Elysian Park, Los Angeles, California
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Elysian Park is a park and surrounding neighborhood in the City of Los Angeles, California.
Located next to Chavez Ravine where Dodger Stadium is located, Elysian Park is mostly a hillside community that is home to the Los Angeles Police Academy.
The park itself is the second largest park in Los Angeles at 600 acres (2.4 km²). It is also the city's oldest park, founded in 1886 by the Elysian Park Enabling Ordinance. In 1964 the Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park was founded to prevent the City of Los Angeles from Constructing the Municipal Convention Center on 62-acres of park land. Parkside residents enjoy the large and fruitful avocado trees that grow in the park.
Elysian Park is bordered by Silver Lake on the west, Echo Park on the southwest, Chinatown on the south and the 5-Freeway on the north.
The Figueroa Street Tunnels take northbound State Route 110 (the Pasadena Freeway) through the park. The northbound lanes are higher, in a cut.
[edit] The neighborhood
The neighborhood is composed of mostly middle-class residents living in small tucked-in developed areas of the western portion of the park. This residential area blends in to Elysian Heights and Silver Lake on the northwest side of the park.
