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| name               = Pacific Palisades
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| nicknames           = The Palisades, Pali, Palisades
| motto              = ''"Where the mountains meet the sea."''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kamin |first1=Debra |title=Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles: Where Mountains Meet the Sea |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/realestate/pacific-palisades-los-angeles-where-mountains-meet-the-sea.html |access-date=February 8, 2021 |agency=The New York Times |date=February 11, 2020 |archive-date=February 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208122637/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/realestate/pacific-palisades-los-angeles-where-mountains-meet-the-sea.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Pacific Palisades |url=http://morningsideplumbers.com/pacific-palisades/ |website=Morningside Plumbers |access-date=February 8, 2021 |archive-date=August 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823200923/http://morningsideplumbers.com/pacific-palisades/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| leader_title       = [[Honorary Mayor of Pacific Palisades|Honorary mayor]]
| leader_name        = [[Eugene Levy]]<ref name="Pali News Levy">{{cite news |last1=Creei |first1=Toi |title=Eugene Levy Named as Honorary Mayor of Pacific Palisades |url=https://palisadesnews.com/eugene-levy-named-as-honorary-mayor-of-pacific-palisades/ |access-date=February 8, 2021 |agency=Palisades News |publisher=Palisades News |archive-date=February 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208130749/https://palisadesnews.com/eugene-levy-named-as-honorary-mayor-of-pacific-palisades/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
| established_title  = First settlement by [[Chumash people]]
| established_date   = 8,000 BC
| established_title2 = [[Alta California|Mexican]] settlement
| established_date2  = 1838
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| established_date3  = 1921
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| area_total_sq_mi   = 24.31<ref name="Ref 2">{{cite news |title=Pacific Palisades |url=http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/pacific-palisades/ |access-date=February 8, 2021|work=Los Angeles Times |archive-date=January 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119122905/http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/pacific-palisades/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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| population_total   = 23,648<ref name="LA Almanac">{{cite web |title=LA Almanac |url=https://www.laalmanac.com/population/po24la.php |website=laalmanac |access-date=July 10, 2025}}</ref>
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| elevation_max_footnotes = <ref name="Chamber">{{cite web |title=About |url=https://www.palisadeschamber.com/about-pacific-palisades/ |website=Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce |access-date=February 12, 2021 }}</ref>
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| population_demonym = Palisadian, Palisadians
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| postal_code        = 90272
| area_codes          = [[Area codes 310 and 424|310 and 424]]
| website            = [http://pacpalicc.org Community Council]<br >[https://www.palisadeschamber.com Chamber of Commerce]
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'''Pacific Palisades''' is a neighborhood in the [[Westside, Los Angeles|Westside]] region of the city of [[Los Angeles]], California, situated about {{convert|20|mi|km}} west of [[Downtown Los Angeles|downtown]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Hotels and Motels near Riviera Country Club Los Angeles Pacific Palisades, CA |url=https://hotelguides.com/golf/riviera-country-club-los-angeles-ca-hotels.html |website=Hotelguides |access-date=February 11, 2021 |archive-date=April 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415210233/https://hotelguides.com/golf/riviera-country-club-los-angeles-ca-hotels.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It was founded in 1921 by a [[Chautauqua|Methodist organization]], and is known for its seclusion, [[Mediterranean climate]], hilly [[topography]], abundance of parkland and hiking trails, a {{convert|3|miles|km|adj=on}} strip of coastline, and for being home to several architecturally significant homes.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Small Town Adventures: Pacific Palisades |url=https://www.lamag.com/longform/small-town-adventures-pacific-palisades/ |access-date=February 14, 2021 |magazine=Los Angeles Magazine |archive-date=June 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620050707/https://www.lamag.com/longform/small-town-adventures-pacific-palisades/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Haskell |first1=Josh |title=Pacific Palisades: Scenic and vibrant with a small town feel |url=https://abc7.com/pacific-palisades-josh-haskell-abc7-purple-bricks/4166184/ |access-date=February 14, 2021 |agency=ABC7 |publisher=ABC Los Angeles }}</ref>

Nicknamed '''the Palisades''' and '''Pali''' by locals, the neighborhood is bounded by [[Brentwood, Los Angeles|Brentwood]] to the east, the unincorporated community of [[Topanga, California|Topanga]] to the west, [[Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica]] to the southeast, the [[Santa Monica Bay]] to the southwest, and the [[Santa Monica Mountains]] to the north. Parks and beaches in the Palisades include the [[Santa Monica State Beach]], [[Will Rogers State Beach]], [[Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area]], and [[Will Rogers State Historic Park]].

In January 2025, thousands of structures were destroyed by the [[Palisades Fire]], amounting to several billion dollars in damages, as part of the wider outbreak of [[January 2025 Southern California wildfires|Southern California wildfires]].

==History==
===Native American period===
Archeological evidence shows [[Native American Indians]] living in the Santa Monica Mountains and the surrounding area including Pacific Palisades for over 10,000 years.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=NativeLand.ca – Chumash |url=https://native-land.ca/maps/territories/chumash/ |access-date=November 30, 2020 |website=Native-land.ca – Our home on native land |language=en }}</ref> Prior to European contact, the western sections of the Santa Monica mountains were inhabited by the [[Tongva]] people.<ref name=":1" /> The closest [[Tongva]] settlement to Pacific Palisades with a written record is the village of '''[[village of Topa'nga|Topa'nga]]'''.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |title=TRIBAL CULTURAL RESOURCES ASSESSMENT FOR THE 17346 SUNSET BOULEVARD PROJECT, CITY OF LOS ANGELES, California |url=https://planning.lacity.org/odocument/bf613b49-3682-4712-bb3b-0a8109edae7e/ENV-2018-505-J.pdf |journal=LA City }}</ref> The village of Topa'nga sits on the westernmost edge of Tongva territory, neighboring the territory of the [[Chumash people]] to the north.<ref name=":2" /> Due to this close proximity to the Chumash, the culture in western Tongva territory contained elements of Chumash influence.<ref name=":2" />

