Shortly thereafter, the thoroughfare splits into Mulholland Drive and Mulholland Highway. The road opens again east of Topanga Canyon Boulevard (State Route 27) at Santa Maria Road but remains dirt until it reaches Saltillo Street. (This portion of Mulholland Drive was open to through traffic as late as the 1990s before being permanently closed to motor vehicles so that they would no longer interfere with the natural beauty and wilderness of the area.) This portion connects with other unpaved roads and bike trails and allows access to a decommissioned Project Nike command post that is now a Cold War memorial park.
This part is known by many as "Dirt Mulholland". Just west of the intersection with Encino Hills Drive, it becomes an unpaved road not open to motor vehicles. The road winds along the top of the mountains until a few miles west of the San Diego/ Interstate 405 Freeway. The road continues to the west, offering vistas of the Hollywood Sign, Downtown Los Angeles, and then Burbank, Universal City, and the rest of the San Fernando Valley with the San Gabriel, Verdugo, and Santa Susana Mountains. The eastern terminus of Mulholland Drive is at its intersection with Cahuenga Boulevard at the Cahuenga Pass over the Santa Monica Mountains (at this point Cahuenga Boulevard runs adjacent to Highway 101/The Hollywood Freeway). DeWitt Reaburn, the construction engineer responsible for the project, said while it was being built, "The Mulholland Highway is destined to be one of the heaviest traveled and one of the best known scenic roads in the United States."Ī Mulholland Drive street sign in a residential neighborhood in Woodland Hills. It was built by a consortium of developers investing in the Hollywood Hills. The main portion of the road, from Cahuenga Pass in Hollywood westward past Sepulveda Pass, was originally called Mulholland Highway and was opened in 1924.
Academy Award–winning actor Jack Nicholson has resided at Mulholland Drive for many years and still lives there today. David Lynch, who wrote and directed a film named after Mulholland Drive, has said that one can feel "the history of Hollywood" on it. The road is featured in a significant number of films, songs, and novels. The western rural portion in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties is named Mulholland Highway. It is named after pioneering Los Angeles civil engineer William Mulholland. Mulholland Drive is a street and road in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California. View of Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles from Mulholland Drive near its eastern terminus
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