Fossil Ridge Park
park in Sherman Oaks, California, United States
Fossil Ridge Park is a public property in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles County, California. It is owned by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, which is a California state agency.
Location
It is located on the corner of Mulholland Drive and Beverly Glen Boulevard in Sherman Oaks, a neighbourhood of the city of Los Angeles.
At the northern end of the park is the Buckley School, a private school. On the east side is Mulholland Estates, a gated community. Access to the park used to be blocked by security guards at Mulholland Estates. However, since 2011, members of the public are allowed to drive or walk on Westpark Road, which is inside Mulholland Estates, to have access to the park. However, parking on Westpark Road is not allowed.
Since 2002, it has been adjacent to the Oak Forest Canyon Natural Area that is also owned by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. Oak Forest Canyon was purchased to facilitate access to Fossil Ridge Park.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Fossil Ridge Park” as park in Sherman Oaks, California, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as park in Sherman Oaks, California, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18148524. Authority coordinates are 34.136, -118.443. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 2002.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Fossil Ridge Park” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.