Runyon Canyon Park
Sloped hillside park in the Hollywood Hills with dirt trails, sweeping city views, and a laid-back dog-hiking culture.
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This guide to Runyon Canyon Park in Los Angeles traces the string of owners behind its ruins, starting with Errol Flynn's late-1950s stay in a borrowed pool house after losing his own house in a divorce, and the friend, A&P grocery heir Huntington Hartford, who owned the hillside and hired Frank Lloyd Wright for a country club plan that neighbors killed. It follows why the whole canyon got nicknamed after Flynn despite his brief stay, and reaches back further to the coal man and the Greek immigrant camel driver who held the land before him. Look for the cracked tennis court and stone fireplace still sitting in the trail off Fuller Avenue.
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