Hidden Hills is a city and gated community in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles County, California. Take a look below for 10 interesting and amazing facts about Hidden Hills, California, United States.
1. It is located next to the city of Calabasas.
2. Hidden Hills is in the southern Simi Hills Transverse range near the Santa Monica Mountains in the western edge of San Fernando Valley, near the border with neighboring Ventura County.
3. The community was designed and developed in the 1950s by A.E. Hanson, a Southern California landscape architect and planned community developer.
4. His earlier projects included Rolling Hills and Palos Verdes Estates, and the 1920s Beverly Hills Harold Lloyd Estate “Greenacres”.
5. It is a gated residential community with a total area of 1.7 square miles (4.4 km2), all land. An elementary school is publicly accessible at one of the three gates to the community.
6. The city has a summer camp for children, community and children’s theatre programs, annual parades, carnivals, parties, welcome wagon, snow days, and weekly community-wide barbecues during the summer.
7. Hidden Hills is bordered on the north by the nature reserve and greenbelt of the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve, a park with miles of equestrian, hiking, and mountain biking trails.
8. Nearby to the south, is the pioneer Leonis Adobe National Historic Landmark, with gardens and a historical museum. It’s across El Camino Real of the Spanish Las Californias and Mexican Alta California eras, now U.S. Route 101, also called the Ventura Freeway in that area south of Hidden Hills.
9. In the California State Legislature, Hidden Hills is located within the 27th Senate District, represented by Democrat Henry Stern, and in the 45th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jesse Gabriel.
10. In the United States House of Representatives, Hidden Hills is located within California’s 30th congressional district, represented by Democrat Brad Sherman.
