Chatsworth, Los Angeles Chatsworth neighborhood as mapped by the Los Angeles Times Chatsworth neighborhood as mapped by the Los Angeles Times Chatsworth is positioned in San Fernando Valley Chatsworth - Chatsworth Chatsworth is a neighborhood in the northwestern San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California.
Distinctive features are the former Chatsworth Reservoir, the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and a number of private businesses.
The Simi Hills, and unincorporated Los Angeles County and Ventura County on the west.
Twin Lakes, a improve established by San Francisco's George Haight in the early 20th Century and unincorporated Los Angeles County including a 1,600 acre park with equestrian trails to the North.
With its establishment in 1797 and subsequent Spanish Land Grant by the King of Spain, Mission San Fernando (Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana) attained dominion over the San Fernando Valley's lands, including future Chatsworth.
Old Santa Susana Stage Road trail up scenic Simi Hills in Chatsworth The Native American trail that had existed from the Tongva-Tatavium village called rancheria Santa Susana (Chatsworth) to another village, replaced by Mission San Fernando, became the route for missionaries and other Spanish travel up and down California.
It was part of the El Camino del Santa Susana y Simi trail that connected the Valley's Mission, Los Angeles pueblo (town), and the southern missions with the Mission San Buenaventura, the Presidio of Monterey, and the northward missions.
The trail crossed over the Santa Susana Pass to the Simi Valley, through present day town/city park Chatsworth Park South and the Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park.
It was bounded on the north by Rancho San Francisco and the Santa Susana Mountains, on the west by the Simi Hills, on the east by Rancho Tujunga, and on the south by the Montanas de Portesuelo (Santa Monica Mountains).
De Celis, returned from Spain to Los Angeles. In 1874, the family sold their northern half of Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando to northern Californians, California State Senator Charles Maclay and his partners George K.
The Old Santa Susana Stage Road or Santa Susana Wagon Road continued in use as an alternative to the route along El Camino Viejo from 1861 to 1875, replacing the older road as the chief route between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
In 1876, the Southern Pacific Railroad opened a tunnel through the Newhall Pass, enabling rail connections from Los Angeles north to San Francisco, and rail travel soon replaced travel by stagecoach between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The Chatsworth name, which hails from the stately Chatsworth House in England, was first recorded in 1888, when George R.
Crow filed with the Los Angeles County Recorder's Office a map of the San Fernando Valley with a subdivision he called "Chatsworth Park." Barber, the president of the San Fernando Valley Improvement Company who was believed to be from England, filed an additional map with the Recorder's Office called the "Plat of Chatsworth Park Townsite." Initially called El Camino Nuevo (the New Road), it was later titled the Chatsworth Grade Road, which continued in use until Santa Susana Pass Road (now Old Santa Susana Pass Road) was assembled in 1917. The Chatsworth Branch Library, directed by the Los Angeles Public Library, is positioned at 21052 Devonshire Street. It was rebuilt in a undivided style in 2002. The Chatsworth Transportation Center, a primary transportation core for the town and west valley, is served by 20 daily trains on the Metrolink Ventura County Line from Ventura to Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles.
The Orange Line of the Los Angeles Metro fitness was extended to Chatsworth Station in 2012, with a dedicated right-of-way athwart the Valley to North Hollywood Station of the Red Line subway. The Chatsworth Transportation Center also offers connections to a several Los Angeles Metro, Simi Valley, and Santa Clarita bus routes.
Chatsworth Park Elementary School, 22005 Devonshire Street The City of Los Angeles Parks and Recreation Department, California Department of Parks and Recreation, County of Los Angeles, California State Park Volunteers, and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy operate the various natural open space preserve parks and neighborhood recreation parks.
West Chatsworth and the Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park; with the Old Santa Susana Stage Road in red Chatsworth Park North: includes more than 20 acres (81,000 m2) of the scenic Simi Hills and is directed by the Los Angeles Parks Department. has three baseball diamonds, football field, and outside basketball courts, all lighted; volleyball courts, a children's play area, hiking trails, a jogging path, and picnic tables with barbecue pits. The park now has fencing that blocks visitors from climbing the large boulder outcrops, but Stoney Point Park and Chatsworth Park South are close-by for bouldering and rockclimbing.
