Laurel Canyon Boulevard - Laurel Canyon Freeway

Laurel Canyon Freeway

The Laurel Canyon Freeway was to have been a north-south freeway in Los Angeles and its suburbs. Its proposed alignment was from the intersection of the Hollywood Freeway (U.S. Route 101) and the Ventura Freeway (California State Route 134) in the southeastern San Fernando Valley to the San Diego Freeway (I-405) near Los Angeles International Airport. It derived its name from Laurel Canyon, the proposed route by which the freeway would traverse the Santa Monica Mountains. However, the emerging popularity of Laurel Canyon as a movie star enclave in the 1960s ultimately doomed the project. The only portion of the freeway that was built was a small section of La Cienega Boulevard through the Baldwin Hills district of southwestern Los Angeles.

Streets in Los Angeles
Numbered streets
  • 1–10
    • 1st
    • 3rd
  • 11–40
  • 41–250
  • The Avenues
North-south streets
  • Alameda St.
  • Alvarado St.
  • Avalon Blvd.
  • Aviation Blvd.
  • Beverly Dr.
  • Broadway
  • Cahuenga Blvd.
  • Central Ave.
  • Crenshaw Blvd.
  • Doheny Dr.
  • Fairfax Ave.
  • Figueroa St.
  • Glendale Blvd./Brand Blvd.
  • Gower St.
  • Grand Avenue
  • Highland Ave.
  • Hill St.
  • Hoover St.
  • La Brea Ave./Hawthorne Blvd.
  • La Cienega Blvd.
  • Laurel Canyon Blvd./Crescent Heights Blvd.
  • Lincoln Blvd.
  • Los Angeles St.
  • Main St.
  • Normandie Ave.
  • Ocean Ave.
  • Robertson Blvd.
  • San Fernando Rd.
  • San Pedro St.
  • Sawtelle Blvd.
  • Sepulveda Blvd.
  • Soto St./Huntington Dr.
  • Pacific Blvd./Long Beach Blvd.
  • Vermont Ave.
  • Vine St.
  • Western Ave.
  • Westwood Blvd.
East-west streets
  • Adams Blvd.
  • Alondra Blvd.
  • Artesia Blvd.
  • Bandini Blvd.
  • Beverly Blvd.
  • Carroll Ave.
  • Carson St.
  • Century Blvd.
  • Compton Blvd./Marine Ave.
  • Del Amo Blvd.
  • El Segundo Blvd.
  • Florence Ave.
  • Franklin Ave.
  • Hollywood Blvd.
  • Imperial Hwy.
  • Jefferson Blvd.
  • Lomita Blvd.
  • Los Feliz Blvd.
  • Manchester Ave./Firestone Blvd.
  • Manhattan Beach Blvd.
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
  • Melrose Ave.
  • Montana Ave.
  • Mulholland Dr.
  • Nadeau St.
  • Olympic Blvd.
  • Pico Blvd.
  • Rosecrans Ave.
  • Santa Monica Blvd.
  • Slauson Ave.
  • Sunset Blvd./Cesar Chavez Ave.
  • Temple St.
  • Valley Blvd.
  • Vernon Ave.
  • Venice Blvd.
  • Washington Blvd.
  • Whittier Blvd.
  • Wilshire Blvd.
The Valleys
  • Balboa Blvd.
  • Beverly Glen Blvd.
  • Cahuenga Blvd.
  • Colorado Blvd.
  • Foothill Blvd.
  • Glenoaks Blvd.
  • Huntington Dr.
  • Lankershim Blvd.
  • Laurel Canyon Blvd.
  • Mulholland Dr.
  • Reseda Blvd.
  • Riverside Dr.
  • San Fernando Rd.
  • Sepulveda Blvd.
  • Sunland Blvd./Vineland Ave.
  • Topanga Canyon Blvd.
  • Valley Blvd.
  • Van Nuys Blvd.
  • Ventura Blvd.
  • Victory Blvd.
Diagonal streets
  • Centinela Ave. (Bundy Drive)
  • San Vicente Blvd.
Streets in San Pedro
  • Gaffey St.
  • Western Ave.
Alleyways
  • Olvera St.
  • Santee Alley

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