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Coldwater Canyon () is a
canyon A canyon (; archaic British English spelling: ''cañon''), gorge or chasm, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Rivers have a natural tendency t ...
running perpendicular to and over the central Santa Monica Mountains, in
Los Angeles County, California Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles and sometimes abbreviated as LA County, is the List of United States counties and county equivalents, most populous county in the United States, with 9,663,345 residents estimated in 202 ...
, United States. A section of the canyon south of Mulholland Drive is also a
neighborhood A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neigh ...
in the Beverly Crest Neighborhood Council of the City of Los Angeles. Hidden Valley is the area "just below Mulholland on the west side of Coldwater" that used to be Myrna Loy's estate.


Geography

The canyon is traversed via Coldwater Canyon Drive and Coldwater Canyon Avenue (linked by a short section of Mulholland Drive), which connects the city of
Beverly Hills Beverly Hills is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. A notable and historic suburb of Los Angeles, it is located just southwest of the Hollywood Hills, approximately northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Beverly Hil ...
and the Westside, with the Studio City neighborhood and the
San Fernando Valley The San Fernando Valley, known locally as the Valley, is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, Los Angeles County, California. Situated to the north of the Los Angeles Basin, it comprises a large portion of Los Angeles, the Municipal corpo ...
. The canyon is drained Coldwater Canyon Creek, a tributary of Ballona Creek. Coldwater Canyon Creek is considered an intermittent stream, "flowing southward and southeastward into Rodeo de las Aguas Rancho. Near the mouth of its canyon it receives streams draining Franklin and Higgins canyons."


History

Fishermen found a good quantity of speckled trout in Coldwater Creek in 1888. There was a rock quarry in the canyon in the 1890s. For much of the first half of the 20th century, the canyon was defined by "orange groves and bridle paths." There were four houses in the canyon around 1908. & It snowed in Coldwater Canyon in 1934. There was a "vice joint" affiliated with mobster Mickey Cohen located in the canyon around 1944. In 1954 Jack Palance's wife (Virginia Baker Palance) discovered and reported a brushfire in the canyon that burned 20 acres and destroyed one home before it was extinguished.


See also

* Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas * Benedict Canyon * Laurel Canyon * Nichols Canyon * Franklin Canyon * Mandeville Canyon * Neighborhoods in Los Angeles, California *


References

{{Authority control Canyons and gorges of California Santa Monica Mountains Landforms of Los Angeles County, California Geography of Los Angeles San Fernando Valley Neighborhoods in Los Angeles Populated places in the Santa Monica Mountains Beverly Crest, Los Angeles Beverly Hills, California Studio City, Los Angeles Streets in Los Angeles County, California