HEADWATERS PLAY! GRITTY GREEN ANTIQUE ROW & MADRID THEATRE VALLEY / CANOGA PK / BASSETT ST + OWENSMOUTH AVE, LA 91303

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1 ORANGE LINE EXT PATH HEADWATERS VALLEY / CANOGA PK / BASSETT ST + OWENSMOUTH AVE, LA ANTIQUE ROW & MADRID THEATRE SHERMAN VICTORY A Where 2 concrete creeks converge & create the mighty LA River. Pure land art, courtesy of the US Army Corps of Engineers. Hart St OWENSMOUTH HS Topanga Cyn Blvd GO HUNTERS! CANOGA PK HS BELL CK IT ALL STARTS HERE! SEE IT FROM THE BRIDGE Bassett St LA RIVER HEADWATERS GWY Canoga Ave A ARROYO CALABASAS Vanowen St Owensmouth Ave Sing Wanna Be Startin Somethin Play an overture Sketch a sculpture for this spot

2 WEST VALLEY BIKEWAY VALLEY / CANOGA PK, WINNETKA, RESEDA / STARTS 6813 MASON AVE, LA new miles of bikeway. Cool design touches on gates, signs, lamps. Classic Valley landscape. Why wait any longer? LEICHMAN HS 2 Hartland St Mason Ave De l co Ave Winnetka Ave Corbin Ave SHIRLEY ES Vanowen St Tampa Ave Vanalden Ave WEST VALLEY PK & LIB DE SOTO WE FOOTBRIDGES ORANGE LINE PATH 2 OLD TRAPPER S LODGE STATUES! SEE EM TO BELIEVE EM 2200 TREES FOR 23,000 STUDENTS PIERCE COLLEGE Topham St TAMPA Victory Blvd Relay race, every bridge Have a parade! Make noises to match animal Tampa & Winnetka bridges

3 ALISO CREEK CONFLUENCE VALLEY / RESEDA / KITTRIDGE ST + WILBUR AVE, LA A grand park very soon, & a sweet catch-all site for now, with a big empty lot, a huge electrical tower & community gardens. YMCA Vanowen St WATCH FOR IN 2015! - BIG PARK WITH PATHS ON BOTH SIDES OF RIVER TO RESEDA SITE NOT YET OPEN FOR PUBLIC USE - USE VIEWPOINTS 3 W VALLEY PK Archwood St Wilbur Ave Archwood St WASH-SIDE GARDENS ALISO CK VIEWPOINT - AMIGO FOOTBRIDGE Amigo Ave Reseda Blvd PARK HERE, WALK TO VIEWPOINT Lemay St Kittridge St OXNARD VIEWPOINT - END OF KITTRIDGE Haynes St Play cards with your amigos Electric Slide on the bridge Sing Come Together (Right Now!) 3

4 RESEDA PARK VALLEY / RESEDA / VICTORY BLVD, LA You ll find dozens of ways to enjoy this fully loaded park & rec center. Shade trees galore & a duck-happy lake & a handy footbridge. 4 Kittridge St Etiwanda Ave REGENTS ROCK! RESEDA HS Reseda Blvd FLOATING ISLANDS THE ONE & ONLY LA RIVER PARK FOOTBRIDGE Lindley Ave SOCES MAGNET 4 GO KNIGHTS GO! BASEBALL BASKETBALL POOL & REC CTR TENNIS Victory Blvd VOLLEYBALL ONE GENERATION SR CTR Croquet Knights vs Regents Make a mockumentary, Parks & Rec-style Board game tournament OXNARD

5 CABALLERO CREEK CONFLUENCE VALLEY / TARZANA / 6351 LINDLEY AVE, LA Looks like an empty lot, but can you see it as a glorious park? That s the plan, & it s going to happen. Like, totally. RESEDA HS - ROBOTICS TEAM ROCKS! 5 Victory Blvd RESEDA + OXNARD CABALLERO CK GATE IS LOCKED... FOR NOW IMAGINE-A-PARK VISTA Lindley Ave Draw-in to imagine the future park Play poker, knights wild Sing caballero songs 5

6 SEPULVEDA BASIN VALLEY / ENCINO / 6300 BALBOA BLVD, LA The greenest 2 miles & egret central in a 2000-acre city parks area with a lake, a Japanese garden, cricket fields & pretty much everything else. DOG WHITE OAK BULL CK Victory Blvd BEILENSON PK LAKE BALBOA GOLF TILLMAN JAPANESE PLT GARDEN HASKELL CK A LOT OF WATER IN THE RIVER COMES FROM HERE - IT GETS CLEANED UP & DISCHARGED Sepulveda Bvld WL RESERVE TRAILHEAD - NICE WALK TO THE RIVER! Vanowen St SYLVAN ES VAN NUYS HS Victory Blvd Oxnard St Van Nuys Blvd 101 Balboa Blvd GOLF GOLF HABITAT AREA - NO PEDESTRIANS IN CHANNEL Burbank Blvd MODEL AIRPLANE FIELD Woodley Ave CRICKET WOODLEY PK 6 6 THE DAM! WL RESERVE FAV SCENIC VIEWPOINT 405 Kayak in summer, make origami boats off-season Find 7 egrets & 15 ducks Amazing Race, Sepulveda Basin version