===Mexican period===

During the period of Mexican rule of California, the land that became Pacific Palisades belonged to '''[[Rancho Boca de Santa Monica]]''', granted by the governor of California to Francisco Marquez and [[Ysidro Reyes]] in 1839.<ref name=":2" /> The Ysidro Reyes Adobe was the first adobe home ever built in Santa Monica Canyon, erected in the year 1838 on land now known as Pampas Ricas Blvd in Pacific Palisades.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Plaque Commemorating the Ysidro Reyes Adobe |url=https://santamonica.pastperfectonline.com/photo/D148DE0F-1EFC-4B6B-9705-513999641420 |website=Santa Monica History Museum }}</ref> Sketches of adobe dwelling exist in the collection of the [[UCLA Library]].<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |title=Ysidro Reyes, half-owner of Rancho Boca de Santa Monica and descendant of Juan Francisco Reyes, circa 1853–1861 |url=https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/p3266k1z-89112 |website=UCLA Library Digital Collections }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Photograph of 1890s drawing of Ysidro Reyes adobe, Santa Monica, 1939 |url=https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/f2ddb200zz-89112 |website=UCLA Library |access-date=November 30, 2020 |archive-date=December 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201184935/https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/f2ddb200zz-89112 |url-status=live }}</ref> A memorial plaque sits in a boulder on Pampas Ricas Blvd commemorating the adobe house, dedicated in the 1950s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dedication of the Ysidro Reyes Family plaque at Pampas Ricas and Sunset Blvd., September 14, 1952 |url=https://calisphere.org/item/87ced52308ab548512d5e0d109dbb0a1/ |access-date=November 30, 2020 |website=Calisphere |language=en }}</ref> Ysidro Reyes died in 1863. Reyes left his portion of Rancho Boca de Santa Monica to his widow, Maria Antonia Villa, who sold it to developer and railroad magnate [[Robert Symington Baker]] in 1875.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ingersoll, Luther A. |title=Ingersoll's century history, santa monica bay cities – prefaced with a brief. |date=2007 |publisher=Read Books |isbn=978-1-4086-2367-1 |location=[Place of publication not identified] |oclc=946583429 }}</ref>

===1911–1922: Inceville and Hartville===
In 1911, film director [[Thomas H. Ince|Thomas Ince]] constructed his historic film studio '''[[Thomas H. Ince#Inceville - The First Modern Studio|Inceville]]''' on a {{convert|460|acre|km2|adj=on}} tract of land he leased called ''Bison Ranch'' at [[Sunset Boulevard]] and [[California State Route 1|Pacific Coast Highway]] in the [[Santa Monica Mountains]]. Today this is where the [[Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine]] is located, a Pacific Palisades landmark. By the following year, Ince had earned enough money to purchase the ranch and was able to lease an additional {{convert|18000|acre|km2}} lot in what is now in the [[Palisades Highlands, Los Angeles, California|Palisades Highlands]] neighborhood, stretching {{convert|7.5|mi|km}} up Santa Ynez Canyon. This was the first major development built in the Palisades since the Mexican rancho era.<!-- Empty reference <ref name="Poverty" /--><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.movielocationsplus.com/INCE.HTM |title=Inceville |work=movielocationsplus.com |access-date=February 22, 2021 |archive-date=March 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303181703/http://www.movielocationsplus.com/INCE.HTM |url-status=dead }}</ref>
[[File:Inceville.jpg|thumb|right|"Inceville", Santa Ynez Canyon, California, c. 1919]]

This was the first studio in the area which featured silent stages, production offices, printing labs, a commissary large enough to serve lunch to hundreds of workers, dressing rooms, props houses, elaborate sets, all in one central location.

When Inceville was completed, the streets were lined with many types of structures, from humble cottages to mansions, mimicking the style and architecture of different countries.<ref>{{cite web |last=Soares |first=Andre |url=http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/thomas-ince-inceville/ |title=Inceville: Film Pioneer Thomas Ince's Studios |publisher=Altfg.com |date=January 24, 2014 |access-date=February 15, 2014 |archive-date=October 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195420/http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/thomas-ince-inceville/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Extensive outdoor western sets were built and used on the site for several years. According to Katherine La Hue in her book, ''Pacific Palisades: Where the Mountains Meet the Sea'':

<blockquote>Ince invested $35,000 in building, stages and sets&nbsp;... a bit of Switzerland, a [[Puritan]] settlement, a Japanese village&nbsp;... beyond the breakers, an ancient [[brigantine]] weighed anchor, cutlassed men swarming over the sides of the ship, while on the shore performing cowboys galloped about, twirling their lassos in pursuit of errant cattle&nbsp;... The main herds were kept in the hills, where Ince also raised feed and garden produce. Supplies of every sort were needed to house and feed a veritable army of actors, directors and subordinates.</blockquote>

While the cowboys, Native Americans and assorted workers lived at Inceville, the main actors came from Los Angeles and other communities as needed, often taking the [[Pacific Electric Railway|red trolley cars]] to the [[Long Wharf (Santa Monica)|Long Wharf]] in what is now the [[Temescal Canyon, Los Angeles County|Temescal Canyon]] neighborhood, where [[buckboard]]s conveyed them to the set.

Ince lived in a house overlooking the vast studio in what is now the Marquez Knolls neighborhood.<ref>Thomas H. Ince – Encyclopædia Britannica [www.britannica.com]</ref> Indeed, "Inceville" became a prototype for Hollywood film studios of the future, with a studio head (Ince), producers, directors, production managers, production staff, and writers all working together under one organization and under the supervision of a General Manager, [[Fred J. Balshofer]].<ref>[http://www.backlotfilmfestival.com/BioInce.htm The Backlot Film Festival – History – Thomas Ince Biography<!-- bot-generated title -->] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080210010243/http://www.backlotfilmfestival.com/BioInce.htm |date=February 10, 2008}} at www.backlotfilmfestival.com</ref>

On January 16, 1916, a fire broke out at Inceville, the first of many that eventually destroyed all of the buildings. Ince later gave up on the studio and sold it to [[William S. Hart]],<ref>{{Citation |year=2007 |title=Inceville: The Ephemeral City |url=https://www.palipost.com/inceville-the-ephemeral-city/ |access-date=October 31, 2023 |archive-date=October 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031134103/https://www.palipost.com/inceville-the-ephemeral-city/ |url-status=live }}</ref> who renamed it '''Hartville'''. Three years later, Hart sold the lot to [[Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation]], which continued filming there until 1922. La Hue writes that the place was virtually a ghost town when the last remnants of Inceville were burned on July 4, 1922, leaving only a "weatherworn old church, which stood sentinel over the charred ruins."

===1921–1931: Methodist Episcopal Church===
[[File:Santa Monica Canyon 1921.jpg|thumb|Santa Monica Canyon, 1921]]
A decade later, the Rev. Charles H. Scott and the Southern California [[Methodist Episcopal Church]] bought the land; in 1922, Scott founded '''Pacific Palisades''', envisioning an elaborate religious-intellectual commune.<ref>{{cite book |last=Loomis |first=Jan |title=Pacific Palisades |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L6VgfC530y0C |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=9780738569482 |year=2009 }}</ref> Believers snapped up choice lots and lived in tents during construction. By 1925, the Palisades had 100 homes. In one subdivision, streets were named in alphabetical order for [[Methodist]] missionaries (the "Alphabet Streets"). The tents eventually were replaced by cabins, then by bungalows, and ultimately by multimillion-dollar homes. The climate of the area was a big selling point. Temperatures are much cooler than inland Los Angeles during summer, but usually sunnier and less foggy than areas south along the coast (e.g. [[Santa Monica]]).

