Valley Village Park Trail
Valley Village Park Trail is a charming and well-cared-for neighborhood park trail that offers a unique and scenic dog walking experience. Connecting Magnolia Blvd to Valley Village Park, it is praised for its welcoming and safe community atmosphere, accessibility, and suitability for children and dogs. The park is noted for being wheelchair accessible and part of a community that values safety and care.
Reviews
I discovered this path about 25 years ago, when it was overrun, hidden, and in need of some TLC. I have been attending to it, off and on, since I found it. I have always referred to it as “The Valley Village Park Trail,” and the name has caught on. It connects the Magnolia Blvd 170 freeway on-ramp to the most beautiful little park you’ve ever seen, Valley Village Park.
Is usefulness unclear, I have been using it for years (with a group of friends) as a part of an interesting dog walk; one that begins in the common North Hollywood Park and ends at the amazing Valley Village Park. The travelers on this walk have an opportunity to leave the crime and homelessness of a Los Angeles City Park and arrive at the most gorgeous neighborhood park in our city. It’s a story that unfolds before your eyes, as you walk from a city facility, where no one cares, to a neighborhood facility, where everyone cares.
Valley Village is unusual in this; it is the last place in Los Angeles where the ‘Neighborhood Watch’ still exists. The police officer at our last Valley Village Residents Association told me so. He also said that our monthly meeting of concerned citizenry was like nothing else he’d ever seen in his 25 years on the Los Angeles Police Department.
Take a minute to find it. It starts at the northern tip of Valley Village Park and ends at Magnolia Blvd. The walk is another one of our neighborhoods’ hidden secrets. I am certain that, eventually, some councilman is going to hijack it and name it after themselves. I bet you he’s never even been to Valley Village Park.