Old Canyon Ranch

Do NOT book your wedding or event here. We booked our wedding for July 18^th, 2015 and were excited at first because it is such a sweet, rustic place and had the type of «vibe» we were looking for at our wedding.
The venue became sketchy and was having problems keeping the power and water on throughout the time we were planning (but we weren’t told about any of the problems until after we had signed a contract). The day before and for the wedding, they were supposed to have arrived to let us in by a certain time, but they were 45 min late. They had not cleaned anything up — it was a mess and still had tons of debris and left over materials from a previous wedding.
The day of the wedding turned out to be a terrible rainstorm. There is no rain plan for this venue and they do not take care of the grounds so EVERYTHING turns into mud and slush. Our wedding ceremony was pretty much ruined but we held it there anyway since it was too late to move it. We had to call the hotel my guests were staying at to let us move our reception into the hotel lounge. It was a nightmare to say the least.
The venue cost around $ 5K to rent and we got nothing back and no apology or any sort of responsibility for any of the issues we had seen. Diana, our Event Coordinator at the time, was great and very easy to work with, and unfortunately she had little control over the venue itself. She is no longer there.
If you are looking to have a rustic wedding around Topanga Canyon, there are lots of others. 1909 and Kelly Gultch are great ones. Hope this helps!

Disclaimer: This review is based on their wedding services and not the nursery itself.
We booked our wedding and reception to be held at OCR in August. It is completely an outdoor venue with beautiful grounds that require daily maintenance. In the booking process and months leading up to our wedding we visited the site & it was always in pristine condition. At the date of contract signing, it offered full electric as well as a full-​time on site coordinator. However within several weeks of our wedding, we were made aware upon visit that the management hadn’t received appropriate permitting and the city shut down it’s power. For our wedding, we would be run on generators and only have the coordinator available the day of. The Tuesday prior to our wedding we arrived at the venue to deliver most of our supplies. We walked the grounds in order to assess what the damage was from a recent storm. At that point, the entire ceremony area was completely thrashed, unsafe and inoperable. Mud was covering all the benches, the grounds were completely unleveled, unsafe and ripped up, the pond was reeking from still water and both the bridal hut and grooms area were covered in dirt/​mud.
The manager of the property promised it would be fixed before our wedding date. On Thursday we arrived to see no work had been done, the manager who had promised the repairs had left for vacation and was unreachable and none of the staff were even aware there was a wedding in two days. We then rented all necessary equipment and with the help of family and friends spent an entire day repairing the venue to operable conditions – the conditions to which we were promised. After the wedding we requested partial reimbursement, comparable to the work we had completed ourselves. The management and owner refused to acknowledge our requests or engage in a fruitful conversation about how to rectify the dispute. The venue is being closed down temporarily until permitting and zoning issues can be resolved but this contributes to the problem as the business now has little accountability to past clients.
Though our wedding was both beautiful and memorable, this is not the kind of drama or lack of professionalism anyone needs to incur in the days leading to the event. Though at one point I would have highly suggested and recommended anyone to get married at Old Canyon, I now would highly dissuade anyone even remotely interested.

This place is so beautiful! The garden area is small but completely enjoyable if you take the time to stop and literally smell the roses.
We picnicked here at some tables that were randomly placed throughout the area, although there is a specific picnic area. It was just too shady and cold at the time. The guy running the place was really cool about letting us run amok.
There’s even an area to have your wedding ceremony. Very cute.
Has it’s own parking area. iPhone maps told me that the place was on the right as I turn into Old Topanga Rd from Topanga Canyon, but it’s actually to the left. We missed it the first time around.

The ribs are less than mediocre and not worth the money! U can make better ones at ur house. And at $ 19.00 a rack u should make ur own!