The name "Pacific Palisades" comes from the term for a [[Palisade|tall wooden fence or defensive wall]], by analogy with the cliff-like bluffs situated on the western side of the neighborhood bordered by the Pacific Ocean. These bluffs were said to resemble those in the [[The Palisades (Hudson River)|Palisades]] section of New Jersey, on the western side of the lower [[Hudson River]].<ref>{{cite web |title=How Los Angeles Neighborhoods Got Their Names |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/59984/how-los-angeles-neighborhoods-got-their-names |website=Mental Floss |date=November 18, 2014 |access-date=February 12, 2021 |archive-date=March 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303004145/https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/59984/how-los-angeles-neighborhoods-got-their-names |url-status=live }}</ref>

Pacific Palisades enjoyed steady growth throughout the [[Roaring 20s]]. The paving of [[Sunset Boulevard]] in 1925 brought an increased flow of traffic through the community and offered more convenient access to nearby [[Westwood, Los Angeles|Westwood]] and [[Beverly Hills]].<ref name="1929 Sue">{{cite news |last1=Perscoe & Bruns |first1=Sue & Bill |title=Pivotal Moments in Pacific Palisades History: The Year 1929 |url=https://www.circlingthenews.com/pivotal-moments-in-pacific-palisades-history-the-year-1929/ |access-date=February 20, 2021 |agency=Circling The News |archive-date=June 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210617022915/https://www.circlingthenews.com/pivotal-moments-in-pacific-palisades-history-the-year-1929/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1928, the [[Los Angeles Police Department]] began renting temporary office space in the now-historic Business Block building for the price of $10 a month. The following year, a motorcycle officer was assigned to make nightly patrols in the area. The Palisades finally acquired its own fire station in 1929, located on Sunset, adjacent to where the local [[Chase Bank]] branch now stands in the Village neighborhood.<ref name="1929 Sue" />

By 1929 the town consisted of about 365 homes with about 1,000 residents, who mostly resided in the "Alphabet Streets" neighborhood, although residential construction was now expanding into what would later become the Castellammare, Huntington and Paseo Miramar neighborhoods.<ref name="Village Green History">{{cite web |title=HISTORY OF PALISADES VILLAGE GREEN |url=http://www.palisadesvillagegreen.org/history.html |website=PALISADES VILLAGE GREEN |access-date=February 19, 2021 |archive-date=May 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507225055/http://palisadesvillagegreen.org/history.html |url-status=live }}</ref> On August 18 of that year, the cornerstone was laid for the foundation of the [[Community United Methodist Church of Pacific Palisades|Methodist Episcopal Church]] on Via de la Paz, which at that time was the community's only church. Directly across the street, planning was underway for the town's first permanent school building which would later become known as "[[Palisades Elementary]]", which was dedicated on June 12, 1931.<ref name="1929 Sue" />

By the end of the decade, nearly all remaining open areas of Pacific Palisades were being developed, reflecting the period's booming growth and the Palisades' coastal allure. Golfers were already enjoying the  [[Riviera Country Club]], opened in 1927, and the [[Bel-Air Bay Club]] opened in March 1930.<ref name="1929 Sue" />

===1930–present===
[[File:Pacific Palisades, CA, 1938 Flood - Emry Davis IV, Photographer, meta documentation - panoramio.jpg|thumb|right|Photo of the devastation from the 1938 flood in what is now The Village]]

During the 1930s and 40s, the Palisades attracted German, [[German-Jewish]] and [[Austrian-Jewish]] intellectuals and artists fleeing from [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]’s [[Holocaust]], including associated with the [[Exilliteratur]] literary movement, such as [[Thomas Mann]], [[Lion Feuchtwanger]], [[Theodor W. Adorno]], [[Vicki Baum]], [[Herbert Zipper]], and [[Emil Ludwig]]. Some of these  exiles had previously sought refuge in the south of France, but fled to the United States after the [[fall of France]]. They were surprised by the similarities with the Mediterranean climate and topography.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Garner |first1=Scott |title=Neighborhood Spotlight: Pacific Palisades |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hp-0416-neighborhood-pacific-palisades-20160416-story.html |access-date=February 9, 2021 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |archive-date=February 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208232052/https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hp-0416-neighborhood-pacific-palisades-20160416-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/libraries/feuchtwanger/exiles/tmann.html |title=Feuchtwanger Memorial Library – Researching German Exiles |website=usc.edu |access-date=October 7, 2010 |archive-date=May 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527142539/http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/libraries/feuchtwanger/exiles/tmann.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Villa Aurora]] on Paseo Miramar, the Spanish colonial home of Feuchtwanger and his wife, Marta, became the focal point of the expatriate community, which was nicknamed "[[Weimar culture|Weimar]] by the Sea".<ref name="travel.nytimes.com">Finn-Olaf Jonas (November 25, 2007), [http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/travel/25next.html A Scenic Los Angeles Enclave, Without Glitter] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120624231301/http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/travel/25next.html |date=June 24, 2012 }} ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref> Some non-Jewish exiles who were married to people with Jewish ancestry chose to settle in the Palisades as well, such as [[Thomas Mann]] and his wife [[Katia Mann]] who resided at [[Thomas Mann House|1550 San Remo Drive]] in the Riviera neighborhood.<ref>David Laskin (October 3, 2008), [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/travel/05culture.html When Weimar Luminaries Went West Coast] ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref>

For many decades there was a virtual ban on the sale of [[Alcoholic drink|alcoholic beverages]] in the district, and a [[American Chinese cuisine|Chinese restaurant]], House of Lee, held the only [[liquor]] license. The Methodist Church created a [[Chautauqua]] Conference Grounds in Temescal Canyon.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/the-problem-of-profitable-leisure-bringing-chautauqua-to-los-angeles |title=TED Talks of the Late 1800s: When the Chautauqua Movement Came to California |first=D. J. |last=Waldie |date=April 5, 2017 |website=[[KCET]] |access-date=January 29, 2019 |archive-date=January 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129064236/https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/the-problem-of-profitable-leisure-bringing-chautauqua-to-los-angeles |url-status=live }}</ref> The Presbyterian Synod purchased the property in 1943 and used it as a private retreat center until the [[Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy]] purchased the property in 1994 to become Temescal Gateway Park.

