The Santa Monica Mountains: Range on the Edge

The Santa Monica Mountains is the only range that transverses a major metropolitan city in North America, slicing Los Angeles and defining it, shaping its hills and its valleys, its canyons and its ocean front. The mountains are dotted with mountain lions, bobcats and mule deer, rock singers, movie stars and writers, lilies, oaks and steelhead trout, bikers, hikers and grizzled peaks. Along the course of its 46-mile span, the range encompasses Dodger Stadium, Griffith Park, Laurel and Coldwater canyons, the Hollywood Sign, Beverly Hills, the Getty Museum, Pacific Palisades and Malibu, to name only a few points of iconic interest. This is the story of a magnificent range on the edge of America’s edgiest city.–From publisher description.