Griffith Observatory
Griffith Observatory is an observatory in Los Angeles, California, on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park. It commands a view of the Los Angeles Basin including Downtown Los Angeles to the southeast, Hollywood to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest.Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
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- Type: Bus stop
- Description: observatory in Los Angeles, California, USA
- Also known as: “Los Angeles observatory”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Roosevelt Municipal Golf Course and Mount Hollywood.
Roosevelt Municipal Golf Course
Golf course
The Roosevelt Municipal Golf Course is a 9-hole golf course located in the Griffith Park area of Los Angeles, California. It currently measures 2,478 yards from the back tees.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Los Feliz and Beachwood Canyon.
Los Feliz
Neighborhood
Photo: We hope, Public domain.
Los Feliz is a hillside neighborhood in the greater Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, abutting Hollywood and encompassing part of the Santa Monica Mountains.
Beachwood Canyon
Neighborhood
Photo: Downtowngal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beachwood Canyon is a community in the Hollywood Hills, in the northern portion of Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. The upper portion of the canyon is the Hollywoodland community that was advertised in the 1920s by the original of what is now known as the Hollywood Sign.
Thai Town
Neighborhood
Photo: Simon J. Hernandez, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thai Town is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. In 2008, it was one of the five Asian Pacific Islander neighborhoods in the city—along with Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Historic Filipinotown, and Koreatown—that received federal recognition as a Preserve America neighborhood.
Griffith Observatory
- Categories: astronomical observatory, organization, and transportation
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.11936° or 34° 7′ 10″ northLongitude
-118.30015° or 118° 18′ 1″ westElevation
1,135 feet (346 metres)Network
DASHOpen location code
85634M9X+PWOpenStreetMap ID
node 4842786567OpenStreetMap feature
highway=bus_stopOpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=platformGeoNames ID
5354331Wikidata ID
Q575901
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Griffith Observatory” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Griffith-sterrewag”
- Arabic: “مرصد جريفيث”
- Armenian: “Գրիֆիթի աստղադիտարան”
- Asturian: “Observatoriu Griffith”
- Bulgarian: “Грифит”
- Catalan: “Observatori Griffith”
- Chinese: “格里斐斯天文台”
- Chinese: “格里斐斯天文臺”
- Chinese: “格里菲斯天文台”
- Chinese: “格里菲斯天文臺”
- Dutch: “Griffith-observatorium”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مرصد جريفيث”
- Esperanto: “Observatorio Griffith”
- Estonian: “Griffithi observatoorium”
- Finnish: “Griffithin observatorio”
- French: “observatoire Griffith”
- French: “Observatoire Griffith”
- German: “Griffith Observatory”
- German: “Griffith-Observatorium”
- Greek: “Αστεροσκοπείο Γκρίφιθ”
- Hebrew: “מצפה הכוכבים גריפית‘”
- Hungarian: “Griffith Obszervatórium”
- Indonesian: “Observatorium Griffith”
- Italian: “osservatorio di Griffith”
- Italian: “Osservatorio di Griffith”
- Italian: “Osservatorio Griffith”
- Japanese: “グリフィス天文台”
- Korean: “그리피스 천문대”
- Lithuanian: “Grifito observatorija”
- Luxembourgish: “Griffith Observatoire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Griffith-observatoriet”
- Norwegian: “Griffith-observatoriet”
- Persian: “رصدخانه گریفیتس”
- Polish: “Obserwatorium Griffitha”
- Portuguese: “Observatório Griffith”
- Romanian: “Observatorul Griffith”
- Russian: “Обсерватория Гриффита”
- Sinhala: “ග්රිෆිත් ආකාශවස්තු නිරීක්ෂණාගාරය”
- Spanish: “Observatorio Griffith”
- Swahili: “Griffith Observatory”
- Swahili: “Paoneaanga pa Griffith”
- Swedish: “Griffith Observatory”
- Thai: “หอดูดาวกริฟฟิท”
- Ukrainian: “Обсерваторія Гриффіта”
- Ukrainian: “Обсерваторія Ґриффіта”
- Urdu: “گریفتھ آبزرویٹری”
- Welsh: “Arsyllfa Griffith”
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