The
Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy has a great new
website that pulls together information about parks across Los Angeles and the nearby valleys. I was especially excited when I found a link to a
Griffith Park trail map. Unfortunately, it looks to be the same incomplete offering the city peddles on
it's Griffith Park
site. The 5, 134, and 101 are well marked. The trail from Fern Dell to Dante's View is not. Some amateur cartographers have
attempted to create a comprehensive trail map, but Col. Griffith's gift to the city has managed to elude capture by professional map-makers.
Which is just as well, I guess. The
rectilinear expanse of the city that surrounds the park is order enough. Maybe the interior should remain uncharted, a blank space with a legend that reads "Here there be coyotes".