Though the Palisades had a notable Jewish population since at least the 1930s, it was still largely Methodist until the 1970s. This is when the Palisades began to see an increase in affluent Jewish migration.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}} [[Mort's Deli]], {{citation needed|reason=regarded as a local landmark|date=January 2025}}, opened in 1972; it closed in 2007.<ref name="Deli">{{cite news |author1=Jewish Journal Staff |title=Deli Stories, No Schmaltz |url=https://jewishjournal.com/culture/food/3996/ |access-date=February 20, 2021 |agency=The Jewish Journal |publisher=JJ |archive-date=October 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231019232446/https://jewishjournal.com/culture/food/3996/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2021, a [[Palisades Fire (2021)|wildfire]] destroyed about {{convert|1200| acres}} in Pacific Palisades and an arson suspect was detained.<ref name=Ortiz>{{Cite news |last=Ortiz |first=Jorge L. |title=Wildfire near Los Angeles grows to 1,325 acres; arson suspect detained, authorities say |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/05/16/palisades-fire-arson-suspect-sought-evacuations-la-county/5119799001/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |work=[[USA TODAY]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

[[File:Los Angeles ablaze.jpg|thumb|200px|Satellite image of the 2025 [[Palisades Fire]] minutes after ignition]]

On January 7, 2025, the [[Palisades Fire]] began north of Bienveneda Ave. The fire was propelled at a rapid rate of spread due to extremely high Santa Ana Winds and critically dry brush. The fire quickly spread through the Palisades and neighboring communities before being fully contained on January 31. The fire destroyed 6,831 structures, damaged 973 structures, injured 3 civilians, 1 firefighter, and killed 12 civilians.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Palisades Fire Status Update Reports {{!}} CAL FIRE |url=https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/palisades-fire/updates |access-date=2025-02-04 |website=www.fire.ca.gov}}</ref> It is the [[List of California wildfires#Deadliest wildfires|tenth-deadliest]] and [[List of California wildfires#Most destructive wildfires|third-most destructive]] California wildfire on record and the most destructive to occur in the history of the city of Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Top 20 Deadliest California Wildfires|url=https://34c031f8-c9fd-4018-8c5a-4159cdff6b0d-cdn-endpoint.azureedge.net/-/media/calfire-website/our-impact/fire-statistics/top-20-deadliest-ca-wildfires.pdf?rev=6758f8a5ca3d4d30bcd1f2ebaeeaed87&hash=D5D11592B2B3231AE40E1D60D331796C|date=January 23, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Top 20 Most Destructive California Wildfires|url=https://34c031f8-c9fd-4018-8c5a-4159cdff6b0d-cdn-endpoint.azureedge.net/-/media/calfire-website/our-impact/fire-statistics/top-20-destructive-ca-wildfires.pdf?rev=582019785a994dccb61e8f554f4d3c2b&hash=97ECEED23181B02019118DB38B63ABBC|date=January 23, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Caramela |first=Sammi |date=2025-01-08 |title=Pacific Palisades Wildfire Officially Most Destructive in Los Angeles History |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/pacific-palisades-wildfire-officially-most-destructive-in-los-angeles-history/ |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=VICE |language=en-US}}</ref>{{maplink|frame=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=300|frame-height=400|from=January 2025 United States wildfires.map|frame-latitude=34.056|frame-longitude=-118.545|zoom=13|text=Affected area of Pacific Palisades by Palisades Fire ([[c:Data:January 2025 United States wildfires.map|map data]])}}

==Geography==
Pacific Palisades is located about {{convert|7|mi|km|0|abbr=off|sp=us}} west of the [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]] campus.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Temescal Gateway Park |url=https://mrca.ca.gov/parks/park-listing/temescal-gateway-park/ |access-date=November 30, 2020 |website=MRCA |language=en |archive-date=November 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125231824/https://mrca.ca.gov/parks/park-listing/temescal-gateway-park/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Santa Monica Mountain range runs through the northern and eastern sections of Pacific Palisades, accessible through a series of [[trailhead]]s.<ref name=":0" />

Pacific Palisades covers a total area of {{convert|24.31|sqmi|km2|0|sp=us}}, comprising {{convert|22.84|sqmi|km2}} of land and {{convert|1.47|sqmi|km2}} of water.<ref name="Ref 2" /> The Palisades coast is about {{convert|3|miles|km|spell=in}} in length.

===Climate===

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Pacific Palisades has a [[Mediterranean climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification|Köppen]] ''Csb''), and receives just enough annual precipitation to avoid [[semi-arid climate]] (''BSh)'',.<ref name="Peel">{{cite journal |author1=Peel, M. C. |author2=Finlayson B. L. |author3=McMahon, T. A. |name-list-style=amp |year=2007 |title=Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification |journal=Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. |volume=11 |issue=5 |pages=1633–1644 |doi=10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 |issn=1027-5606 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2007HESS...11.1633P |url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00298818/file/hessd-4-439-2007.pdf }}</ref> Daytime temperatures are generally temperate all year round. In winter, they average around {{convert|68|F}} giving it a tropical feel although it is a few degrees too cool to be a true tropical climate on average due to cool night temperatures.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://boomcalifornia.com/2017/05/22/the-myth-of-a-desert-metropolis-los-angeles-was-not-built-in-a-desert-but-are-we-making-it-one/ |title=The Myth of a Desert Metropolis: Los Angeles was not built in a desert, but are we making it one? |author-first1=Glen M. |author-last1=MacDonald|date=May 22, 2017 |website=Boom California |language=en |access-date=March 8, 2019 |archive-date=March 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308110817/https://boomcalifornia.com/2017/05/22/the-myth-of-a-desert-metropolis-los-angeles-was-not-built-in-a-desert-but-are-we-making-it-one/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.plantmaps.com/koppen-climate-classification-map-north-america.php |title=Interactive North America Koppen-Geiger Climate Classification Map |website=www.plantmaps.com |access-date=March 8, 2019 |archive-date=March 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308081529/https://www.plantmaps.com/koppen-climate-classification-map-north-america.php |url-status=live }}</ref> Pacific Palisades has plenty of sunshine throughout the year, with an average of only 35 days with measurable precipitation annually.<ref name="weatherbase">{{cite web |url=http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=159227&refer= |title=Historical Weather for Los Angeles, California, United States of America |publisher=Weatherbase.com |access-date=December 15, 2011 |archive-date=January 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111084326/http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=159227&refer= |url-status=live }}</ref>

