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Cahuenga Peak, just west of the Hollywood Sign, is the highest point in Griffith Park and the 12th-highest named peak in the Santa Monica Mountains, with sweeping views over the Los Angeles Basin and San Fernando Valley. Its modern significance centers on a preservation fight. After Howard Hughes bought the land in the 1940s and left it undeveloped, later plans for luxury homes on a 138-acre ridge parcel sparked a public campaign to save it as open space. The effort succeeded in 2010, adding more than 100 acres to Griffith Park. The peak also protects habitat for rare plants, coast horned lizards, and the echo blue butterfly.
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