Ventura County Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
county in California, United States of America
About Ventura County
For the first hundred years after California became a state, Ventura County was primarily agrarian, and was known for its fertile farmland and orange groves. The rise of Los Angeles, its eastern neighbor, into become a major metropolis has resulted in the south third of the county becoming increasingly suburban. Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, and Moorpark, in the southeast, are commonly considered the western extent of the Los Angeles exurbs. The southwest of the county, Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo, and Port Hueneme, have grown into more urbanized communities in their own right, with modest commercial and retail development to complement the agricultural sector that has thrived in the fertile soil deposited by the Santa Clara River, and the now-largely-channelized Calleguas Creek. The norther
Ventura County Travel Guide Sections
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