PAWSITIVE VENTURA COUNTY BEACH TIPS BEACHES DOGS • Bring fresh water and provide shade for your dog LEASHED OK NO PETS ON THE to avoid heat stroke on hot hot days. Drinking sea water can make your dog sick. State Park • Rinse off salt water that irritates your dog’s skin Thornehill Broome Beach and paws. Remove tar with cooking oil, not solvents. BEACH Sunblock can prevent sunburn on noses and Sycamore Cove Beach VENTURA COUNTY pink skin. Ormond Beach • Very hot sand and asphalt can burn paw pads. Port Hueneme Beach (Sand) • Bring treats for training. • Bring biodegradable bags with you to pick up your dog’s “deposits”. Leaving feces or bags on Channel Islands Harbor Beach the beach is illegal litter and will pollute the ocean. Hollywood Beach (See note below) • Keeping your dog on a leash and under your control at all times is good for your dog as well as the birds! It helps prevent your dog from getting McGrath State Beach in fights with other dogs. Not all dogs are well trained! It helps keep them away from “stuff” that Marina Cove Beach might make them sick. Marina Park • Training your dog to “go” at home so you can keep the beach cleaner and reduce the environmental San Buenaventura State Beach and financial costs of plastic bags. Promenade Park • Bring your cell phone in case of emergency and call 911 so your call will get to the right dispatch Surfer’s Point Ventura County beaches are important habitat to a for that beach. variety of shorebirds. We share the county’s beautiful Solimar Beach beaches with wildlife that depend upon it for their survival. Many are also part of the State Faria Beach County Park Parks which, in general do not permit dogs on the North beach, whether on leash or not. (Dogs are permitted on leash within camp grounds and picnic areas that Hobson County Park are within the state parks. Oil Piers Beach This brochure provides helpful information for dog Mussel Shoals Beach owners visiting Ventura County’s shoreline and is La Conchita Beach sponsored by:

NOTE: Dogs on leash OK sunrise to 9am & 5pm to sunset Nesting birds see you and your dog as predators. Dogs, SHARING THE SHORE especially off-leash dogs, can kill or disturb nesting plovers, terns or avocets and their chicks. Simple rope barricades are HELPFUL INFO Our beaches are a thin ribbon of habitat that shorebirds put up at most of these beaches in early March to protect the need to rest and feed during their long distance migrations nesting areas from disturbance. Signs including some made As our population increases, places crucial for shorebird by students in the Share the Shore Art Project are hung on the survival are decreasing. You as a dog owner can help. ropes to help identify the area. California State Parks: Throughout the year, many different shorebirds can be found on the beaches of Ventura County. The little birds Of course, dogs can’t read; so it is up to you www.parks.ca.gov that run up and down in groups frantically digging for sand to keep your dog off the beach! crabs on our beaches are sanderlings. They migrate to Ventura County beaches from the Arctic where they nest We can be aware and share the shore with four simple actions: Ventura Audubon Society: and breed. Whimbrel, long-billed curlew, marbled godwit, • Walk around birds instead of through flocks red knots, and black-necked stilts are also seen, mostly as • Keep pets on leash so they do not chase birds www.VenturaAudubon.org they migrate between nesting and wintering grounds. • Respect closed areas set aside for endangered or nesting species • Stay away from birds that look sick or injured If you find an injured bird, or are unable to get away from humans. call The Ojai Raptor Center: 805.649.6884

If you see an injured seabird, Western snowy plovers and California least terns, by call Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network: contrast, breed locally on certain beaches in Ventura County. Both are federally protected species under the 805.681.1080 Endangered Species Act and it is illegal to disturb them (even unintentionally as dogs often do). Snowy plovers nest at McGrath State Beach, Mandalay State Beach, Hollywood If you see an injured mammal, Beach, and Ormond Beach. Least terns nest at McGrath, call the Marine Mammal Center: Hollywood and Ormond. Both nest on dry sand above the surf line from March through August. The nests are depressions in the sand. Both birds and their eggs are well 805.567.1505 camouflaged and easily stepped on. We also find American avocets nesting on our beaches.

DOG PARKS THOUSAND OAKS OXNARD Conejo Creek Dog Park - 1350 E Avenida De Las Flores College Park - 3250 South Rose Avenue FORTUNATELY, there are inland parks where dogs 7:00am - 8:30pm, daily • Separate small and large dog fenced play area. 7 am to dusk daily • Small and large dog separate fenced play area are permitted to run free. These include: Dog water fountain. Agility Coin-operated wash station. Fun equipment for dogs. Lots of benches for humans. CALABASAS Estella Park - 300 Erbes Road Monday - Friday: 4pm-Dusk Saturday - Sunday: Dawn-2pm & 4pm-Dusk Campus Park - 5th and H Streets Bark Park - 4232 Las Virgenes Road Dawn to dusk, daily. 5am to 9pm daily • Separate Gated Children’s Play Area Doggie Walnut Grove Park - 400 Windtree Avenue VENTURA Drinking Fountain, Pooper Scoopers Kimber Park - 3295 Bear Creek Road Arroyo Verde Park - Foothill and Day Road OAK PARK CAMARILLO 6 to 9 am, Tuesday - Sunday 5600 Hollytree Drive Oak Canyon Dog Park - Mission Oaks Park - 5501 Mission Oaks Blvd Camino Real Park - Dean Dr and Varsity St 7 am to dusk, daily (closed 7am to 10am Fri) Monday - Friday: 4pm-Dusk; Saturday - Sunday: Dawn-2pm & 4pm-Dusk Dawn to dusk, daily • Drinking fountains for the dogs and their people. Separate small and large dog fenced play area. Camarillo Grove Park - 6968 E. Camarillo Springs Road Benches Doggie-doo bags SIMI VALLEY 7am to dusk • Many shaded areas. Dog water fountain. OJAI Simi Dog Park - 2151 Lost Canyons Drive Springville Dog Park - 801 Via Zamora Mitchell Edelson Dog Park - Inside Soule Park Daily 7am - dusk, daily (closed Thurs 7 am to 10 am) 7 am - dusk daily (closed Fri until 10:00 am) • Large fenced area Opens 7:30 am daily Closes: Varies depending on season. Separate small and large dog fenced play area. and a smaller fenced area for shy dogs. Dog water fountain. Separate small and large dog fenced play area.