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 a significant number of films, songs, and novels. David Lynch, who wrote and directed a film named after Mulholland Drive, has said that one can feel "the history of Hollywood" on it. Jack Nicholson has lived on Mulholland Drive for many years, and still did so as of 2009.
View of Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles from Mulholland Drive near its eastern terminus
View at dusk from Mulholland Drive across the southeast San Fernando Valley
San Fernando Valley at night from Mulholland Drive
A Mulholland Drive street sign in a residential neighborhood in Woodland Hills.
The Santa Monica Mountains are a coastal mountain range in Southern California, next to the Pacific Ocean. It is part of the Transverse Ranges. The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area encompasses this mountain range. Because of its proximity to densely populated regions, it is one of the most visited natural areas in California.
Malibu Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains
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Snow in the Santa Monica Mountains in 2007.
Boney Mountain is sacred to the Chumash people.