Runyon Canyon Park

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View of Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles from Runyon Canyon Park

Runyon Canyon Park is a 160-acre park in Los Angeles, California at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains, managed by the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks. The two southern entrances to the park are located at the north ends of Vista Street and Fuller Avenue in Hollywood. The northern entrance is off the 7300 block of Mulholland Drive. A fire road that is closed to public motor vehicle access runs roughly through the center of the park between the northern and southern entrances along Runyon Canyon itself, and there are numerous smaller hiking trails throughout the park. The highest point in the park at an elevation of 1,320 ft (402 m) is known as Indian Rock. Because of its proximity to residential areas of Hollywood and the Hollywood Hills, celebrity sightings are not uncommon. The park is also noted for having a fairly liberal dog policy, with dogs allowed off-leash in 90 of the park's 160 acres. [1]

[edit] Trivia

The bench overlooking Los Angeles featured near the end of Seinfeld episode 42, "The Trip, Part 2", is located in the park.
Singer Rozz Williams' ashes were scattered in the park after his suicide.
Prior to becoming a park, the land was owned by businessman Huntington Hartford, who had a mansion near what is now the southern entrance to the park. The house burned down in the late 1960s, but the ruins of the tennis court can still be seen. The city of Los Angeles bought the property in the mid-1980s with the help of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. Older Angelenos sometimes refer to the park erroneously as the "Errol Flynn Estate" ; Flynn only rented the pool house, although he was a friend of Hartford's, visited the property and lived nearby.