Ever since I moved to Echo Park 15 years ago, I’ve been living with and utterly failing to come to terms with the huge landmass that is Elysian Park. Most of L.A. only thinks it knows what’s here—cops ...

I’m the president of the Friends of Elysian Park, a volunteer organization formed in the mid-1960s to prevent a convention center from being built in the city’s oldest public park. Since then, along ...

Hi — I’m Deborah Vankin, a wellness writer for the L.A. Times. I’m not sure about you, but 2025 has been a whopper of a year so far. Especially since the fires in January forced us indoors, robbing us ...

Last week, I shared with you all the mystery of Elysian Park’s disappearing roads named after celebrities of the Greco-Roman era. In casting my street-mystery net into the sea of L.A. history sages, ...

Dozens of volunteers spent Sunday creating Elysian Park’s first monarch butterfly habitat, planting some 200 milkweed plants. Western monarch populations in California have been dwindling for decades ...

Throughout Los Angeles, people stopped to remember the tragic date, Sept. 11, and at the Los Angeles City Fire Department’s memorial in Elysian Park many leaders including Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ...