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Burbank Peak, Cahuenga Peak, and Mount Lee viewed across the Hollywood Reservoir. Los Angeles city officials said City Hall had received hundreds of letters pleading for the peak's protection, which prompted a campaign by city leaders and conservationists to raise $6,000,000 which they thought would be sufficient to buy Cahuenga Peak and turn it into an extension of nearby Griffith Park. [4]
Griffith Park is a large municipal park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains, in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The park includes popular attractions such as the Los Angeles Zoo , the Autry Museum of the American West , the Griffith Observatory , and the Hollywood Sign .
Bronson Canyon is located in the southwest section of Griffith Park near the north end of Canyon Drive, which is an extension of Bronson Avenue. In 1903, the Union Rock Company founded a quarry, originally named Brush Canyon, for excavation of crushed rock used in the construction of city streets–carried out of the quarry by electric train on the Brush Canyon Line. [1]
The Los Angeles River bicycle path is a Class I bicycle and pedestrian path in the Greater Los Angeles area running from north to east along the Los Angeles River through Griffith Park in an area known as the Glendale Narrows. The 7.4 mile section of bikeway through the Glendale Narrows is known as the Elysian Valley Bicycle & Pedestrian Path. [1]
P-22, [note 1] an adult mountain lion, was known to inhabit the park. [8] An image of the cougar was captured on an automatic camera. [9] [10] [11] Permanent signs on the Griffith Park Observatory deck warn of rattlesnakes in the surrounding area. [12] Coyotes abound in Griffith Park, especially after dark. [13]
Griffith Park has reopened to the public, a little over a week after the Sunset fire broke out in the area. The 4,210-acre park and its sprawling network of hiking trails opened at 8 a.m. Thursday ...
The original owner of the property was industrialist Griffith J. Griffith, who gifted the city of Los Angeles with 3,000 acres of land back in the 1880s. He raised ostriches on the property, and ...
Los Angeles' Griffith Park closed one of its main roads to traffic, the latest city to open a car-free zone for cyclists and pedestrians. Los Angeles' Griffith Park closed one of its main roads to ...