Amazing Stunt Rd Views. Also Creepy Saddle Peak Bunker.

Some pics from a recent trip to the top of Stunt Rd., where it intersects Schueren Rd. and Saddle Peak Rd near Saddle Peak. Google Map. The site has parking for for a few cars, and offers views of West San Fernando Valley, Malibu, and Los Angeles. I’ve never been alone with the people I went there with for very long. It’s a more well known view, so there are often people already there.

There is a gated fire road here as well, which is normally locked, but not always. You probably don’t want to drive on it, because like many roads higher in the Santa Monica Mountains, its kinda falling off the mountain. If you took Sheuren Rd. up recently, you already know this. In the city’s defence, they do fix the disintegrating roads pretty regularly. A short hike down the fire road it splits. The high road leads to a Cold War era looking reinforced bunker on top of the peak. Much graffiti to appreciate, although I don’t know if this is still a government building, so possibly the graffiti doesnt belong there. Next to it is a transmitter tower of some sort. Maybe radar or microwave. I saw a clean, functional one recently in Northern California. When we were there, the bunker was buzzing loudly, so something in there is switched on. Directly adjacent to this is a smaller, more modern building, a water tower, and several smaller antennas. The lower path leads to the Northern hump of Saddle Peak. Good hiking and more views of the San Fernando Valley are here.

This is by far one of my favorite secluded places in the city. Anyone visiting Los Angeles looking for sites should go.

Posted by rmrubin September 2007

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