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Treasure in the Canyon
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Topanga Canyon, CA | June 20 - 21, 2026
An all-canyon overnight built around a magic-feeling theatre that lives deep in the live oaks of Topanga Canyon.
Topanga has always felt like a continental shift from Los Angeles: the city is so close, but suddenly there’s winding canyon roads and live oaks, with even Malibu (right next door) feeling like a trillion miles away.
And there’s something happening this Saturday in the trees: it’s opening night of Treasure Island at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, where Robert Louis Stevenson’s pirate story moves into a one-of-a-kind, outdoor amphitheater.
As always, your stay, meal and local experience are bookable in a click.
Stay at Topanga Canyon Inn, set into the Santa Monica Mountains, about a mile off Topanga Canyon Boulevard.
This place very much couldn’t care about being Malibu-polished or L.A.-slick; it is more country-house than hotel, with balconies, common rooms, breakfast in the dining room, and canyon views that do not quit.
You have reservations for two on Sat. June 20. Just arrive.
Photo via Topanga Canyon Inn
On Saturday night, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum — a place we visited a while back as one of our favorite Overnights — opens its 2026 production of Treasure Island.
Adapted by Ellen Geer from Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, the show begins at 7:30pm on a wooded outdoor stage that gives the whole thing a good, half-mystical and slightly improbable feeling: pirates, moral peril, and high-seas adventure, staged under the oaks in Topanga Canyon.
You have tickets for two. 7:30pm on Saturday evening.
Photo via Theatricum Botanicum
Pre-theatre dinner is at the Inn of the Seventh Ray. It’s an exact, dining-equivalent match for the sprung-up-from-the-forest feel of the show you’ll be seeing.
It’s creekside, and has been here since the 1970s. After dark, there are candles and string lights flickering across the big sycamores.
Dinner for two on Saturday night. We’re including a $125 food and drink credit (inclusive of tax and tip).
Photo via Inn of the Seventh Ray
All arranged, no planning anxiety. Just go.
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