Chatsworth Park South: includes more than 100 acres (0.40 km2) of the rocky landmark Simi Hills. Chatsworth Park South is adjoining to the Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park, a 174-acre (0.70 km2) National Register of Historic Places property consisting of historic features and deposits, prehistoric village site remnants, and portions of the Old Santa Susana Stage Road, which was the chief route for mail and travelers between Los Angeles and San Francisco from 1861 until the opening of rail connections between the two metros/cities in 1876.
The stage route was also declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #92 (designated January 5, 1972) and Ventura County Historical Landmark #104 (designated October 21, 1986). The park has miles of horseback, jogging, and hiking trails, picnic tables and barbecue pits, and bouldering outcrops. Chatsworth Recreation Center facilities are positioned inside the lower region of Chatsworth Park South, with lighted indoor basketball courts, lighted outside basketball courts, a children's play area, an indoor gymnasium, a stage, and lighted tennis courts. The Minnie Hill Palmer House, one of the West Valley's historic initial homestead homes, is in Chatsworth Park South for visits and the Chatsworth Historical Society archives.
The park has been closed since February 2008 due to contamination identified from when the park used to be a shooting range for Roy Rogers. Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park (SSPSHP): a large natural region adjoining to and above the town's side. The Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park protects and offers a historical site of the late 19th century, when Chatsworth was on a chief thoroughfare for the figures of the American West.
The Old Stagecoach Trail above Chatsworth to the west, is now a prominent hiking trail in the Simi Hills.
It goes through Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park and Chatsworth Park South and by Chatsworth Oaks Park.
The State Park is open to the enhance with a several parking and trailhead areas and many hiking and view opportunities. Chatsworth Oaks Park: an approximately 3-acre (1.2 ha) natural open space park.
Visitors may ride bicycles and hike in the park, which has no established trails but links to close-by Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park.
The park overlooks the Chatsworth Nature Preserve, with birdwatching opportunities. Stoney Point Park in Chatsworth.
The park also has bridle paths, hiking trails, and connections to adjoining parks to the north. Stoney Point is the site of the Tongva settlement titled Asha'awanga or Momonga. Chatsworth Trails Park: in the Santa Susana Mountains foothills just north of the 118 Freeway with parking at 11200 Mayan Drive.
Chatsworth Trails Park has miles of horseback, hiking, and mountain biking trails and is also a core connecting to the huge Michael D.
Antonovich Regional Park at Joughin Ranch, the Indian Springs Open Space Park, and Rocky Peak Park at Rocky Peak. The Rim of the Valley Trail passes through here, with trailhead access. Sage Ranch Park: overlooks Chatsworth from its 2,000-foot (610 m) high ridges in the Simi Hills near the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.
Sage Ranch Park has campsites, walking and hiking trails, and panoramic views of the San Fernando and Simi Valleys. Located in Simi Valley, CA.
A distinct ive feature in Chatsworth is the Chatsworth Dam and reservoir.
Built in 1918 as part of the Los Angeles Aqueduct system, the property belongs to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
After the 1971 San Fernando earthquake additional concerns for seismic safety led to its abandonment by the LADWP as a storage facility. Chatsworth Oaks Park and the Chatsworth Nature Preserve are positioned here giving views of migrating birds and other animals, and their sounds such as the coyotes calling in the evening.
Chatsworth Reservoir is classified by the Los Angeles Times as a town/city neighborhood, but "because there are mostly several homes in this area," the Times does not furnish separate statistics for it but adds them to Chatsworth. The Devonshire and Topanga stations of the Los Angeles Police Department furnish services in the area. The Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), once busy with Rocketdyne testing rocket engines and Atomics International doing nuclear research, is quiet and high in the Simi Hills west of Chatsworth. It has been closed and will be undergoing an extensive surroundingal cleanup, and turn into an open-space park. The park will permanently add to Chatsworth's scenic backdrop, greenway, and hiking opportunities. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, famed dance team and Hollywood legends, both are buried in Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, as are other motion-picture stars, including Gloria Grahame and Stephen Boyd, as well as film and cartoon composer Scott Bradley.
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