Mount Washington
Mount Washington is a historic neighborhood in the San Rafael Hills of Northeast Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1909, it includes the Southwest Museum, the world headquarters of the Self-Realization Fellowship, and Eldred Street, one of the three steepest streets in the United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Neighborhood with 12,700 residents
- Description: neighborhood of Los Angeles
- Also known as: “Mount Washington, Los Angeles”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cypress Park Branch and Southwest Museum station.
Southwest Museum station
Railway station
Photo: Supykun, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Southwest Museum station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located near the intersection of Marmion Way at Museum Drive in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Heritage Square station
Railway station
Photo: HanSangYoon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Heritage Square station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located at the intersection of French Avenue and Pasadena Avenue in the western Montecito Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cypress Park and Elysian Valley Recreation Center.
Cypress Park
Quarter
Photo: GTD Aquitaine, Public domain.
Cypress Park is a densely populated neighborhood of 10,000+ residents in Northeast Los Angeles, California. Surrounded by hills on three sides, it sits in the valley created by the Los Angeles River and the Arroyo Seco.
Elysian Valley Recreation Center
Quarter
Elysian Valley, commonly known as Frogtown, is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California, adjoining the Los Angeles River. It has a series of parks maintained by the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority, as well as The Elysian Valley Bicycle & Pedestrian Path.
Highland Park
Suburb
Photo: Los Angeles, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Highland Park is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, located in the city's Northeast region. It was one of the first subdivisions of Los Angeles and is inhabited by a variety of ethnic and socioeconomic groups. Highland Park is situated 1½ miles northeast of Mount Washington.
Mount Washington
- Categories: district or neighborhood of Los Angeles and locality
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.09884° or 34° 5′ 56″ northLongitude
-118.22111° or 118° 13′ 16″ westPopulation
12,700Elevation
771 feet (235 metres)Open location code
85633QXH+GHOpenStreetMap ID
node 150961129OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
5375335Wikidata ID
Q5579890
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Mount Washington” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Washington”
- Chinese: “華盛頓山”
- German: “Mount Washington”
- Italian: “Mount Washington”
- Japanese: “マウント・ワシントン”
- Turkish: “Mount Washington, Los Angeles”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Washington”. Photo: Mfield, CC BY-SA 3.0.