Sunshine Canyon Landfill

The Sunshine Canyon Landfill is situated on a 1,036-acre site in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Granada Hills, just south of Newhall Pass. The landfill was commissioned in 1958 and serves Los Angeles County.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Beale’s Cut Stagecoach Pass and Newhall Pass.

Beale’s Cut Stagecoach Pass

Historic site

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Beale's Cut Stagecoach Pass is a stagecoach pass built in 1859 in what is now Santa Clarita, California. The Pass was designated a California Historical Landmark on May 11, 1992. Beale’s Cut Stagecoach Pass is situated 1¼ miles north of Sunshine Canyon Landfill.

Newhall Pass

Mountain saddle

Photo: Andrewaronoshn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Newhall Pass is a low mountain pass in Los Angeles County, California. Historically called Fremont Pass and San Fernando Pass, with Beale's Cut, it separates the Santa Susana Mountains from the San Gabriel Mountains.

Mission Point

Peak

Photo: Jordan Brown, Public domain.

Mission Point, better known as "Mission Peak" to locals, is a spur of Oat Mountain in Los Angeles County, Southern California. At 2,771 feet high, it is the second highest peak of the Santa Susana Mountains after Oat Mountain. Mission Point is situated 1½ miles southwest of Sunshine Canyon Landfill.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Newhall and Sylmar.

Newhall

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Newhall is the southernmost and oldest community in the city of Santa Clarita, California. Prior to the 1987 consolidation of Canyon Country, Saugus, Newhall, and Valencia into the city of Santa Clarita, it was an unincorporated area. Newhall is situated 3½ miles north of Sunshine Canyon Landfill.

Sylmar

Suburb

Photo: TKirby, CC BY 3.0.

Sylmar is a suburban neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley and the northernmost neighborhood within the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. Sylmar is situated 4 miles east of Sunshine Canyon Landfill.

Porter Ranch

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Porter Ranch is a suburban neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles, in the northwest portion of the San Fernando Valley. Porter Ranch is situated 4 miles southwest of Sunshine Canyon Landfill.

Sunshine Canyon Landfill

Type: Landfill
Description: landfill in Los Angeles, California
Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

34.32756° or 34° 19′ 39″ north

Longitude

-118.51501° or 118° 30′ 54″ west

Elevation

1,660 feet (506 metres)

Open location code

85638FHM+2X

OpenStreetMap ID

way 220684352

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=landfill

GeoNames ID

8500307

Wikidata ID

Q24192763

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