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33-685: To get here from the Ventura Freeway , exit on Ventu Park Road in Newbury Park, CA. Continue for 0.6 miles south until reaching Lynn Road. Pass the Stagecoach Inn Museum on the right and turn right for one block before parking at Susan Drive and the Stagecoach Inn Park, located on the right. The Rosewood Trail is located across Lynn Road. The trail was established in the early 1980s and has an elevation gain of 800 feet. The Rosewood Trail

66-447: A Bus Rapid Transit project. This exit list proceeds from east to west, since the majority of the freeway is the north-south US 101. Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured on the road as it was in 1964 , based on the alignment that existed at the time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage. R reflects a realignment in the route since then, M indicates a second realignment, L refers to an overlap due to

99-605: A correction or change, and T indicates postmiles classified as temporary ( for a full list of prefixes, see California postmile § Official postmile definitions ). Segments that remain unconstructed or have been relinquished to local control may be omitted. The numbers reset at county lines; the start and end postmiles in each county are given in the county column. Conejo Valley 34°21′36″N 119°09′00″W  /  34.36000°N 119.15000°W  / 34.36000; -119.15000 The Conejo Valley ( Spanish : Valle del Conejo , meaning "Valley of

132-582: A diary of the expedition, and gave Conejo Valley one name that survives today – Triunfo (Spanish for "triumph"). Crespi gave the name El triunfo del Dulcísimo Nombre de Jesús (in English: The Triumph of the Sweetest Name of Jesus ) to a camping place by a creek – today's Triunfo Canyon Road begins between Thousand Oaks and Westlake Village. Later, explorer Juan Bautista de Anza used Portolá's shortcut on his way north in 1774, mentioning in his diary

165-576: A population of 100-200 in each village, and were settled around 2,000 years ago. These former villages, known as Ven-65, Ven-260 and Ven-261, are located on private lands near Ventu Park Road in Newbury Park. A smaller village, known as Yitimasɨh, was located where Wildwood Elementary School is located today. Artifacts retrieved in nearby Wildwood Regional Park include shell beads , arrowheads, and stone tools. Local villagers' first contact with Europeans came in 1770. The Spanish exploratory party led by Gaspar de Portolá , returning from its journey up

198-665: A portion of the Rancho El Conejo land grant) in 1910. A ranch, named the Janss Conejo Ranch , was utilized as a farm and to raise thoroughbred horses with the Santa Susanna Mountains and Simi Hills framing it. Television Westerns such as The Rifleman , Gunsmoke , and Bonanza were filmed in Janss Conejo between the 1950s and 1960s. It was also used as the filming locations for Disney's Davy Crockett, King of

231-452: A stop at "El Triunfo". On de Anza's second expedition (1775–76), diarist Father Pedro Font referred to "many watering places, like those of El Triunfo and Los Conejos". Harold and Edwin Janss purchased ten thousand acres (40 km²) of land of what is now central Thousand Oaks from the heir of John Edwards, who had purchased the land from the de la Guerra heirs (all of the land was originally

264-514: Is Routes 101 and 134 from Route 5 to the Santa Barbara County line. This does not include the portion of Route 134 between Route 5 and Route 210 even though local usage extends the name over this portion of freeway. At the freeway's eastern terminus with Interstate 210 in Pasadena, highway signs indicate "Ventura" as the destination direction for Route 134. The interchange of SR 134 and I-5

297-680: Is a 25-mile trail connecting Newbury Park and the City of Westlake Village by crossing Hidden Valley, Thousand Oaks and Lake Sherwood . Alternatively, hikers can cross the Potrero Ridge and join the trail leading to Satwiwa , which again connects to Point Mugu through trails crossing the Santa Monica Mountains through the Big Sycamore Canyon . The trails here are used by equestrians, mountain bikers as well as hikers. The Rosewood Trail

330-519: Is a 5-mile roundtrip hike from the Stagecoach Inn Park to the top of Angel Vista. 34°10′07″N 118°55′06″W  /  34.1685°N 118.9182°W  / 34.1685; -118.9182 Ventura Freeway The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California , United States, that runs from the Santa Barbara / Ventura county line to Pasadena in Los Angeles County . It

363-593: Is a daily newspaper published in Camarillo, California and serves all of Ventura County , including the Conejo Valley. The Acorn is a local weekly newspaper covering Agoura Hills , Hidden Hills , Oak Park , North Ranch and Calabasas , while Thousand Oaks Acorn covers the cities of Thousand Oaks , Newbury Park and Westlake Village . KCLU is the only public radio station in Ventura County . In 2013

