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Sited as it is – at the end of a paved County road behind a Forest Service lock gate and surrounded by National Forest – the property offers virtually endless possibilities for peaceful involvement with nature untamed, and Vistas which are ever-changing.

The DENT HOUSE has successfully hosted weddings and family reunions…corporate and group functions…holidays, barbecues, and special occasions with entertainers and musicians…

Yet, there is opportunity for restful, regenerative time, with hiking and mountain-bike trails leading you into five million acres of the Los Padres National Forest. Available within minutes on the Ranch are:

  • trails into hidden canyons with a profusion of opportunity for birders…Orioles and Phainopepla, Stellar jays… the Blue Herons and Green Herons and Canyon Wrens;
  • pictorial overlooks, and sandy hideaways next to streams that make their own music as they run over rocks and mosses;
  • woodlands, chaparral, scrub, and even waterfalls for those who seek solitude.
  • creeks and swimming holes, ponds and a wide display of native flora: Inland and Coastal Chaparral, magnificent old sycamore and oak trees, pines, cottonwoods, willows, bay laurel and yuccas.
  • in season, numerous wildflowers. As you walk around any corner, there may be wonderful surprises.
The Dent House
at Matilija Canyon Ranch
4100 Matilija Canyon Road
Ojai, CA 93023
telephone: (805)646-8311 toll free: (866)336-8468
thedenthouse@aol.com