Shadow Hills, Los Angeles, California
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Shadow Hills is a semi-rural neighborhood in northern Los Angeles, California. Often mistakenly said to be part of the nearby San Fernando Valley, Shadow Hills is actually part of the Crescenta Valley.
It is entirely contained within the community of Sunland. The area is primarily equestrian zoned, one of the last remaining such sections within Los Angeles. Shadow Hills is north of the independent city of Burbank and is the western-most portion of the Tujunga Valley, a part of the larger Crescenta Valley, and which begins just southeast of the Hansen Lake reservoir. A hunting lodge once owned by actor Clark Gable still stands in Shadow Hills overlooking the lake.
The neighborhood's residents formed the Shadow Hills Property Owners Association in the mid-1960s to fight the planned routing of a Foothill Freeway offramp through the heart of the neighborhood, which would have run along McBroom Street and two segments of Wheatland Avenue, from Wentworth Avenue to Sunland Boulevard. This grassroots organization persuaded the Los Angeles Planning Commission to abandon the proposed route for the offramp, and so preserved the neighborhood's semi-rural character. The Association continues to function today with a slightly different name.
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