Holiday Roundup at the Leonis Adobe Museum Calabasas
Calabasas, CA
Step back to 1880s rancho California at Leonis Adobe’s Holiday Roundup — hands-on crafts, live music, farm animals, and Santa visits at one of L.A.’s oldest historic homes.
Step back to 1880s rancho California at Leonis Adobe’s Holiday Roundup — hands-on crafts, live music, farm animals, and Santa visits at one of L.A.’s oldest historic homes.
The Holiday Roundup at the Leonis Adobe Museum is a charming, small-scale Calabasas tradition that brings 1880s rancho life to life for the holidays. Set on the historic Leonis Adobe grounds in Old Town Calabasas, the one-day event has featured hands-on holiday crafts, live music, rancho-life demonstrations, photos with Santa, and visits with the museum’s resident farm animals (horses, sheep, chickens, longhorn cattle).
Inside the adobe and gift shop, the museum’s curated holiday store offers handcrafted gifts and decor.
The Holiday Roundup is typically held on a Saturday early in December. Confirm this season’s confirmed date and program at leonisadobemuseum.org.
Admission is modest and supports the museum; children under 2 and Leonis Adobe Museum members are free. Tickets are sold at the door — advance reservation isn’t typically required.
The Holiday Roundup is typically held on a Saturday early in December, with afternoon hours. Confirm the season’s confirmed date at leonisadobemuseum.org.
Hands-on holiday crafts, live music, rancho-life demonstrations from the 1880s, visits with farm animals (horses, sheep, chickens, longhorns), photos with Santa, and a curated gift shop of handcrafted holiday items.
Mostly — the main grounds are flat and stroller-accessible. Some historic adobe interiors have small steps and uneven floors; the rest of the property accommodates strollers and small kids easily.
Free parking is available in the museum lot and along the surrounding Old Town Calabasas streets. Spots fill during the busiest stretch in the early afternoon; arrive early for the easiest parking.
The Leonis Adobe in Calabasas is one of the oldest surviving residences in the San Fernando Valley, with its earliest adobe walls dating to about 1844. In the 1870s, French Basque rancher Miguel Leonis and his wife Espiritu Chijulla refashioned the structure into a two-story Monterey-style home with a wrap-around veranda. The site became Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 1 when the city’s Cultural Heritage Board first convened in 1962, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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