Buenaventura State Beach The 1939 FWA Spanish Revival Park, Ventura’s pier is Southern building and its 2007 replacement facility that treats ’s second oldest, after watershed supplies are fronted by “Works Projects Port Hueneme’s. Anthology” gates created by Paul Hobson.

Mission San Buenaventura 3 Foster Park 10 211 E Main St. At trail’s end this county park Father Junipero Serra’s final stone has shade, restrooms, picnic and adobe church was completed tables and a spectacular view of in 1809. the Ventura River flowing towards the ocean from the nearby sandstone bridge with lion sculptures. Ortega Adobe 4 215 W Main St. Bell Arts Factory 11 Ventura’s only remaining adobe 432 N. Ventura Ave. residence downtown and the first This former mattress factory is now home of the Ortega Chile Company a vibrant studio and community was built in 1857. art complex.

Working Artists Ventura (WAV) 12 Seaside Wilderness Park 5 175 S. Ventura Ave. Across the Ventura River Main This $59 million LEED™ certified Street Bridge and adjacent to community offers a theater/gallery Park is a and affordable living and working for-pedestrians-only park, spaces designed for over 100 artists containing the river mouth, former Hobo Jungle, 1.3 mile and creative businesses. Ocean’s EdgeTrail with rare cobble tide pools, and .7 mile River’s Edge Trail – a birdwatchers’ paradise. Tortilla Flats Mural 13 Figueroa St. /101 Freeway Underpass Westpark Community Center 6 The artist team of M.B. Hanrahan 450 W. Harrison St. and Moses Mora preserved This youth center has a water fountain, memories of a Chumash, Latino, restrooms, and murals on its north and Asian, African-American and Midwest working-class south facing walls. neighborhood razed in the 1950s for the freeway with an underpass arcade of art depicting its vanished landmarks, personalities and stories. Simpson Tract & Ventura Avenue Library 7 Westside Stories 14 606 N. Ventura Ave. by Helle Scharling-Todd serve as Housed within the historic Casa cultural gateway markers (steel de Anza, the library displays murals by Catherine Day. pillars with tile and glass mosaic Her Portrait of a Neighborhood commemorates the panels) for the Avenue district at its surrounding Simpson Tract, one of Ventura’s oldest twin sites on Park Row/Ventura Ave. and Stanley Ave. neighborhoods, as a historic district. on the trail. 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. rides in – from coordinated the project. TO THE VENTURA RIVER TRAIL the Ventura Pier to Fox Street RULES OF THE TRAIL 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.

1 A Delicate Balance by Ralph Allen Legend Massey suggests how humans impact Public Art Ventura River Trail wildlife. Two Ventura River estuary guardians, a Great Egret and Brown Trail Access Points Omer Rains Trail Pelican sculpted in bronze, perch at 1 Dubbers St./Rex St. (extends 5 miles east) the Dubbers Lane trail entrance, off 2 West Park Row Ave. Olive and Main Streets. 3 W. Harrison Ave./Westpark Ctr. 4 Stanley Ave. 2 Mark by Jud Fine measures off the 5 Shoshone St. entire trail in miles (left side) and 6 Shell Road kilometers (right side). Its 32 concrete 7 Orchard Dr. distance markers topped with artifacts 8 Crooked Palm Road/ from Ventura Avenue oil fields and Hwy 33 Underpass cryptic messages invite contemplation 10 9 Ojai Valley Waste Water Foster on how humans mark the earth. Treatment Plant Access Road Park 11 3 Clay Track Middens by Valerie 10 N. Ventura Ave./Hwy. 33 A Temple are a series of four half-ton 11 Santa Ana Rd. at entrance to Foster Park 7 10 bas-relief trash receptacles bearing Points of Interest images or footprints of native animals 9 9 1 San Buenaventura City Hall that the artist observed crossing this 8 2 Ventura Pier Ventura River habitat route. 3 Mission San Buenaventura Ojai Valley Tr ail 4 Drinking Fountain by Jeff Sanders 4 Ortega Adobe extends 10 miles north 8 at the trail’s Park Row entrance depicts 5 Seaside Wilderness Park at Foster Park the Chumash legend of Sky Snake 6 Westpark Community Center 7 whose lightening tongue gave fire to 7 Simpson Tract & 6 6 the Santa Cruz Island people. Ventura Ave. Library Shell Rd. 5 Orange Trace by Jeff Sanders lies 8 Ventura Syncline scattered over the ground beyond 9 Ventura Ave. Water Stanley Avenue as if these four clusters Treatment Plant 10 Foster Park of life-like painted bronze oranges just Shoshone St. 11 Bell Arts Factory 5 rolled off an old Sunkist Railroad 14 5 freight car. 12 WAV 13 Tortilla Flats 4 Stanley Ave. 6 Win*Pin by Wyndra Roché combines 14 Westside reminders from the Ventura River Stories Valley’s agricultural past with pinwheel poinsettia petals in homage A Amenities to Ventura’s official flower. Restrooms – at and east of Ventura 7 Wheel Totem Pole by Annette Pier, near California St. Plaza and at Fourbears evokes area history through Figueroa St. on the Promenade, Surfers’ e. its locomotive-base and framework of v A Point Park, Emma Wood State Beach Olive St. ra wheel forms from a Mission cart, horse- tu Park, Westpark Community Center, and n e drawn carriage, old cultivator, Model V Foster Park. A 7 A, oil derrick pulley and bicycle. Pay Phones – Mission Plaza 3 6 Westpark 11 Shopping Center and restroom 14 locations above. 3 4 West Park Row Ave. RV Park 2 Water Fountains – at restroom A M 2 ain St 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. 12 Showers – east of Ventura Pier, and at Surfers’ Point and Emma Wood State Figueroa13 St. 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