Public Transit Directions On weekends and holidays from 8AM to 6PM, a shuttle will travel every 20 m

A lovely 2.6 mile loop in a park in the heart of L.A. sprawl. On clear days, this trail offers outstanding views of downtown, the San Gabriels, the Hollywood tokyo cheap hotels Hills, tokyo cheap hotels and beyond and otherwise this park has wonderful bird-watching, surprisingly secluded and shaded trails, and lots of open green-space. This is a great little park that deserves a visit, especially if your experience is limited to racing through it on your way to LAX.
- How To get There: From the west, take the 10 and get off at the La Cienega Blvd. exit. From the east, take the exit for Washington Blvd. / Fairfax Ave. and continue on Washington for about a half mile before turning south onto La Cienega. Continue on La Cienega for 1.4 miles and take the exit for the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area. In the park, continue driving past the playground, pond, and community tokyo cheap hotels center and up a hill to the parking area near Janice s Green Valley (you ll see some bathrooms and another play / picnic area near the parking lot). Park your car and head toward the Green Valley tokyo cheap hotels to begin the trail. Car entrance to the park costs $6 at time of writing.
Public Transit Directions On weekends and holidays from 8AM to 6PM, a shuttle will travel every 20 minutes between the Expo Line La Cienega Station , Kenneth Hahn State Park, and the nearby Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook. Fare is 25 cents.
If you re like me, you ve driven through Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area dozens and dozens of times on your way to catch a flight at LAX and never even considered actually tokyo cheap hotels going into the park. You see the La Cienega highway that runs through it (part of a thankfully aborted project to run freeway all the way north through Laurel Canyon ) and the oil rigs at the Inglewood Oil Field and can t even imagine why anyone would want to put a park there and you re doing yourself a great disservice.
Kenneth Hahn is 401 acres of greenspace in an especially tokyo cheap hotels park-starved area of our already park-poor city that also happens to be home to a surprising amount of L.A. history. Tongva natives lived here for 8,000 years before it was incorporated into Spanish ranchland. For the 1932 Olympics, the park was the site of the very first Olympic Village ever built. A reservoir was built here in the 40s, and in 1963 the dam collapsed, flooding the Baldwin Hills neighborhood below and KTLA s coverage of the disaster was the first time helicopter tokyo cheap hotels footage was broadcast live on television. Today, it s the park where people can take super-clear photos of downtown L.A. with the snow-capped San Gabriels behind it:
After you arrive in the upper lot, head toward tokyo cheap hotels the large open space known as Janice s Green Valley. After being shocked at seeing what s probably one of the largest if not THE largest open green spaces in Los Angeles, begin your hike on the path in a counterlockwise direction.
If you re lucky, you ll get enough quiet here to enjoy the birdsong tokyo cheap hotels that seems to fill the air. If you re interested in our avian friends, the Los Angeles chapter of the Audubon Society tokyo cheap hotels hosts a free Birdwalk in this park on the third Saturday of every month (except for July and August). The walk lasts from 8 to 11:30AM and you can find more information on their web site .
In about 0.3 miles, you ll come across a plaque indicating this bucolic green space is the site of the former Baldwin Hills Reservoir, which dumped 292 million gallons of water into the neighborhood below in December of 1963, killing 5 and destroying or damaging nearly 300 homes. Continue past this marker until the 0.6 mile mark, where you ll turn right onto the dirt Diane s Trail. Keep left at the fork to avoid the locked gate for the radio towers and get ready to experience some really beautiful single track as the trail passes through large groves of prickly pears and eventually starts to open up to some great views northward.
Now, it is true that for large sections of this hike, the Inglewood Oil Field will be visible. In some parts of the lower park, you ll even be able to hear the machinery. tokyo cheap hotels So if that s the sort of thing that s going to completely ruin your day, you might not want to head to this park. But if you can look past that grossness, you might be lucky enough to see the Santa Monica Mountains and the Pacific Ocean behind them.
Continue until about 0.8 miles, where a marked but unsigned trail leaves the broader, more well-traveled Diane s Trail. Take a sharp right onto this to join the City View Trail, even though it looks like it just leaves the park.
This short side-trail loops through some very nice, shaded areas with some small eucalyptus trees before tracing a ridge that really opens up with some spectacular views of the Hollywood Hills and San Gabriels to the north.
At the 1.1 mile mark, the City View Trail meets back up with Diane s Trail right near the Autumn s Peak overlook area. Stay on the City View Trail as it makes a short descent directly below Diane s Trail and heads west toward another forested area and make sure to enjoy the nearly panoramic views from here.
At about the 1.2 mile mark, the City View Trail rejoins the main route in a large 5-way junction with several other trails and use-trails. Stay to the far right to descend on the Forest Trail, which wraps around the geography of the park s northern section before turning south into a small Japanese garden with an artificial waterfall.
From here, go beneath the red gate and stay on the sidewalk as the path takes you into Doris Japanese Garden a small but well-kept landscaped area that also appears to be a popular spot for wedding, tokyo cheap hotels prom, and quinceañera photos. Stroll through this area and continue along the roadway or look for a short parallel trail through the trees just to the east of the restrooms (look for a small brown bridge).
tokyo cheap hotels From here, the Community Loop Trail continues on sidewalk and along the street back up to the parking lot, but if you re intent on staying on trails there are a few use-trails and fire roads that will ascend from here back up to Diane s Trail. If you want to stay on the official tokyo cheap hotels route, continue along the park roads, walking through Gwen Moore Lake and along an artificial babbling brook. The water features may be man-made, but when I was there they were full of ducks, geese, and herons.
I love hiking in this park after work, as I live within walking distance (although getting there by walking is nearly impossible if you want to avoid getting hit by the traffic on La Cienega). The views are gorgeous, tokyo cheap hotels and it s a great local spot away from the Hollywood Runyon Canyon types. On a typical day here you ll see just your average neighbor or dog-owner hiking to get healthy or enjoy nature. I actually enjoy seeing the oil derricks, tokyo cheap hotels too, just for the sake of variety-where else can you see the ocean, oil fields, downtown LA, and a Japanese garden all in one hike? I also like that you can easily create your own adventure; once you get to know the park, the trails all sort of lead to the same places.
Main emphasis I would make is that, when you re heading tokyo cheap hotels south on La Cienega, it really is freeway-like, and the exit for the park will be on your RIGHT. I was expecting to just make a left into the park, so the ramp to the right was a sudden surprise.
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