7 LILLARD OUTDOOR CLASSROOM VALLEY / STUDIO CITY / VALLEYHEART DR + LONGRIDGE AVE, LA More like a theater! Summon the bard at this mini-amphitheater, on a shady halfmile stretch that forms a loop with the new greenway on the other side. DRAMAWORKS ROCKS! N Valleyheart Dr STEELHEAD TROUT MURAL - THE RIVER S TOTEM ANIMAL Ethel Ave Moorpark St Bloomfield St Coldwater Cyn Ave 7 DIXIE CYN CHARTER Woodbridge St Fulton Ave Longridge Ave AKA VILLAGE GARDENERS STRETCH V-HEART RIVERWALK GWY S Valleyheart Dr 1940S-50S HOLLYWOOD HANGOUT 7 EATS & RETAIL THERAPY Ventura Blvd Perform a play, any play Improv comedy in the Valley! Grab picnic eats on Ventura & hang out on your lunch hour

8 Coldwater Cyn Ave VALLEYHEART + BELLAIRE VALLEY / STUDIO CITY / VALLEYHEART DR + BELLAIRE AVE, LA Why a dead-end street corner? It s the perfect place to see one of the most hotly contested sites on the river. Stay posted: park or condos? 8 COMING SOON! LA RIVER GWY TRAIL Valleyheart Dr Bellaire Ave Valley Spring Ln FUTURE: LA RIVER NATURE PARK? NOW: WEDDINGTON GOLF & TENNIS Whitsett Ave Ventura Blvd 8 Draw-a-park potluck Park vs condos debate costumes recommended Play riverside golf. Make up the rules!

9 POETRY MINI-PARK VALLEY / STUDIO CITY / VENTURA BLVD, LA a concrete river / tiny park, poem placards / thru a bank garage. A surprising spot & a perfect LA haiku. Laurelgrove Ave Valley Spring Ln 9 Laurel Cyn Blvd Whitsett Ave Valleyheart Dr REALLY BIG FOOTBRIDGE STUDIO CITY GARAGE ENTER PARK FROM RIVER OR THRU STUDIO CITY GARAGE LA RIVER GWY BANK OF AMERICA Ventura Ct 9 Ventura Blvd Laurelgrove Ave Poetry slam sonnets & spoken word Juggle! balls, poetry books, anything Play Monopoly, pay the garage rates for free parking

10 VALLEYHEART GREENWAY VALLEY / STUDIO CITY / VALLEYHEART DR + RADFORD AVE, LA Might win the most charming walk prize. Sculptures & gardens, imagined by elementary school kids & designed by artists. CBS keeps an eye on it all. 10 Radford Ave Laurel Cyn Blvd N Valleyheart Dr S Valleyheart Dr RATTLESNAKE WALL Guerin St BUTTERFLY GARDEN SEE WHERE THE LOW-FLOW CHANNEL BEGINS CBS CBS 7-STUDIO STRETCH STARTS HERE! 10 GREAT TOAD GATE CARPENTER ES IS THATAWAY - WE MADE THIS! Play animal charades Film 60-Minutes-style interviews Dance the Butterfly, Reggae-style

11 WARNER BROS VISTA VALLEY / HOLLYWOOD HILLS / 6589 FOREST LAWN DR, LA NBC J About as close as you can get to a studio on the 7-mile studio stretch, aka where they filmed all the Westerns before the concrete arrived. WARNER BROS BRIDGE Olive Ave WARNER BROS ABC, DISNEY, DREAMWORKS CBS Forest Lawn Dr J Barham Blvd UNIVERSAL STUDIOS Tell the plot, guess the movie Search for errant tennis balls Sing Cole Porter s Don t Fence Me In

12 BUENA VISTA PARK VALLEY / 2700 RIVERSIDE DR, BURBANK Q Relax under the shade trees, & gaze across the river at the buena vista of the Forest Lawn Mortuary & the Hollywood Hills. CREEKLET ALERT JOHNNY CARSON PK Bob Hope Dr Riverside Dr COOL PROPOSED PARK & BIKEWAY LA RIVER CELEB CEMETERY Forest Lawn Dr FOREST LAWN Q Frisbee! Tell ghost stories, #playthelariver #laghosts Sundown BBQ, Buena Vista Social Club soundtrack

13 EQUESTRIAN CENTRAL VALLEY / BURBANK, GRIFFITH PK / MARIPOSA ST + VALLEYHEART DR, BURBANK It s all horses all the time here behind the houses, in the stables & on the riverside trails on both sides. LA EQUESTRIAN CTR K Mariposa St Beachwood Dr A HORSE FOR EVERY HOUSE Valleyheart Dr OLD SUSPENSION EQUESTRIAN BRIDGE! 134 K NICE BIG OPEN AREA GRIFFITH PK Trail ride to Griffith Pk Prancersize down the trails (look it up, you ll like it) LA River Horseshoe Derby! with big sun hats & virgin mint juleps

14 GREAT WALL OF LA VALLEY / VALLEY GLEN / COLDWATER CYN AVE + HATTERAS ST, LA A ½-mile mural of LA s ethnic history to the 1950s, it s an LA icon & a groundbreaking community-based artwork. If you haven t seen it, go now. Coldwater Cyn Ave TUJUNGA WASH GWY GOES ALL THE WAY TO SHERMAN WY! COOL BRIDGE SOON! SEE THE WALL W/O A FENCE Oxnard St W GRANT HS Fulton Ave Ethel Ave JACK LONDON HS Whitsett Ave LA VALLEY COLLEGE 400 KIDS, COMMUNITY FOLKS, ARTISTS & SCHOLARS CREATED THIS I SPY THE MASTODONS, THE ZOOT SUIT RIOTS, & ROSIE THE RIVETER Hatteras St ORANGE LINE PATH W Burbank Blvd Paint LA s ethnic history, 1960s-present Play Pictionary Act out the stories on the panels