Point Mugu Missile Park

Point Mugu Missile Park makes for a nice roadside attraction and a great spot to stop and stretch your legs if you have been driving. I can’t say the park was something I really wanted to stop and see, but my hubby was stoked. The amount of information around the park and the way it was worded was enough to peak my interest and I actually did enjoy myself and was glad to have stopped. Parking and entry are free.
This isn’t your typical park because you will not find trees for shade, picnic tables to grub, a swing to swing nor a bathroom. It’s instead a park filled with missiles from the 50’s through today and some jets that have been tested at Point Mugu since World War 2. I enjoyed reading about each of the offerings this outdoor museum had to offer while hearing and seeing modern day aircraft land and take off in the sky from the nearby navel base.
Point Mugu Missile Park is open from sunrise to sunset daily and as I mentioned previously there isn’t a bathroom, so keep that in mind if you were thinking about stopping here for a potty break.

Great roadside attraction to make a stop at if you’re traveling north or south along the California coastline. It sits right off Hwy 1 but it’s not that far off the 101 that it would set you back too much.
Note that there are no restrooms.

Very cool roadside attraction, but very difficult to find. Don’t use your GPS to find this one, just look at the map. It was very quiet, lots of reading. Note: there is NO RESTROOM, so go before or after if you have little ones.

Missile Park is one of those cold war relics I remember when I was a kid. Dad worked engineering guided missiles and so we’d stop by here once in a while to view the static displays of his handiwork.
First of all, this is not a conventional park by any stretch of the imagination. There’s no large grass field, few trees and no place to play ball. However what you do get is an awesome little snapshot of various missiles produced from the late 50’s until the present, along with a couple jet aircraft (An F4 Phantom and an F14 Tomcat). As a bonus, the park is located at the East end of the Mugu runway, so you can hang out and watch all the cool military hardware take off and land.
Coming here takes me back to a time when many of these missiles were classified, state-​of-​the-​art and were engineered and built at a feverish pace as part of a nuclear deterrence strategy. Both sides were utterly convinced that these WMD’s were essential and helped her citizens sleep at night. There was some comfort knowing that Russia wouldn’t push the button as long as we had an equal or greater number of missiles guaranteeing our mutually assured destruction.
For any peaceniks out there, you probably will not appreciate the hard work and millions of man hours invested in these now harmless displays, but at least you can observe them close up and ponder one of the most interesting and frightening times in our world’s history.
Definitely worth the brief detour as you head to or from Mugu beach for the weekend…

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This place is so great. I will not say a word but bring the kids and a picnic. It is also good for a long drive pit stop. Great stuff here :)

Just north of Mugu Rock on PCH is Naval Base Ventura, used to be Point Mugu NAS. At Wood Road next to the runway, sits the Point Mugu Missle Park that is outside the fence.
There is a F-​14 Tomcat on display there that I worked on as a jet mechanic and photographer for my squadron VF –124. Gunfighters. We recieved this aircraft at NAS Miramar in April 1973. The bronze plaque tells the story of its life for thirty five years.
A F-​4 Phantom sits on another stand and in between them are displays of every missle that Point Mugu tested and developed here after WW2. We drove over to the Seabee museum about 10 minutes away. If you like the missle park, you’ll love the Seabee museum.