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Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook State Park is a 57-acre (0.23 km 2) California State Park located just southwest of downtown Culver City. [ 3 ] The park entrance is on Jefferson Boulevard. The main hiking trail is steep and winding. [ 3 ]
In the late 1940s the city transportation master plan included building a new north–south freeway, the Laurel Canyon Freeway-SR-170, that would have bisected the Baldwin Hills and park site where La Cienega Boulevard currently crosses the hills. Between 1947 and 1951, the Baldwin Hills Reservoir was built here. In the 1963 Baldwin Hills Dam ...
Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook State Park - The entrance to the park is located at 6300 Hetzler Road in Culver City, CA. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The 8.5-acre (3.4 ha) park is open daily from 8 a.m. to sunset. The park includes an amphitheater, the Evan Frankel Discovery Center, picnic tables, and walking paths.
The Park to Playa Trail in Los Angeles County, California is a 13-mile (21 km) pedestrian and bicycle route that connects the Baldwin Hills parklands to the Pacific Ocean (Playa is beach in Spanish). According to the Los Angeles Times , “Good views of L.A. are guaranteed on the dirt-and-paved track from Baldwin Hills to Playa del Rey.” [ 1 ]
State recreation area Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles ... Norman O. Houston Park 4800 South La Brea Baldwin Hills Estates: 8: West 9.499 Normandale Recreation Center
Less than 1 Hour. Paint Creek State Park. Bainbridge. Pike Lake State Park. Bainbridge. Great Seal State Park. Chillicothe. Scioto Trail State Park. Chillicothe
Baldwin Hills Reservoir after 1963 failure, view south. The gash through the dam corresponds to the alignment of a fault. The Baldwin Hills Dam disaster occurred on December 14, 1963 (61 years ago) () in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of South Los Angeles, when the dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir suffered a catastrophic failure and flooded the residential neighborhoods surrounding it.
The Baldwin Hills are a low mountain range surrounded by and rising above the Los Angeles Basin plain in central Los Angeles County, California. [1] The Pacific Ocean is to the west, the Santa Monica Mountains to the north, Downtown Los Angeles to the northeast, and the Palos Verdes Hills to the south—with all easily viewed from the Baldwin Hills.