Temperatures in the Palisades exceed {{convert|90|F}} on a dozen or so days in the year, from one day a month in April, May, June and November to three days a month in July, August, October and to five days in September.<ref name="weatherbase" /><ref name="NCDC-CANOGA">{{cite web |url=http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/climatenormals/clim20/ca/041484.pdf |title=Climatography of the United States No. 20 (1971–2000) |year=2004 |publisher=[[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902181245/http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/climatenormals/clim20/ca/041484.pdf |archive-date=September 2, 2013 |url-status=dead |access-date=October 5, 2011 }}</ref> The average annual temperature of the sea is {{convert|63|F}}, from {{convert|58|F}} in January to {{convert|68|F}} in August.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beachcalifornia.com/beach/california-ocean-temperature.html |title=Pacific Ocean Temperatures on California Coast |publisher=beachcalifornia.com |access-date=October 5, 2011 |archive-date=October 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012162654/http://www.beachcalifornia.com/beach/california-ocean-temperature.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Hours of sunshine total more than 3,000 per year, from an average of 7 hours of sunshine per day in December to an average of 12 in July.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.weather2travel.com/climate-guides/united-states/california/los-angeles-ca.php |title=Los Angeles Climate Guide |publisher=weather2travel.com |access-date=October 5, 2011 |archive-date=October 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005120119/http://www.weather2travel.com/climate-guides/united-states/california/los-angeles-ca.php |url-status=live }}</ref> Pacific Palisades, like much of the rest of the southern California coast, is subject to a late spring/early summer weather phenomenon called "[[June Gloom]]". This involves overcast or foggy skies in the morning that yield to sun by early afternoon.<ref name="Poole2010">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HAPWv2OkeXUC&pg=PA22 |title=Frommer's Los Angeles 2011 |last=Poole |first=Matthew R. |date=September 22, 2010 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-470-62619-1 |page=22 |access-date=October 5, 2011 |archive-date=November 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106164902/https://books.google.com/books?id=HAPWv2OkeXUC&pg=PA22 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Pacific Palisades averages {{cvt|14.93|in|mm|}} of precipitation annually, mainly occurring between November and March,<ref name="NCDC-CANOGA" /> generally in the form of moderate rain showers, but sometimes as heavy rainfall during winter storms. Rainfall is usually higher in the neighborhoods located in the hills and coastal slopes of the [[Santa Monica Mountains]], such as the Highlands and Castellammare; due to [[orographic]] uplift. Summer days are typically rainless. Rarely, an incursion of moist air from the south or east can bring brief thunderstorms in late summer, especially to the mountains. The coast gets slightly less rainfall, while the inland and mountain areas get considerably more. Years of average rainfall are rare. The usual pattern is year to year variability, with a short string of dry years of {{cvt|5|-|10|in|mm}} rainfall, followed by one or two wet years with more than {{cvt|20|in|mm|}}.<ref name="NCDC-CANOGA" /> Wet years are usually associated with warm water [[El Niño]] conditions in the Pacific, dry years with cooler water [[La Niña]] episodes. A series of rainy days can bring floods to the lowlands and mudslides to the hills, especially after [[wildfire]]s have denuded the slopes.

Both freezing temperatures and snowfall are extremely rare in the hills and canyon ridges and along the coast, with the last occurrence of a {{convert|32|F}} reading being on. While the most recent snowfall occurred in January 2021, it has also occurred several other times in recorded history, the second-most recent being in February 2019,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/e2-wire/431056-city-of-los-angeles-sees-first-snow-since-1962 |title=Los Angeles sees first snow in years |website=The Hill |last=Frazin |first=Rachel |date=February 21, 2019  |access-date=April 6, 2019 |archive-date=February 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223020408/https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/e2-wire/431056-city-of-los-angeles-sees-first-snow-since-1962 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/video/snow-falling-in-los-angeles-pasadena-and-california-s-coastal-cities-1446644291928 |title=Snow falling in Los Angeles, Pasadena and California's coastal cities |website=NBC News |date=February 22, 2019 |publisher=NBC Universal |access-date=April 6, 2019 |archive-date=April 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402012137/https://www.nbcnews.com/video/snow-falling-in-los-angeles-pasadena-and-california-s-coastal-cities-1446644291928 |url-status=live }}</ref> with snow falling in some areas of the Palisades as recently as January 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.9news.com/article/weather/accuweather/malibu-snow-snowfall-photos-weather-forecast/507-c4f6e6a1-ce70-4153-859c-273beb266ad7 |title=Snow in Malibu? Weather provides surprise in Southern California |website=KUSA |first1=Chaffin |last1=Mitchell |publisher=Tegna Inc. |date=January 25, 2021 |access-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-date=May 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509050503/https://www.9news.com/article/weather/accuweather/malibu-snow-snowfall-photos-weather-forecast/507-c4f6e6a1-ce70-4153-859c-273beb266ad7 |url-status=live }}</ref> At the official downtown station, the highest recorded temperature is {{convert|113|F}} on September 27, 2010,<ref name="NCDC-CANOGA" /><ref name="RecordHighTemp113">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-sep-27-la-me-hottest-ever-20100928-story.html |title=L.A.'s hottest day ever |last1=Pool |first1=Bob |date=September 27, 2010 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=October 5, 2011 |last2=Lin II |first2=Rong-Gong |archive-date=December 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111213215200/http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/27/local/la-me-hottest-ever-20100928 |url-status=live }}</ref> while the lowest is {{convert|28|F}},<ref name="NCDC-CANOGA" /> on January 4, 1949.<ref name="NCDC-CANOGA" /> During autumn and winter, [[Santa Ana winds]] sometimes bring much warmer and drier conditions to Pacific Palisades, and raise wildfire risk.

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==Neighborhoods==
{{tone|section|date=March 2021}}

===The Village===

The Village is Pacific Palisades' small central business district with its center at [[Sunset Boulevard]] and Via de la Paz, known for an abundance of Italian restaurants. The Village's anchor is the [[Palisades Village]], a shopping center which was opened in 2018 and replaced a number of buildings in the downtown area. This business district is centered around the historic [[Business Block]] building located between Antioch and Sunset. The Village consists of a weekly farmers' market, restaurants, and a coffee shop in addition to shops, and offices.{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}

===The Alphabet Streets===
The Alphabet Streets, also known as "The North Village", is the neighborhood that borders the 'village' proper to the north of [[Sunset Boulevard]]. This was the first neighborhood to be built in Pacific Palisades, beginning in 1921 by members of the [[Methodist]] movement. This neighborhood has the smallest lot sizes of all the neighborhoods in the Palisades, with lots ranging from 5,200 to 7,500 sq ft in size. The Alphabet Streets are within walking distance to The Village, and this area is characterized by its high density of smaller single family homes on lively narrow streets. The streets, named after Methodist bishops of the late 19th and early 20th century, are consecutively named beginning with A, B, C, D, etc. – hence the name Alphabet Streets. This neighborhood is a destination for trick-or-treaters on Halloween.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Brief History of the Pacific Palisades Alphabet Streets |url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=982kIUxw2j0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/982kIUxw2j0 |archive-date=November 17, 2021 |url-status=live |website=Youtube |date=September 11, 2020 |access-date=February 9, 2021}}{{cbignore }}</ref>

