If you drove past 29281 Agoura Road any time in the last two years, you passed a shuttered brewpub with a familiar name still on the building. That address used to be Ladyface Alehouse, then Tavern Tomoko, and for a long stretch it was the place that poured the beer garden at Reyes Adobe Days. It has been quiet since. This fall it starts pouring again under a new name, and if you follow the trail carefully, that one address explains most of the Agoura Hills calendar between now and December.
The thesis worth carrying into the season: the three biggest things happening in town this autumn are not three separate stories. They are one story about a small city rebuilding its anchors, and they share sponsors, addresses, and a common orbit around a single stretch of Agoura Road.
The Reyes Adobe weekend, in specifics
The 22nd annual Reyes Adobe Days is the anchor most residents already have on the calendar, but the shape has shifted this year. Two dates matter.
- Fri., Oct. 2, 6 to 9 p.m. — Night at the Adobe. A casually elegant evening of live music, craft beer and wine, food, local artisans, and an immersive art experience at the Reyes Adobe Historical Site, proudly sponsored by Malibu Brewing Company, 21 and over. Tickets are $20 in advance with no added fees.
- Sun., Oct. 4, 9 a.m. — The RAD 5K. The race takes place on a previously certified flat and fast course, starting and ending at Whizin's Market Square, 28914 Roadside Drive, with custom medals for age-group winners. A kids' mile follows at 9:45 a.m. A percentage of proceeds benefits the Malibu/Lost Hills Search and Rescue Team, and every participant receives two tickets to an upcoming show at The Canyon Club.
Two things about that schedule are worth pausing on. The first is that the RAD 5K starts and ends at Whizin's Market Square, which sits directly across Roadside Drive from The Canyon Club. If you have lived here five years, you already know the geography. If you have lived here twenty, you remember when that corner was quieter. The point is that the whole weekend is now geographically compact enough to walk between the venues if you time it right.
The second is the Reyes Adobe Historical Site itself, which most residents drive past without ever touring. The site at 5464 Reyes Adobe Road represents the first home built in Agoura Hills, in 1850, by Jose Paulino Reyes, grandson of Juan Francisco Reyes, a Mexican soldier on the Portola expedition granted local land in 1837; the City of Agoura Hills purchased the site from Los Angeles County in 1983 and maintains it as a museum and cultural center. The Friday evening event is one of the very few times a year the grounds are staged for adult-hour use. If out-of-town family is visiting the first weekend of October, this is the answer that isn't tribute-band-on-grass.
Why one brewery's name keeps showing up
Look at the Night at the Adobe sponsor line and then look at what is opening a mile away, and the two become the same story.
Malibu Brewing Company anticipates opening in spring 2026 at 29281 Agoura Road at Kanan, in the former Tavern Tomoko and Ladyface Alehouse location. That address matters because the old RAD Festival beer garden used to pour from exactly those two operators. If you attended Reyes Adobe Days three or four years ago, you drank a beer garden with pours from Tavern Tomoko and Ladyface Brewery at the historical site. The brewpub at 29281 Agoura Road went dark. The festival kept going without its usual pour partner. And now a new operator has taken the building, the sponsorship line, and effectively the role the old brewery played in the town's civic calendar.
For a resident, that is a useful thing to know before you buy a Night at the Adobe ticket. You are not going to a generic craft beer event. You are watching the historical site's anchor sponsor pour beer from the building down the road that used to do exactly this job. The continuity is the story.
December 2, and what changes at the north edge of town
The other date to circle is not on the city calendar. It is on the calendar of nearly every conservation organization in California.
The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in Agoura Hills is scheduled to open on December 2, 2026, creating a safe passage for mountain lions over the 101 Freeway. The scale of the thing is difficult to picture from ground level. The bridge spans 10 lanes of the 101 Freeway and will eventually be the largest of its kind globally. The overpass is expected to be about 210 feet long. When the project broke ground in 2022, it carried a $90 million price tag and a 2025 completion date; costs have since climbed to $114 million, paid through a mix of private donations and public funds.
For anyone driving the 101 through Liberty Canyon in the last year, the visible progress has been the soil and the planting rather than the concrete. Native plants are in bloom, attracting bees and a small spider; a western fence lizard named Bob has made a home on top; Beth Pratt recently spotted painted lady butterflies. Pratt is worth naming because her role has changed alongside the project. She was recently announced as the president and CEO of the Wildlife Crossing Fund.
"Standing atop the structure, the sound of the freeway disappears. If you look up from above, you can actually see it starting to blend in with the landscape. The freeway's disappearing."
Two practical notes for residents. First, the ribbon-cutting has a public dimension you can plan around. The ribbon cutting will take place in conjunction with the P22 Day Festival, which historically draws crowds worth accounting for if you commute on the 101 that first Wednesday of December. Second, the bridge is for animals, but there is a piece for people too. While the crossing is strictly for animal use, it will feature a public viewing platform for visitors to observe the project's impact.
The through-line here is not sentiment. It is that a project residents have watched under construction for four and a half years now has an actual date, and the date closes out the same fall season that opens with Reyes Adobe Days.
Agoura Road, in one sentence
If you walked the Agoura Road corridor between Kanan and Reyes Adobe Road this fall, you would pass, in order: the historical site hosting Reyes Adobe Days, the brewpub that sponsors the historical site event, The Canyon Club that hosts the runner comps for the 5K that starts and ends at Whizin Market Square, and the north edge of town where the world's largest wildlife crossing meets the 101. That is four anchors inside a two-mile corridor. Most towns of this size have one. The reason Agoura Hills reads as a small-town-inside-Los-Angeles is that its civic anchors are close enough together to actually visit in a single afternoon, and the fall calendar is the season that puts all four of them in play at once.
Something worth carrying quietly as a homeowner: the corridor around Chumash Park, Whizin Market Square, and the historical site is denser with programmed events than any other part of town, and it is filling in rather than thinning out. The brewpub reopening, the wildlife crossing completion, and the 22nd year of Reyes Adobe Days all argue that the civic core is moving toward more activity, not less.
A short list for the fridge
If it helps to pin one thing to the door for the next ten weeks:
- Oct. 2 — Night at the Adobe, 6 to 9 p.m., Reyes Adobe Historical Site, 30400 Rainbow Crest Drive.
- Oct. 4 — RAD 5K, 9 a.m., Whizin's Market Square, 28914 Roadside Drive.
- Dec. 2 — Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing ribbon-cutting at the 101, tied to P22 Day.
- Ongoing — Malibu Brewing Company, 29281 Agoura Road at Kanan, in the former Ladyface / Tavern Tomoko space.
Four dates on one corridor. That is the shape of fall here.
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