Elysian Park, Los Angeles

Elysian Park is a park and adjacent neighborhood in the City of Los Angeles, California.

Encompassing Chavez Ravine where Dodger Stadium is located, Elysian Park is mostly a hillside community that is also 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. It hosted the shooting and the shooting part of the modern pentathlon events for the 1932 Summer Olympics.^[1] 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 (250,000 m²) of park land. Parkside residents enjoy the large and fruitful avocado trees that grow in the park.

Elysian Park is bordered by Echo Park on the west, Chinatown on the south and the 5-Freeway, Cypress Park and Elysian Valley on the north.

The Figueroa Street Tunnels take northbound State Route 110 (the Pasadena Freeway) through the park. The southbound lanes are higher, in a cut.

Surrounding 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 the Elysian Heights quarter of Echo Park.

Media

A season five episode, "Elysian Fields", of The Closer features the park as the location where murder victims were buried. A season two episode, "The Prisoners", of Cannon also features the park as the location where ransom money paid to release a kidnap victim was delivered.

See also

• Ned R. Healy, Los Angeles City Council member, 1943–44, member of Congress, 1945–47, opposed slant oil drilling under the park

Reference

External links

• History of Elysian Park