Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles
Sunland-Tujunga is a Los Angeles city neighborhood within the Crescenta Valley and Verdugo Mountains. Sunland and Tujunga began as separate settlements and today are linked through a single police station, branch library, neighborhood council, chamber of commerce, city council district, and high school. The merging of these communities under a hyphenated name goes back as far as 1928. Sunland-Tujunga contains the highest point of the city, Mount Lukens.
Historic Bolton Hall in Tujunga, 2008
M.V. Hartranft, for whom Hartranft Avenue was named
Monte Vista Hotel, 1880s
John Steven McGroarty, a Tujunga-based poet laureate, in 1893
The Verdugo Mountains, also known as the Verdugo Hills or simply The Verdugos, are a small, rugged mountain range of the Transverse Ranges system in Los Angeles County, California. Located just south of the western San Gabriel Mountains, the Verdugo Mountains region incorporates the cities of Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, and La Cañada Flintridge; the unincorporated communities of Altadena and La Crescenta-Montrose; as well as the City of Los Angeles neighborhood of Sunland-Tujunga.
Verdugo Mountains, south view
View of Verdugo Mountains from Normandie Ave, Los Angeles
An adult female mountain lion is "cheek-rubbing," leaving her scent on a log. Taken in the Verdugo Mountains with Glendale and downtown L.A. in the background. - National Park Service
Two gray foxes in the Verdugo Mountains with Los Angeles in the background. - National Park Service