Mulholland Drive
Map of Mulholland Drive (orange) and Mulholland Highway (brown) in Los Angeles County
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| Maintained by | Bureau of Street Services, City of L.A. DPW |
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| Length | 21 mi (34 km) |
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 US 101 (Ventura Fwy) in Woodland Hills
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| Major junctions |
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| East end | Cahuenga Blvd in the Hollywood Hills |
Mulholland Drive is a street and road in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California. It is named after pioneering Los Angeles civil engineer William Mulholland. The western rural portion in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties is named Mulholland Highway. The road is featured in innumerable movies, songs, and novels. David Lynch, who wrote and directed a film named after Mullholland Drive, has said that one can feel "the history of Hollywood" on it.
The main portion of the road, from Cahuenga Pass in Hollywood westward past Sepulveda Pass, was originally called Mulholland Highway and was opened in 1924. It was built by a consortium of developers investing in the Hollywood Hills. DeWitt Reaburn, the construction engineer responsible for the project, said while it was being built, "The Mulholland Highway is destined to be one of the heaviest traveled and one of the best known scenic roads in the United States."
The 21-mile (34 km) long mostly two-lane, minor arterial road loosely follows the ridgeline of the eastern Santa Monica Mountains and the Hollywood Hills, connecting two sections of U.S. Route 101, and crossing Sepulveda Boulevard, Beverly Glen Boulevard, Coldwater Canyon Avenue, Laurel Canyon Boulevard, Nichols Canyon Road, and Outpost Drive.
The road offers spectacular views of the Los Angeles Basin, the San Fernando Valley, and the Hollywood Sign.
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