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Municipal parks come under the administration of the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks. The overseeing body is the Department of Recreation and Park Board of Commissioners. [ 5 ] The first parks date back to 1889 under the City's first Freeholder Charter.
The Department of Recreation and Parks is an agency of the government of the City of Los Angeles and is organized and governed according to the City Charter. It is charged with establishing, constructing, maintaining, operating, and controlling parks and recreational facilities in its jurisdiction, as well as managing concessions or privileges for the purpose of public recreation in its ...
This is a list of parks in Los Angeles County, California outside of the city of Los Angeles itself (for those, please see List of parks in Los Angeles). There are at least 183 parks maintained by Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation, many of which are in unincorporated areas of the county.
The City of Los Angeles Park Ranger Division, LA Park Rangers or L.A. Park Rangers, is a park ranger division serving city parks in Los Angeles, California. [1] [2] The headquarters of the LA Park Rangers is located at the Griffith Park visitor center. [3]
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.
Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park, commonly Harbor Park, is a 231-acre (0.93 km 2) Los Angeles municipal park featuring a golf course and 45-acre (0.18 km 2) Machado Lake [1] and freshwater wetland. [2] [3] [4] Harbor Park is located west of Harbor Freeway and south of Pacific Coast Highway, adjacent to Los Angeles Harbor College.
The Los Angeles Department of Parks was organized in 1889. [3] The Los Angeles Playground Commission was organized by the city council in 1904 as an unpaid five-person commission; the commissioners had authority to hire a superintendent and staff. [4] Arabella Page Rodman served as president from the time of its organization. [5]
MacArthur Park (originally Westlake Park) [2] is a park dating back to the late 19th century in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.In the early 1940s, it was renamed after General Douglas MacArthur, and later designated City of Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument #100.