===The El Medio Mesa===
The El Medio Mesa is located south of [[Sunset Boulevard]] beginning about a quarter mile west of The Village, across Temescal Canyon – just past [[Palisades Charter High School]]. The El Medio Mesa extends for a long distance from Temescal Canyon all the way to where Sunset Boulevard meets the [[California State Route 1|Pacific Coast Highway]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}

===Marquez Knolls===
Marquez Knolls is a large area of homes located north of [[Sunset Boulevard]] beginning about a quarter mile west of The Village across Temescal Canyon on the mountain upslope, known for spectacular ocean views. There is a small shopping center on Marquez Avenue and Sunset Boulevard.{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}

===The Via Bluffs and the Huntington===
The Via Bluffs and The Huntington are the neighborhoods that border the "village" proper to the south of [[Sunset Boulevard]], overlooking the ocean. The Via Mesa is located between Temescal Canyon on the west and Potrero Canyon on the east; the Huntington Palisades is located between Potrero Canyon on the west and Chautauqua Boulevard on the east. Both of these neighborhoods are within walking distance to The Village and sit upon high bluffs that look out over the Pacific Ocean.{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}

===The El Medio Bluffs===
The El Medio Bluffs, as with The Via Bluffs and The Huntington Palisades, are located on a high ridge overlooking the Pacific Ocean and much of the neighborhood is afforded ocean views and ocean air.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

===Castellammare===
Castellammare is located along [[California State Route 1|Pacific Coast Highway]] on small bluffs much closer to sea-level, north of where [[Sunset Boulevard]] meets PCH. This is the home of the [[Getty Villa]] and the narrow, winding streets in this neighborhood have Italian names and ocean breezes.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}

===Rustic Canyon===
{{main|Rustic Canyon}}
[[Rustic Canyon]] is the neighborhood east of Chautauqua Boulevard that dips into Santa Monica Canyon and includes the [[Will Rogers State Historic Park]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=626 |title=Will Rogers State Park |access-date=May 16, 2009 |archive-date=September 30, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930112211/http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=626 |url-status=live }}</ref> The neighborhood features post-war homes located on the former polo field of The Uplifters, the original site of The Uplifters clubhouse (now a city park), and "cabins" developed as second homes and weekend retreats. This area is also known as Uplifter's Ranch.

===The Riviera===
[[File:Pacific-Palisades-golf-course-Aerial-from-west-August-2014.jpg|thumb|right|Aerial view of Pacific Palisades, the Riviera neighborhood can be seen to the right]]
[[File:RivieraCountryClub18th.jpg|thumb|240px|Finishing hole at [[Riviera Country Club]]]]
The Riviera is a Palisades neighborhood located approximately {{convert|2| miles||spell=in}} east of The Palisades Village and features streets named after various locations in the French and Italian Riviera. The neighborhood is divided into north and south sections by [[Sunset Boulevard]]. It borders Santa Monica and Brentwood. The [[Riviera Country Club]] hosts the [[Genesis Open]] on the [[PGA Tour]] in February. Riviera has hosted three [[Men's major golf championships|major championships]]: the [[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]] in [[1948 U.S. Open (golf)|1948]] and the [[PGA Championship]] in [[1983 PGA Championship|1983]] and [[1995 PGA Championship|1995]]. [[Ben Hogan]] won three times in less than 18 months at the course (1947 and 1948 L.A. Open, 1948 U.S. Open), and it became known as ''"Hogan's Alley".'' The country club will also host golf during the [[2028 Summer Olympics]].<ref name="la24-prod.s3.amazonaws.com">{{cite web |url=http://la24-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/pdf/LA2024-canditature-part2_english.pdf |title=Stage 2 Governance, Venue, and Legal Funding |publisher=Los Angeles Candidate City Olympic Games 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230724181535/http://la24-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/pdf/LA2024-canditature-part2_english.pdf |archive-date=July 24, 2023 }}</ref>

===Palisades Highlands===
The Palisades Highlands is a neighborhood in the northern region, located in the upper Santa Ynez Canyon. The Highlands has access to several [[Topanga State Park]] trailheads. The Highlands themself have a number of gated communities, housing developments and distinct neighborhoods including the following:<ref name="Vincent">{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-caruso-palisades-20180313-story.html |title=Amazon Books heading to Pacific Palisades as new village center takes shape |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |first=Roger |last=Vincent |date=March 13, 2018 |access-date=March 30, 2018 |archive-date=March 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328140031/http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-caruso-palisades-20180313-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

* Country Estatesa: [[gated community]] of 80 homes on the farthest west part of the Highlands.
* Palisades Hills: this is the oldest area and the highest part at around {{convert|1,600|feet}} above sea level.
* The Summit: the newest neighborhood in the Highlands that was completed in the early 2000s. This area includes The Summit Club which is a recreation center.
* Lower Highlands: includes homes and condominiums as well as a shopping center and various commercial properties, development of which began in the early 1970s.<ref name="Vincent"/>

=== Santa Monica Canyon ===
[[File:Balloon Route 1903.jpg|thumb|Santa Monica Cañon visible on a LAPRR Balloon Route map circa 1903]]
Santa Monica Canyon, named for the historic [[Rancho Boca de Santa Monica]], is within the city of Los Angeles and is considered part of the Los Angeles community of Pacific Palisades. Canyon Charter School serves the local area. The neighborhood is bordered by Chautauqua Boulevard to the north and Adelaide Drive to the south.

==Demographics==
In 2009 the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''{{'s}} "Mapping L.A." project supplied these Pacific Palisades statistics: a population of 25,507 residents in the {{cvt|22.84|sqmi|km2|}} neighborhood, giving a population density of {{cvt|1,048|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|}}, among the lowest for the city and the county.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/neighborhood/pacific-palisades |title="Pacific Palisades" entry on the ''Los Angeles Times'' "Mapping L.A." website |access-date=June 9, 2009 |archive-date=February 27, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227074252/http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/neighborhood/pacific-palisades/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Demographic data from the 2023 US Census American Community Survey indicated a population that was 81% [[Non-Hispanic White]], 6% [[Asian American|Asian]], 1% [[Black American|Black]], 8% multiracial; 4% of residents were [[Hispanic American|Hispanic or Latino]], of any race.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDP5Y2023.DP05?q=demographics&g=860XX00US90272| title=ACS Demographics and Housing Estimates (ZCTA5 90272)| access-date=January 9, 2024}}</ref> Pacific Palisades is notable for a large Jewish population, with an estimated 5,000-10,000 Jewish residents.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Keene |first1=Louis |title=Their Pacific Palisades synagogue is standing, but all three rabbis lost their homes |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/687478/la-palisades-fire-rabbis-homes-lost/ |website=forward.com |date=January 9, 2025 |publisher=The Forward |access-date=11 January 2025}}</ref>

== Parks and recreation ==
===City parks===
The Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks operates several recreational facilities in Pacific Palisades.

