Each year Oxnard hosts the California Strawberry Festival during the summer at Oxnard College, featuring vendors as well as food items based on the fruit such as strawberry nachos, strawberry pizza, strawberry funnel cake, strawberry sundaes, and strawberry champagne. The City of Oxnard is also home to over 20 miles of scenic, relatively uncrowded coastline. The beaches in Oxnard are large and the sand is exceptionally soft. Oxnard has world-class surfing conditions, although its best surf is inaccessible to the general public because it breaks at the beach inside the Navy base at Point Mugu. Only those with access to the base can surf its fast-moving (and at times up to 15 foot) break. Silver Strand has excellent surf, as well.
Oxnard offers several cultural institutions. These include the Carnegie Art Museum, founded in 1907 by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie; the Chandler Vintage Museum of Transportation and Wildlife, which houses the largest collection of rare and vintage automobiles in the nation; the Murphy Auto Museum, founded by neurosurgeon Dan Murphy; the Ventura County Maritime Museum; Heritage Square, a collection of restored Victorian and Craftsman houses which were once owned by Oxnard 's pioneer families The Gull Wings Children's Museum; The Henry T. Oxnard Historic District; the Herzog Winery and wine cellar, the nation's largest collection of fine kosher wines; the Seabee Museum and The Oxnard Performing Arts and Convention Center, home to the New West Symphony. It is also home to the award winning Oxnard Independent Film Festival.
With all of this and so much more to offer, Oxnard, California will never leave you bored. |