Baldwin Hills (mountain range)

Baldwin Hills
Baldwin Hills
	Baldwin Hills Location of the Baldwin Hills in California
Highest point
Elevation	103 m (338 ft)
Geography
Country	United States
State	California
District	Los Angeles County
Topo map	USGS Inglewood

The Baldwin Hills are a low mountain range surrounded by and rising above the Los Angeles Basin plain in central Los Angeles County, California.^[1] The Pacific Ocean is to the west, the Santa Monica Mountains to the north, Downtown Los Angeles to the northeast, and the Palos Verdes Hills to the south - with all easily viewed from the Baldwin Hills.

Geography

The headwaters of Ballona Creek are in the hills, which then flows west into the Santa Monica Bay. La Cienega Boulevard goes through a pass in the hills between the Westside and the Southwestern area towns and Los Angeles International Airport. It passes the oil wells of the Inglewood Oil Field in the southern Baldwin Hills.

Rancho La Cienega o Paso de la Tijera - eastern area^[2]^[3]
Sanchez Adobe de Rancho La Cienega o Paso de la Tijera. The adobe was once the center of the rancho. In the 1920s, an addition was built linking the structures and the building was converted into a larger clubhouse for the Sunset Golf Course.^[2]
Rancho Rincon de los Bueyes - western area
The hills are the location of the Baldwin Hills Dam failure and subsequent 1963 Baldwin Hills Reservoir flooding disaster.^[4]

Kenneth Hahn State Regional Park - recreation and sports areas, and preservation of the open-space lands and native habitats: entrance on South La Cienega Boulevard.^[5]
official Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook Park website - entrance on Jefferson Boulevard; trail map
Norman O Houston Park website
Jim Gilliam Recreation Center website