El Escorpión Park is a three-acre (12,000 m2) park located in the Simi Hills of the western San Fernando Valley, in the West Hills district of Los Angeles, California.

The trails are available for walking, hiking, rock climbing, mountain biking and equestrian use.

[3] Climbing the rough south side trail to the summit of Castle Peak is not for beginners and is considered challenging.

Intermediate and advanced hikers will enjoy the vertical challenge, around 561 feet (171 m) of gain in a very short distance.

[4] Castle Peak is the corrupted American form of the Ventureño Chumash name for the peak, which was Kas'ele'ew (also, Kas'elew) in the Chumash language,[14] The area was inhabited for around 8,000 years by Native Americans of the Tongva-Fernandeño and Chumash-Ventureño tribes that lived in the Simi Hills and close to tributaries of the Los Angeles River.