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396-843: Is a vegetated overpass spanning the Ventura Freeway and Agoura Road at Liberty Canyon in Agoura Hills . When built, it will be one of the largest urban wildlife crossing in the United States, connecting the Simi Hills and the Santa Monica Mountains over a busy freeway with ten traffic lanes (including exit lanes). Ventura Freeway currently carries the Los Angeles Metro express bus route 501 between Pasadena and North Hollywood. Portions of SR 134 are also being considered as part of

429-583: Is located near Chumash Indian Museum in Oakbrook Regional Park . This park is also home to 4-6,000 year old pictographs , which can be observed on docent-led tours. Satwiwa, which was first settled 13,000 years ago, was located at the foothills of Mount Boney , a sacred mountain to the Chumash people. The Satwiwa Native American Indian Culture Center is available for visitors. Two additional Chumash villages were found by Ventu Park Road. These had

462-644: Is officially the "Gene Autry Memorial Interchange", after the singing cowboy superstar Gene Autry . Autry's Museum of the American West is located near the interchange in Griffith Park. Assembly Concurrent Resolution 54, Chapter 85 in 2003 also designated Route 101 in Ventura County as the "Screaming Eagles Highway". This honors the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army , which formed on July 23, 1918 and has been involved in every major war that

495-680: Is the principal east–west route (designated north–south) through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County . From the Santa Barbara County line to its intersection with the Hollywood Freeway in the southeastern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles (the Hollywood Split ), it is signed as U.S. Route 101 (US 101), which was built in the late 1950s and opened on April 5, 1960. The segments from

528-726: Is the starting point for the Los Robles Trail, the longest trail operated by the Conejo Open Space Conservation Agency (COSCA). It connects to various open space areas and nature preserves in the Greater Thousand Oaks Area, including the Hope Nature Preserve , Los Padres Open Space , Conejo Ridge Open Space , Deer Ridge Open Space , Old Conejo Open Space and Los Vientos Open Space . The 25-mile Los Robles Trail begins by Angel Vista Point and

561-560: The Alhambra / Los Angeles city limit. Signs on SR 134 and I-210 refer to the SR ;710 stub in Pasadena as TO SR 110 , because exiting left from the SR 710 stub onto California Blvd and turning right on Arroyo Parkway leads directly to SR 110, which is Pasadena's only direct freeway link to Downtown Los Angeles . Both the SR 134 and US 101 portions of the freeway are part of

594-994: The California Freeway and Expressway System , and is part of the National Highway System , a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by the Federal Highway Administration . A pre-freeway alignment of State Route 134 originated at U.S. Route 101 (Ventura Boulevard) and Fulton Avenue in Los Angeles , then along Fulton, Moorpark Street, Riverside Drive and Alameda Avenue before meeting up with U.S. 6 / 99 (San Fernando Road) in Burbank. It traveled along San Fernando Road to Colorado Street, then ran along Colorado Street (portions of which have been renamed Eagle Vista Drive) through Glendale, Eagle Rock and Pasadena before terminating at U.S. Route 66 . The alignment

627-529: The Hollywood Split . Here, the US ;101 designation switches to the southeast-bound Hollywood Freeway, while the Ventura Freeway becomes SR 134 as it continues eastward. The northwest-bound portion of the Hollywood Freeway is designated as SR 170. The westernmost portion of the freeway also forms part of the unsigned SR 1 concurrency that stretches from Las Cruces in the west to Oxnard in

660-650: The Santa Monica Mountains to the south. The valley is located in the Santa Monica Mountains on an elevated area. The largest non-retail employers in the Conejo Valley include Amgen , the Conejo Valley Unified School District , Los Robles Regional Medical Center , Anthem Blue Cross, California Lutheran University , Shire Biotechnology, Skyworks Solutions, PennyMac Mortgage and Sage Publications. Other notable employers include Jafra Cosmetics, Teledyne, J.D. Power, Dole Food Company, Guitar Center, Bank of America and Teradyne. The Ventura County Star

693-937: The Verdugo Mountains , it continues along the southern slope of the San Rafael Hills between Glendale and Eagle Rock before entering Pasadena near the Arroyo Seco and terminating at the Foothill Freeway (I-210) . The road is the main connector from the San Fernando Valley and points north to the San Gabriel Valley and points east. The future I-710 dead-ends at California Blvd and is signed as SR 710 . Residents of South Pasadena have blocked efforts to extend I-710 north to California Boulevard from its current end at Valley Boulevard north of I-10 near