* '''Palisades Park''', at 851 Alma Real Drive, has {{convert|117|acre|ha|abbr=off|0}} of land and is the Palisades' largest park.<ref>"[http://www.laparks.org/dos/parks/facility/palisadesPk.htm Palisades Park] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160207072304/http://www.laparks.org/DOS/parks/facility/palisadesPk.htm |date=2016-02-07}}." ''Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks''. Retrieved November 29, 2008.</ref> The Palisades Recreation Center, also at that address, has barbecue pits, four baseball diamonds (two lighted, two unlighted), lighted basketball courts (indoor and outdoor), a children's play area, a football field, an indoor gymnasium (no weights are offered), picnic tables, lighted tennis courts, and lighted volleyball courts. The facility also has a kitchen, a stage, a television area, and various scheduled athletic and non-athletic activities.<ref>"[http://www.laparks.org/dos/reccenter/facility/palisadesRC.htm Palisades Recreation Center]." ''Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks''. Retrieved November 29, 2008.</ref> The Pacific Palisades Tennis Court, also at that address, has eight courts.<ref>"[http://www.laparks.org/dos/sports/tennis/facility/pacificpalisadesTC.htm Pacific Palisades Tennis Court] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081228023212/http://www.laparks.org/dos/sports/tennis/facility/pacificpalisadesTC.htm |date=December 28, 2008 }}." ''Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks''. Retrieved November 29, 2008.</ref>
* '''Rustic Canyon Park''' is located along Rustic Canyon Road.<ref>"[http://www.laparks.org/dos/parks/facility/rusticCynPk.htm Rustic Canyon Park] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120224441/http://www.laparks.org/dos/parks/facility/rusticCynPk.htm |date=November 20, 2008 }}." ''Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks''. Retrieved November 29, 2008.</ref> The Rustic Canyon Pool is located at 601 Latimer Road.<ref>"[http://www.laparks.org/dos/aquatic/facility/rusticCanyonPool.htm Rustic Canyon Pool] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114021418/http://www.laparks.org/dos/aquatic/facility/rusticCanyonPool.htm |date=January 14, 2009 }}." ''Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks''. Retrieved November 29, 2008.</ref> The Rustic Canyon Recreation Center, located at the same address, has a multipurpose with a capacity of 150 people that can be used as an auditorium, a gymnasium, or a volleyball court. The center also has barbecue pits, an unlighted baseball diamond, basketball courts (lighted indoor and unlighted outdoor), a children's play area, an indoor gymnasium (no weights are offered), picnic tables, and volleyball courts (lighted and unlighted).<ref>"[http://www.laparks.org/dos/reccenter/facility/rusticCanyonRC.htm Rustic Canyon Recreation Center] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114020742/http://www.laparks.org/dos/reccenter/facility/rusticCanyonRC.htm |date=January 14, 2009 }}." ''Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks''. Retrieved November 29, 2008.</ref>
* '''Temescal Canyon Park''' is a non-staffed "pocket park" located along Temescal Canyon Drive from Pacific Coast Highway to [[Sunset Boulevard]]. The park has barbecue pits, a children's play area, picnic tables, hiking trails, a native garden, and toilets.<ref>"[http://www.laparks.org/dos/parks/facility/temescalCynPk.htm Temescal Canyon Park] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203180052/http://www.laparks.org/dos/parks/facility/temescalCynPk.htm |date=December 3, 2008 }}." ''Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks''. Retrieved November 29, 2008.</ref>
* '''Santa Ynez Canyon Park''' is located on Palisades Drive and Avenida de Santa Ynez.<ref>"[http://www.laparks.org/dos/parks/facility/santaYnezCynPk.htm Santa Ynez Canyon Park] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113234948/http://www.laparks.org/dos/parks/facility/santaYnezCynPk.htm |date=January 13, 2009 }}." ''Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks''. Retrieved November 29, 2008.</ref>
* '''Rivas Canyon Park''' is located at the eastern terminus of Oracle Place.<ref>"[http://www.laparks.org/dos/parks/facility/rivasCynPk.htm Rivas Canyon Park] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114021429/http://www.laparks.org/dos/parks/facility/rivasCynPk.htm |date=January 14, 2009 }}." ''Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks''. Retrieved November 29, 2008.</ref>

===Hiking trails===
Hiking is common in the Palisades, and the community is home to [[hiking]] trails including the following:

====Backbone Trail====
{{main|Backbone Trail}}

The Backbone Trail is a [[long distance trail]] extending 68 miles<ref>[http://www.nps.gov/samo/planyourvisit/upload/BBT_West2East_GPSCords.pdf Backbone Trail System Mileage/GPS Chart, National Park Service] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100216013949/http://www.nps.gov/samo/planyourvisit/upload/BBT_West2East_GPSCords.pdf |date=February 16, 2010 }}</ref> (109&nbsp;km) across the length of the [[Santa Monica Mountains]]. The trail runs through both [[Malibu, CA|Malibu]] and Pacific Palisades, with its western terminus in [[Point Mugu State Park]] in Malibu and its eastern terminus in [[Will Rogers State Historic Park]] in Pacific Palisades. The trail is open to hikers throughout its length; dogs, [[mountain biking|mountain bicyclists]] and [[Equestrianism|horseback riders]] are allowed on portions of the trail as posted. The trail follows a well-maintained, single-track path with some dirt roads. There is no permit required for hiking it.<ref>[https://www.nps.gov/samo/planyourvisit/backbonetrail.htm Santa Monica Mountains NRA – Backbone Trail (U.S. National Park Service)] . Accessed June 9, 2010.</ref>

====Bushwacker's Delight====
Bushwacker's Delight is a 0.8 mile lightly trafficked point-to-point trail with 528&nbsp;ft in elevation gain, located within Will Rogers State Historic Park. This trail is frequented by more-experienced hikers as it is an uncleared trail with overgrown vegetation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bushwacker's Delight |url=https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/bushwackers-delight |website=AllTrails |access-date=February 13, 2021 }}</ref>

====Eagle Springs Fire Road Loop Trail====

Eagle Springs Fire Road Loop Trail is a 5.5 mile-long loopwith 1,095&nbsp;ft in elevation gain, located near the Palisades Highlands neighborhood. The trail is paved and well-maintained as it doubles as a fire road, and offers activity options. It is most popular from September to May. This is one of the few trails in Los Angeles County open to those on [[horseback]]. This trail offers parking in the nearby lot for $10 a day, and is easily accessible from the Palisades and neighboring Topanga. The Eagle Springs Fire Road Loop Trail leads to Eagle Rock, a rock formation which is a common spot for photography as its peak offers sweeping views and is home to a variety of native lizards.<ref>{{cite web |title=Eagle Springs Fire Road Loop Trail |url=https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/eagle-springs-fire-road-loop-trail |website=AllTrails |access-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-date=October 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231019230946/https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/eagle-springs-fire-road-loop-trail |url-status=live }}</ref>

