Hollywood Sign via Cahuenga Peak
Hollywood Hills, Griffith Park · near Los Angeles (Hollywood Hills) · Los Angeles / SoCal
Hiking
At a glance
- Difficulty
- strenuous
- Route type
- out-and-back
- Distance
- 6.5 miles
- Elevation gain
- 1,100 ft
- Time needed
- day
- Best season
- Fall–spring · Avoid midday summer (exposed, no shade/water)
Permits and booking
- Permit required
- No
- How the permit works
- No permit. The old Beachwood/Hollyridge trailhead has been closed to sign-hikers since 2017 — use the legal Wonder View/Burbank Peak, Canyon Drive/Brush Canyon, or Innsdale→Mt Lee Dr approaches. You cannot legally stand on or directly below the letters.
- How hard the permit is to get
- 0 of 5
What is here
- Features
- Wisdom Tree (lone survivor tree) · Cahuenga Peak (1,821 ft — highest in Griffith Park) · Closest legal views behind/above the Hollywood Sign · Steep ridgeline
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Allowed
- Good for a first timer
- No
Hiking detail
- Intl tip
- The payoff is the view from Mt Lee behind and above the sign — the letters themselves are fenced and off-limits. For the easiest legal parking use Canyon Drive/Brush Canyon; for a stroller-friendly fire road use Innsdale→Mt Lee Dr.
The guide
The gutsiest way to the Sign: a lung-busting straight-up climb to the solitary Wisdom Tree, then a knife-edge ridge over Cahuen…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Hollywood Sign via Cahuenga Peak — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 34.133, -118.3219