{"id":5639,"date":"2021-05-16T22:59:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T14:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2021-10-17T02:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T18:15:54","slug":"20210516la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/16\/20210516la\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 of 2021 Los Angeles Trip: Parker Mesa Overlook and Griffith Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday May 16, 2021. My other friends that lived around Los Angeles area were busy, so I spent the day between hiking and resting on the beach, before heading to Griffith Observatory for Los Angeles’ skyline at night.
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<\/br>Downtown Los Angeles at Night<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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With my friends busy and I by myself, I resorted to my favorite activity of hiking to kill the day, before flying back to east coast tomorrow morning. Originally, I hoped to hike Cucamonga Peak for today. It\u2019s a 21.2km roundtrip hike with 1313m elevation gain. Feeling a bit tired from yesterday\u2019s activities, I didn\u2019t manage to wake up early enough this morning for Cucamonga Peak, so I resorted to my backup option of Parker Mesa Overlook, located along the pacific shore in Topanga State Park.<\/p>\n

Hiking Parker Mesa Overlook<\/span><\/h3>\n

I started my hike at “Los Leones Trailhead”. While the official parking lot was small, there was ample street parking available along Los Leones Dr. The other trailhead of the park, “Paseo Miramar Trailhead”, was located in a residential neighborhood and had no public parking.<\/span>
\nI decided to take the shorter but steeper “El Ocaso Trail” up to Parker Mesa Overlook, then take the “Paseo Miramar Trail” fireroad down, making it an 8km loop trail with about 400m elevation gain.<\/p>\n

Here’s GPS tracking:
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