Sitwawa Exploration Easy Hike

**A rolling easy 1 mile stroll to the Satwiwa cultural center.**

**In Newbury Park, take the Wendy exit off the 101**
**and head South to Potrero where we will park and meet.**

**Restrooms are listed as available on the weekends.**

**There are picnic tables at the center.**

**Satwiwa (Chumash: "the bluffs") was a former Chumash**
**village in the Santa Monica Mountains of Newbury Park,**
**California. The current Satwiwa Native American Indian**
**Culture Center is operated by the National Park Service in**
**cooperation with the Friends of Satwiwa. Satwiwa has**
**been inhabited by Chumash Indians for over 10,000**
**years.[2][3] It is situated at the foothills of Boney**
**Mountain, a sacred mountain for the Chumash.**

**Native Americans have lived in the area for over 10,000**
**years. With a hunting and gathering lifestyle based on the**
**abundance of foods in the area, they fished in the Pacific**
**Ocean and hunted deer and rabbits in the canyons. They also**
**gathered acorns from the surrounding oak trees, which they**
**ground to process for food, often combining them with roots**
**or berries. The thriving tribes lived in the center of a**
**commerce that extended up and down the coast, as far west**
**as the California Channel Islands.**