Hollywood Sign Ecological Hiking Adventure

This Hollywood Sign Walking Tour starts at the Canyon Drive entrance and meanders all the way up Brush Canyon visiting riparian, oak woodland, chaparral, and sage scrub communities on the way to the best view of the front of the Hollywood Sign before climbing to the top of Mt. Lee above The Hollywood Sign for unforgettable views of the LA Basin, the Pacific Ocean, the San Fernando Valley and three mountain ranges.
This tour is the wildest of the bunch and offers encounters with four major ecological communities in Southern California: Coastal Sage Scrub, Riparian, Chaparral, and Oak Woodland. In this setting we touch on the Gabrieleño/Tongva first Californians, the Spanish Colony, the Mexican Era, and U.S. Statehood and find the connections between these cultural periods and the ecology that shaped them.

Bring good shoes, a hat, sunscreen and loads of water for this 7 mile hike.

Meeting Point

2818 Canyon Dr

2818 Canyon Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90068, USA

This is the first dirt parking lot on the right. There are portable toilets. I will be waiting here with my backpack and hat next to my black Ford Focus.

What to expect:

Duration: between 3 hours and 4 hours

Hollywood Sign

Los Angeles, 90068, California

We'll pass the front of the sign at the closest point for pictures from the front. We'll also hike to the summit above the sign to get as close as we can to the sign and take in glorious 360-degrees voices of the LA Basin, the San Fernando Valley, the San Gabriels, the Santa Monicas, the Pacific Ocean, DTLA and much more.

10 minutes

The Brush Canyon Trail

Canyon Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90068, USA

This Hollywood Sign hike starts in the Brush Canyon parking lot and goes up Brush Canyon Trail and Mulholland Trail to the Tyrolean Tank for the most popular viewpoint of the sign and then turns back to summit Mt. Lee, behind the Hollywood Sign. This tour is the wildest of the bunch and offers encounters with four major ecological communities in Southern California: Coastal Sage Scrub, Riparian, Chaparral, and Oak Woodland. In this setting we touch on the Gabrieleño/Tongva first Californians, the Spanish Colony, the Mexican Era, the history of U.S. Statehood and the Hollywood film industry, and we'll find the connections between these cultural periods and the ecology that shaped them.

3 hours