Hikers carefully find an opening along a fence at Griffith Park on Dec. 6. Some of them are angry about the barriers, saying they’re an eyesore. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Founded by a Griffith Park employee named Charley Atkins in 1952, Travel Town Museum welcomes thousands of train and railroad enthusiasts each year. "Atkins asked all of the ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Founded by a Griffith Park employee named Charley Atkins in 1952, Travel Town Museum welcomes thousands of train and railroad enthusiasts each year. "Atkins asked all of the ...

In 2013, Damian Kevitt was on a bike ride with his wife in Griffith Park when a driver hit him with their car, dragging him for nearly a quarter of a mile and onto Interstate 5. Kevitt barely ...

(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.