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Baldwin Village was developed in the early 1940s and 1950s by architect Clarence Stein, as an apartment complex for young families.Baldwin Village is occasionally called "The Jungles" by locals because of the tropical trees and foliage (such as palms, banana trees and begonias) that once thrived among the area's tropical-style postwar apartment buildings. [3]
Downtown Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Mountains from Kenneth Hahn SRA. Hahn Park offers walking and hiking trails with some of the area's best scenic vistas. [4] North to the Hollywood Sign; East to the Downtown Los Angeles high-rises and San Gabriel Mountains behind them; Southeast to the Santa Ana Mountains; South to the Los Angeles Harbor ...
Jungle tourism is a subcategory of adventure travel defined by active multifaceted physical means of travel in the jungle regions of the earth. Although similar in many respects to adventure travel , jungle tourism pertains specifically to the context of region, culture and activity.
The park comprises 605 acres (245 ha), and is located near the geographical center of the city of Los Angeles. [1] Franklin Canyon is also the name of the canyon and surrounding neighborhood. The park features a 3-acre (1.2 ha) lake, a duck pond and over five miles (8 km) of hiking trails. The lake and pond are visited by birds in the Pacific ...
The Silver Moccasin Trail is a 53-mile (85 km) trail located in the San Gabriel Mountains, northeast of Los Angeles.It begins at Chantry Flat Recreation Area above the city of Arcadia, California, traversing upward and down through several canyons and along the high ridges of the Angeles National Forest.
Crystal Lake in Angeles National Forest, Azusa, California. Photo taken in July 1998 after a rainy season following a period of El Niño.. The Crystal Lake Recreation Area is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California, administered by the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument (formally the San Gabriel River Ranger District) of the United States Forest Service.
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]
Camp Gilboa has existed in the Los Angeles area since 1936, originally with the name Habonim Camp Kvutza Naame. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The camp began in Saugus, then operated on its own site in Idyllwild in the 1960s and 1970s, closed in 1982, then reopened in 1995 and operated at rented camp facilities east of Los Angeles until 2010.