Studio City Hills: Wrightwood Drive and the Trails Above Ventura

Updated November 9, 2026 | Sources checked November 9, 2026

South of Ventura Boulevard, Studio City changes grade. The commercial blocks flatten out along the boulevard. A few turns later the streets climb, bend around the contour of the hill and quiet down. Wrightwood Drive sits in that hillside pocket, still inside Studio City, not over the ridge into a different neighborhood.

Hillside trails labeled Studio City

Wilacre Park, listed by the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority at 3431 Fryman Road, Studio City (Map it), is a 128-acre hillside park off Laurel Canyon Boulevard. MRCA describes a large parking lot, restrooms, drinking fountains and a picnic area, and a wide trail that climbs through chaparral, walnut woodland and coastal sage scrub toward the Betty B. Dearing trail system.

See photos on Yelp.

That trail continues to Fryman Canyon Park, which MRCA lists at 8401 Mulholland Drive, Studio City (Map it). The agency describes a 122-acre park reached from the Nancy Hoover Pohl Overlook on the north side of Mulholland, with a fitness course, a paved parking lot and access to the same Dearing Cross Mountain Trail. The trail is open to hikers, equestrians and leashed dogs; mountain bikes are not allowed on the Dearing Trail.

See photos on Yelp.

Those two addresses matter because they are labeled Studio City by the agency that manages them, and they sit on the hillside south of Ventura and north of the ridgeline. They are not at the top of Wrightwood Drive itself; they are other Studio City hillside trailheads in the same south-of-Ventura band. If you want to understand how a Wrightwood-area house actually lives, leave the driveway at the hour you would actually go and notice the grade, the turns and the drive down to Ventura.

How we know this pocket is Studio City

The Studio City Neighborhood Council publishes its official boundaries clockwise from the Ventura Freeway. The south line follows the border between ZIP codes 91604 and 90068 to Mulholland Drive, just west of Torreyson Place at about 7700 Mulholland Drive, then continues along Mulholland Drive to Split Rock Road. Streets that climb south of Ventura and stop north of that Mulholland line remain inside Studio City.

Mapping L.A. describes Studio City as a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles County. Wrightwood Drive is one of the hillside streets inside that neighborhood. It is not Hollywood Hills south of Mulholland, and it is not a separate city.

Two Studio City dates already on the calendar

The hillside streets themselves are quiet. Neighborhood life still gathers a few minutes away, on the flatter Studio City blocks.

The Studio City Neighborhood Council lists a Community Cleanup on Sunday, November 15, 2026, beginning at 8:30 a.m. (the council’s calendar and news page list different end times, so confirm with the council before you go) The meetup is at Vitello’s Restaurant, 4349 Tujunga Avenue, Studio City (Map it), in Tujunga Village. The council says gloves, grabbers, safety vests and trash bags are provided. That gathering is a Studio City event, not a Wrightwood-street event. Tujunga Village is a commercial pocket on the flatter streets, not on Wrightwood Drive. It is still a useful way to see how the wider neighborhood shows up.

The council’s December calendar lists a Holiday Block Party on Saturday, December 5, 2026, from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m., identified with a 2026 Tujunga Village Block Party poster. Check the council if you are planning around a specific stage time or street closure.

What recent sales have looked like

Redfin’s Studio City neighborhood market page displays a median home sale price of $1.8 million over the last three months, up 13.2% from the comparable period a year earlier. The page is titled as of October 2026. Source: Redfin calculations of MLS and/or public-record data; checked November 9, 2026. This is Redfin’s Studio City neighborhood geography, not a price for Wrightwood Drive or for any particular house, and it is not a real-time reading.

Hillside streets can trade differently from the flats north of Ventura. A neighborhood median is the middle of recorded sales, not a price opinion on the house you are walking through. Let the grade, the light and the drive to Ventura tell you about the week. Let comparable sales do the pricing work.

School assignments in this part of Los Angeles are by address. Use the district’s own tools for the specific parcel rather than assuming a hillside street shares a campus with the rest of Studio City.

A good first hillside hour

Leave the street you are considering and drive to Wilacre Park, 3431 Fryman Road, Studio City (Map it). The same trail system continues to Fryman Canyon Park and the Nancy Hoover Pohl Overlook at 8401 Mulholland Drive, Studio City (Map it). Those addresses sit on the hillside south of Ventura and north of the ridgeline, and they are labeled Studio City by the agency that manages them.

If you are comparing a house on Wrightwood Drive with one closer to Ventura, or trying to decide whether the hill fits the way you actually live, reach out to Anthony. Bring the streets that felt right and the ones that felt like more driveway than you wanted. That conversation is more useful than a stack of adjectives.

Would you rather live a few minutes below the trailhead, or closer to the boulevard and visit the hill when you want it?

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