Griffith Park has always been more than, well, just a park. It’s been compared to New York’s Central Park and Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, but this urban wilderness is in a league of its own.

It's true that 2025 is nearly a third over, but there is still time to make a resolution or two, if you're feeling it. (You can even do so right through December, if the opportunity arises and you ...

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9:38 a.m. July 3, 2025: A previous version of this story said the city plans to build two smaller new pools and a splash pad. The plan is to build one smaller new pool and a “training pool” splash pad ...

With an increasing focus on flying above the city’s problems, a new idea took hold: building an aerial tramway over Griffith Park, the 4,000-acre refuge set in the middle of the city. The 1960s-era ...