The “toot! toot!” of the miniature train’s horn blasted as it carried adults and children on 16-inch gauge tracks that circle Griffith Park’s popular Travel Town Museum.

The Griffith Park & Southern Railroad opened in 1948, and on Sept. 23 the park is celebrating 75 years of train rides for 75 cents, far less than the normal $3 ticket.

At the time, there was small miniature train ride at Griffith Park, where the museum is located, but Charley thought the addition of full-sized trains would be a wonderful thing for people to ...

(National Park Service, via AP, File) It’s amazing that a mountain lion, P-22, lived in a city park for a decade after crossing the 405 and 101 freeways on a journey from Topanga State Park in 2012.

Los Angeles’ Griffith Park is a massive, mountainous, wild oasis in the middle of the city’s dense urban sprawl. Its real and cinematic history is pure joy to explore.

In 2021, it will be 125 years since Griffith J. Griffith and his wife, Tina, donated 3,015 acres of the Rancho Los Feliz to the city of L.A. with deed restrictions that the land be a park, free to ...

Mountain lion spotted in Griffith Park, more than 1 year after P-22’s death The last big cat living there, P-22, was a cause celeb, inspiring songs, murals, and the 101 wildlife crossing ...

Los Angeles’ Griffith Park is a massive, mountainous, wild oasis in the middle of the city’s dense urban sprawl. Its real and cinematic history is pure joy to explore.

At 4,210 acres, Griffith outshines other extraordinary city parks of the US, such as San Francisco’s Golden Gate, which barely tops 1,000 acres, and New York’s Central Park, a mere 843 acres.