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LOCAL SPOTLIGHT – BEVERLY GARDENS PARK
Beverly Gardens Park is a public park in the Beverly Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
A section of Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas has been developed. It first opened its doors in 1911. Beverly Gardens Park is a 22-block park that runs for 1.9 miles along Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California (3.1 km). Ralph D. Cornell, a landscape architect, designed it.
The park provides a long green swath between the city’s northern residential region and its business districts. It includes a two-mile jogging trail, gardens, art, and the enormous, iconic Beverly Hills Sign, a re-creation of the original arching, lit historic sign constructed near the city’s center.
The Beverly Hills Art Show, a semiannual art festival, takes place on the park’s central blocks every third weekend in May and every third weekend in October. Approximately 250 artists from Los Angeles and across the United States are chosen to exhibit their work, and up to 50,000 people attend the event.
The Electric Fountain, located at the extreme west end of the linear park, at the intersection of Santa Monica and Wilshire Boulevards, is part of a permanent collection of public art. Hymn to Life, a sculpture of psychedelic tulips by Yayoi Kusama along Rodeo Drive, was sculpted and constructed in the Ironwood art department by Mat McKim and Nick Petronzio. On the garden grounds of Beverly Hills City Hall, sculptors such as Barry Flanagan, Tony Smith, and Magdalena Abramovicz have placed modern public art. Along the north side of Santa Monica Boulevard, from Doheny Drive to Whittier Drive, cars and pedestrians may see historic fountains, historic arbors, and specialty gardens devoted to roses, cactus, succulents, and palms.
Contact Information
9439 Santa Monica Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 288-2220
