Griffith Park is a four-thousand-three-hundred-ten-acre municipal park in Los Angeles that combines major attractions with extensive undeveloped hillsides, making it one of North America’s most recognizable urban parks. The land was originally within Tongva territory, and the modern park began when Griffith J. Griffith donated three-thousand-fifteen acres in 1896 for public use regardless of race, creed, or color. Later donations and purchases expanded it, while landmarks such as the Greek Theatre and Griffith Observatory helped define its identity. Its history also includes early aviation, wartime detention and prisoner processing, protest against police harassment, devastating fires, and ongoing restoration, preserving it as both civic space and urban wilderness.

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