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Mulholland Highway

Road in Los Angeles, United States

Summary

Road in Los Angeles, United States

Field	Value
name	Mulholland Highway
image	Mulholland Drive.png
caption	Map of Mulholland Drive (orange) and Mulholland Highway (brown) in Los Angeles County
image_size	350
namesake	William Mulholland
tourist	[[File:California Scenic.svg	28px	link=State Scenic Highway System (California)]] Portions of Mulholland Highway
direction_a	West
terminus_a
junction	{{plainlist
* {{Jct	state	CA	SR	23	dir1=south	name1=Decker Canyon Road}}
* {{Jct	state	CA	SR	23	dir1=north	name1=Westlake Blvd}}
{{Jct	state	CA	CR	N9	name1=Kanan Road/Kanan Dume Road}}
* {{Jct	state	CA	CR	N1	name1=Las Virgenes Road}}
direction_b	East
terminus_b	/Mulholland Drive

the highway west of Calabasas

U.S. National Park Service map of Mulholland Highway and [[Santa Monica Mountains

Mulholland Highway is a scenic road in Los Angeles County, California, that runs approximately 50 mi through the western Santa Monica Mountains from near US Route 101 (Ventura Freeway) in Calabasas to Highway 1 (Pacific Coast Highway) near Malibu at Leo Carrillo State Park and the Pacific Ocean coast – at the border of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties.

Mulholland Highway is the western rural portion and, with the eastern Mulholland Drive portion, is a scenic route named after Los Angeles civil engineer William Mulholland and built throughout the 1920s "to take Angelenos from the city to the ocean".

Only the segment of Mulholland Highway between Pacific Coast Highway and Kanan Road/Kanan Dume Road, and through Malibu Creek State Park between Cornell Road and Las Virgenes Road, is officially recognized by the California Department of Transportation as under the California Scenic Highway System, meaning that it is a substantial section of highway passing through a "memorable landscape" with no "visual intrusions", where the potential designation has gained popular favor with the community.

Geography

Sandstone Peak as seen from Mulholland Highway

The name Mulholland Highway applies to a 30 mi stretch that starts near Louisville High School (California) in Woodland Hills and extends to its westernmost terminus at Leo Carrillo State Park on the Pacific Coast Highway. Wholly contained within Los Angeles County, the scenic byway was formally opened in 1928. Mulholland zigzags through the Santa Monica Mountains – one of the Southern California Transverse Ranges – from Oxnard all the way to Hollywood. Original major intersections included Topanga Canyon Boulevard, Cornell Road, Latigo Canyon Road, Kanan Road/Kanan Dume Road, and Decker Canyon Road.

The route provides access, directly or en route, to many of the regional parks in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.

Running east–west along the spine of the Santa Monicas, Mulholland Highway makes its way through the mountains without benefit of tunnels. There are several automobile wrecks and fire-burnt structures that litter the bottoms of the canyons through which Mulholland Highway passes . The native flora of the Santa Monica Mountains are seen throughout the scenic route.

Hollywoodland

East of US 101, there is a section of Mulholland Highway from the Hollywoodland neighborhood to Griffith Park, with views of the Hollywood Sign. Much of it is now a pedestrian trail called Mulholland Trail.

References

California Department of Transportation. "List of Officially Designated County Scenic Highways". California Department of Transportation.
{{Caltrans scenic info

Wikipedia Source

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