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726-577: The Rabbit") is a region spanning both southeastern Ventura County and northwestern Los Angeles County in Southern California , United States . It is located in the northwestern part of the Greater Los Angeles Area . Communities in the Conejo Valley are Thousand Oaks , Newbury Park , Westlake Village , Oak Park , Agoura Hills , Lake Sherwood and a portion of Calabasas . In 1803,

759-481: The Santa Barbara County line to Sea Cliff , and from Solimar Beach to Oxnard , are also concurrent with State Route 1 (SR 1), although no signs mention SR 1 there. East of the Hollywood Freeway intersection, the Ventura Freeway is signed as State Route 134 ( SR 134 ), which was built by 1971. Before the construction of a new alignment in 1971, the portion east of the Golden State Freeway

792-696: The Spanish land grant in the area was given the name Rancho El Conejo . In Spanish , conejo means " rabbit ", and refers to the rabbits common to the region, specifically the desert cottontail and brush rabbit species. The Chumash people inhabited region for thousands of years. Notable Chumash villages included Satwiwa ("The Bluffs") in Newbury Park , Sap'wi ("House of Deer") in Thousand Oaks , and Hipuk in Westlake Village . Sap'wi (Šihaw Ven-632i)

825-528: The United States has participated in since then. The California Legislature passed a resolution in 2017 to designate the easternmost segment of the SR 134 freeway between SR 2 and its terminus at I-210 as the "President Barack H. Obama Highway", in honor of the 44th U.S. President Barack Obama , who had attended Occidental College in Eagle Rock from 1979 to 1981. Signs were posted on December 20, 2018. The proposed Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing

858-569: The Wild Frontier and Westward Ho, the Wagons! both starring Fess Parker . Conejo Valley is a 900-foot-high (270 m) valley. The area is bordered by the San Fernando Valley and the city of Los Angeles to the east, Simi Hills to the north, Las Posas Hills and the Santa Rosa Valley to the northwest, Conejo Mountain (also known as Conejo Hills) and Oxnard Plain to the west, and

891-606: The coast as far as San Francisco , entered the valley from the northwest. On the outward bound journey, the explorers had traveled up the Los Angeles River , then north to Castaic Junction , then followed the Santa Clara River back down to the coast. On the return trip, they sought a shorter route to the San Fernando Valley , and were guided by natives up and over the Conejo Grade . Franciscan missionary Juan Crespi kept

924-452: The east, with SR 1 spitting off for about 6 miles (9.7 km) to serve Sea Cliff , Faria , Solimar Beach , and Emma Wood State Beach . The portion of the Ventura Freeway signed as US 101 is signed as a north–south route by CalTrans despite the freeway's actual alignment being east–west. This is due to the fact that US 101 as a whole has an overall north–south alignment. The apparent inconsistency can be confusing to visitors, as

957-541: The northern Santa Monica Mountains , it crosses the Ventura/ Los Angeles county line before entering the San Fernando Valley . The freeway continues eastward along the valley's southern rim, crossing the San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405) near Sherman Oaks at an interchange consistently rated as one of the five most congested in the nation. It then reaches an interchange with the Hollywood Freeway known as

990-562: The ramp and then onto what is presently the Ventura Freeway to Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena. The Colorado Boulevard / Figueroa Street ramps plus the segment of freeway between the ramps and just east of Orange Grove Boulevard were previously known as the Colorado Freeway. From 1964 to 1992, the Colorado Boulevard portions of Route 134 were renumbered as California State Route 248 . The official Ventura Freeway designation

1023-541: The same freeway entrance can often be signed as "101 North" and "101 West." This is most common in the San Fernando Valley . Continuing eastward from the Hollywood Split as SR 134, the Ventura Freeway, now signed as east–west, skirts the northern edge of Griffith Park before intersecting the Golden State Freeway (I-5) and crossing the Los Angeles River . After passing through Downtown Glendale south of

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1056-552: Was known as the Colorado Freeway after nearby Colorado Boulevard , a historic thoroughfare in Pasadena and northeastern Los Angeles. The Ventura Freeway begins at the Santa Barbara / Ventura county line, west of La Conchita , as US 101. It travels eastward through the citrus orchards and strawberry fields of the Oxnard Plain before ascending the short, steep Conejo Grade into the Conejo Valley . Continuing eastward through

1089-530: Was later cut back to terminate in Studio City at Lankershim and Ventura. The Interstate 5 off-ramp at Colorado Street is actually a former routing of SR 134, and there are still mileposts that refer to it as such. Old SR 134 followed Colorado Street through Glendale and Colorado Boulevard in Eagle Rock to the ramp connecting Colorado Boulevard and Figueroa Street to the Ventura Freeway. Old SR 134 continued onto

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