Roads off
Mulholland Drive
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Beverly
Glen: Rates 0 on our 5 scale
Coldwater: Rates 0 on our 5 scale
Laurel: Rates 0 on our 5 scale
There are no north-south access roads connecting San Fernando Valley to Santa Monica, between Topanga Canyon and Hwy 405. Just east of the 405, though, hundreds proliferate that connect Sherman Oaks to the greater Los Angeles Basin. Henceforth, real estate prices are astronomical, everywhere you see, on the map, above.
The canyon roads you see above were terrific back in the 60s. During the 1970s, what we liked about running our street races there, was that we could so easily scurry off like cock roaches when detected, using the tight, narrow, intricate menagerie of interconnecting streets that made it all but impossible for overweight police cruisers to round us up. Take a close look at the map, above... look at all those twisty, interconnected streets. It looks like pasta in your collander. No way a big police cruiser is going stay with a prepared Datsun 510, a Cosworth Vega, a 911, or a Lotus Europa through that mess. There are so many roads running off Mulholland Drive, between Cahuenga and Hwy 405, a brave, competent young driver in a lightweight automobile could emerge almost anywhere, undetected. Not anymore (the traffic).
Today, this area is far to densly populated for these shenanigans. Running during morning or wee hours, sprinkler runoff is commonplace. These roads now serve affluent residents of Sherman Oaks, who lumber to and fro the Los Angeles basin in their big Mercs, Caddies, BMWs, Lincolns, Land Rovers and limousines.
If you plan to take a caravan of cars across Mulholland Drive, using Beverly Glen, Coldwater, or Laurel, then depart during off-peak traffic hours, or your caravan will become hopelessly fractured by traffic meters and stop signs. This area is now a heavily patrolled, densely populated, exclusive residential enclave of the beautiful people. Nonetheless, they are terrific streets to peruse at a casual or brisk pace... but certainly not at 10/10ths.
It's definitely worthwhile poking around this residential enclave, though. Terrific place to live. There are some very nice vistas, looking to the north from Mulholland Drive.
~ Map plot on our Geography page
If your poking around looking for those secret web pages, well, it's hard to tell you whether your getting warmer or colder. But, you are in the general vicinity of two of them.