📅 January 15th 2025 @ 10:00AM
🌡 Temp: 62°F, 17°C. ☀Sunny
Drive starts on Lookout Mountain Ave and ends on Wonderland Ave in Laurel Canyon, Hollywood Hills.
Laurel Canyon is a mountainous neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills region of the Santa Monica Mountains, within the Hollywood Hills West district of Los Angeles, California. The main thoroughfare of Laurel Canyon Boulevard connects the neighborhood with the more urbanized parts of Los Angeles to the north and south, between Ventura Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard. By the early 20th century real estate developers situated a vacation site along the slope of neighboring Lookout Mountain; this formed the nucleus of what would become the Laurel Canyon neighborhood. It later developed into a celebrity enclave: the remote, rugged nature of the land and its proximity to many of the movie studios in nearby Hollywood made it an ideal location for many movie stars to site their homes, especially during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Raymond Chandler's first novel The Big Sleep sets lurid scenes there, and in The Long Goodbye (1953), his private detective Philip Marlowe is residing in 'the Laurel Canyon district'.
By the 1960s, the neighborhood had become a local center for counterculture, and many prominent folk and rock musicians moved into the area, making it a nexus for musical collaboration. By the late 1970s, criminal activity in the neighborhood, including distribution of drugs, was controlled by the Wonderland Gang (named for a Laurel Canyon thoroughfare), and the neighborhood became associated with the Wonderland murders, a grisly quadruple homicide in 1981.
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0:00 Lookout Mountain Ave
0:16 Stanley Hills Dr
1:52 Wyndham Rd
3:52 Beech Knoll Rd
8:24 Groveland Dr
11:50 Stanley Hills Dr
13:54 Appian Way
19:46 Lookout Mountain Ave
27:03 Laurel Pass Ave
30:39 Mulholland Dr
31:27 Allenwood Dr
32:00 Coreyell Pl
34:28 Allenwood Dr
35:48 Carmar Pl
37:42 Laurel Pass Ave
41:07 Wonderland Ave