Griffith Park, Municipal park in Hollywood, Los Angeles, US.
Griffith Park is a municipal park in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains, covering hillsides with trails, lawns, and wooded slopes. The landscape rises through different elevations and includes bridle paths along with several paved roads for vehicles.
Griffith J. Griffith bought Rancho Los Feliz in 1882 and ran an ostrich farm there before donating 3,015 acres to Los Angeles on December 16, 1896. After his 1919 death the city built the Greek Theatre (1930) and Griffith Observatory (1935), and later added land such as the 444 acres given by the Sherman Company in 1944.
The park's name comes from Griffith J. Griffith, who bought Rancho Los Feliz in 1882 and ran an ostrich farm there; ostrich feathers were then popular for women's hats. The farm was meant to draw buyers to his nearby property developments, which he claimed were haunted by the ghost of Antonio Feliz.
The park is open from 5 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Mount Lee, the hill behind the Hollywood Sign, is private land and cannot be entered. Trails and bridle paths cross the wild, rugged sections, while golf courses, picnic areas, tennis courts and baseball fields lie elsewhere in the park.
Griffith Park's 4,310 acres were labelled an "urban wilderness" by the Los Angeles Recreation and Parks Commission on January 8, 2014. The park is the second-largest city park in California, after Mission Trails Regional Park in San Diego.
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