Franklin Canyon Park

Usually when it comes to going out I will explore and stumble upon some "new" place. Rarely do i ever read emails of "Best Places to see" and other articles like that. That changed recently as i read through the February issue of "Los Angeles" magazine. The theme of this issue was 'Your guide to Hidden LA: 65 secret places to escape from it all'. I quickly browsed through the subcategories, bars, museums, outdoors, etc. and a few places caught my eye. So we decided to pursue one destination and headed out to Beverly Hills -Franklin Canyon Park. Its a short drive off the 101 up and down a winding road leaving you smack dab in the middle of a beautiful canyon. I have probably passed this place 100 times in my life and never would have expected to see what i saw. The walk is pretty calm but once you go in the trails its up and down with alot of stairs. 

After about a mile or so we found a small pond and the noises coming from around the corner were nothing we've ever heard before. 

This is just a short clip because i was so drawn to the sound that i couldn't pull my phone out and 

record it

Once you reach the middle of the canyon you stumble upon a large pond and the sceneery was quite relaxing.

Nice right??

The walk back was much tougher because it was mostly uphill, it was a definite deep burn on the way back haha. On of the strangest things was the out house available for restroom use.

Natalie sat where there was suppossed to be NO PARKING

It was a great outdoor experience / exercise / escape from everything

You can also drive the entire canyon (minus the trails of course) and it leaves you off on Beverly. From there we cruised Beverly Hills and Rodeo drive and its surroundings. On that trek we ran into once of the few new BANKSY pieces on the way.

That was a cool find.

Aside from turning to Los Angeles Magazine for advice i have become very fond of the Yelp application on my Droid and have been constantly using it for recommendations to try new places. We were both in the mood for Pizza and were being guided to this "gourmet" pizza spot on Highland and upon arrival we were shown that it wasn't a place for us considering we had a few hour hike and we had no reservation. Back to Yelp we went and got directed to the next closest place Joe's Pizza on Sunset. I must have passed this place 500+ times in my lifetime and never have stopped. It's dubbed as the best "New York Style" in LA , now neither of us have been to New York so we have nothing to compare it to but i will say one thing ......... It was pretty DAMN good and very fairly priced. I had the Cheese and Natalie had the Pepperoni. Worth the $2 a slice .

Overall another great day 

Til the next one...

-Joey