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Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area

Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area, or Kenneth Hahn Park, is a state park unit of California in the Baldwin Hills Mountains of Los Angeles. The park is managed by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation. As one of the largest urban parks and regional open spaces in the Greater Los Angeles Area, many have called it "L.A.'s Central Park". The 401-acre (1.62 km2) park was established in 1984. The land was previously the Baldwin Hills Reservoir, which failed catastrophically in the 1963 Baldwin Hills Dam disaster.

In 1988, four years after it opened, the Los Angeles Times noted that:

Few Southern Californians seem to know about a park in Baldwin Hills, but the clean, well-developed park is no secret to nearby residents, who enjoy weekend picnics and barbecues on the expansive lawns.

Hahn Park offers walking and hiking trails with some of the area's best scenic vistas.

The park is a destination for picnics and family gatherings, having 100 picnic tables in various picnic grounds around the park. The park also has four playgrounds, a half basketball court, a multi-purpose field, and a sand volleyball court. Garden areas include a Japanese garden with a lotus pond and waterfall. In 2017, a 9-hole disc golf course was added along the north bowl.

There are six sets of bathrooms for visitors. Restrooms are locked at 5:30 p.m. daily.

There is a lake for fishing, stocked monthly with trout or catfish, depending on the weather season.

Since 2004, the park, primarily the bowl, has been the site of the Southern California USATF Cross Country Championships.[failed verification]

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state recreation area in Los Angeles County, California, United States
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