====High Point Trail====
High Point Trail is 2.8 mile-long trail with 1,007&nbsp;ft of elevation gain located in the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the Palisades. It is a paved trail that begins on private property, and hikers frequently trespass knowingly or unknowingly to complete the hike. This trail is noted for its wildlife, and though the trail is paved, parts are overgrown with bushes and other vegetation. The trail leads to ''"Goat Peak"'', one of the highest points in the Palisades with views of the area.<ref>{{cite web |title=Goat Peak via High Point Trail [PRIVATE PROPERTY] moderate |url=https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/goat-peak |website=AllTrails |access-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-date=April 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410222940/https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/goat-peak |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Inspiration Point Trail====
Inspiration Point Trail is a 2.1 mile-long hiking trail with 324&nbsp;ft in elevation gain located within Will Rogers State Historic Park near the Riviera neighborhood. This is one of the oldest hiking trails in Los Angeles and was created by [[Will Rogers]] in the early 20th century. It is one of the few trails in the Palisades open to dogs. The trail is one of the main attractions of Will Rogers State Park, as it is an easy hike with unique vistas of the Los Angeles Basin and Santa Monica Bay. On a clear day one can see views of areas such as [[Santa Catalina Island (California)|Catalina Island]], [[Chino Hills]], and [[Saddleback Peak]] at the summit of the trail. Inspiration Point Trail connects to Backbone Trail.<ref>{{cite web |title=Inspiration Point Trail |url=https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/will-rogers-state-park-inspiration-point-trail?ref=result-card |website=AllTrails |access-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-date=September 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924130259/https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/will-rogers-state-park-inspiration-point-trail?ref=result-card |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Los Leones Trail====
Los Leones Trail, also known as Los Liones, is a moderately-challenging trail located in the Castellammare neighborhood. It is 7.3 miles long, with over 1,300&nbsp;ft in elevation gain. Often spelled "Los Liones", the area is named after the mountain lions common in the area.<ref>{{cite web |title=Topanga State Park- Los Leones Trail to Parker Mesa – Hiking |url=https://rootsrated.com/los-angeles-ca/hiking/topanga-state-park-los-liones-trail-to-parker-mesa-hiking2 |website=RootsRated |date=March 17, 2016 |access-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126113313/https://rootsrated.com/los-angeles-ca/hiking/topanga-state-park-los-liones-trail-to-parker-mesa-hiking2 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Los Leones is one of the most-popular trails in the [[Westside Los Angeles|Westside]], and weaves through a lush canyon with abundant green vegetation located in the southern end of [[Topanga State Park]], just a 1/3 mile away from the Pacific. The ivy and chaparral-lined trail offers some of the best of Santa Monica Bay. After 1.3 miles and 550 feet of elevation gain, the trail arrives at a clearing on a ridge with a bench that looks down on the Palisades, Santa Monica city and bay, and the surrounding area. The top of the trail joins East Topanga Fire Road, which leads to the Paseo Miramar Trail which leads deeper into the [[Santa Monica Mountains]]. Further on the trail is ''"Parker Mesa Overlook"'', known for some of the best views of the coast of any trail in Los Angeles. The area consists of a flat plateau area with sweeping views of the coast.<ref>{{cite web |title=Los Liones Trail |url=https://www.hikespeak.com/trails/los-liones-trail-in-the-santa-monica-mountains/ |website=HikeSpeak |access-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-date=January 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119142317/https://www.hikespeak.com/trails/los-liones-trail-in-the-santa-monica-mountains/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Singer |first1=Susan |title=Los Liones Trail |url=https://www.afar.com/places/los-liones-trailhead-los-angeles |website=AFAR |access-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-date=May 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518142424/https://www.afar.com/places/los-liones-trailhead-los-angeles |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Murphy Ranch Trail====
''[[Murphy Ranch]] Trail''

====Skull Rock Loop====
[[File:Temescal Canyon Ridge Trail.jpg|thumb|upright=.8|Temescal Canyon Ridge Trail]]
Skull Rock Loop is a 4-mile-long loop trail with 1,141&nbsp;ft of elevation gain located near the Temescal Canyon neighborhood. This trail is frequented by both [[rock climbers]] and [[birders]], as it is home to rocky terrain and an abundance of bird species. Skull Rock Loop branches off from the nearby Temescal Canyon Trail, and features a waterfall as well as its namesake ''"Skull Rock"'', a rock formation named for its resemblance to a skull. The entrance to the trail offers free street parking or a daily rate in the nearby parking lot for $12.<ref>{{cite web |title=Skull Rock Loop |url=https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/skull-rock-loop |website=AllTrails |access-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-date=April 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420193738/https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/skull-rock-loop |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Trailer Canyon Fire Road====
Trailer Canyon Fire Road is a 4.3 mile-long trail with 925&nbsp;ft in elevation gain located near the Summit development in the Palisades Highlands neighborhood. This trail is wide and paved as it doubles as a fire road, it is also used by mountain bikers and birdwatchers. After 1.5 miles this trail connects with the nearby Temescal Ridge Trail, which takes hikers to the Temescal Gateway Park. Trailer Canyon Fire Road has views of the ocean and Temescal Canyon.<ref>{{cite web |title=Trailer Canyon Fire Road |url=https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/trailer-canyon-fire-road |website=AllTrails |access-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413081024/https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/trailer-canyon-fire-road |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Will Rogers Trail====
Will Rogers Trail is a 4.1 mile trail with 449&nbsp;ft in elevation gain located within [[Will Rogers State Historic Park]]. This trail is one of many trails located within the Will Rogers State Park, near the Riviera neighborhood. Will Rogers Trail is known for being very challenging even for experienced hikers, as it is not very well-maintained, and there are signs on portions of the trail which point this out. Those hiking may have to scramble on stones through the underbrush to avoid falling into the nearby creek. During winter the creek often overflows its banks, obscuring the trail and making it even more treacherous.<ref>{{cite web |title=Will Rogers Trail |url=https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/will-rogers-trail |website=AllTrails |access-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-date=August 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804172958/https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/will-rogers-trail |url-status=live }}</ref>

===State parks and beaches===
The California Department of Parks and Recreation also has locations in Pacific Palisades.

====Will Rogers State Beach====
[[Will Rogers State Beach]] extends {{cvt|1+3/4|mi|km|round=0.5|}} along the shore. The beach features swimming and skin diving. Facilities include volleyball courts, playground and gymnastic equipment, as well as a bike path and walkway. A number of movies and TV shows have been filmed at this beach. The beach is located off the Pacific Coast Highway, near the intersection with Temescal Canyon Road. The beach is operated by the County of Los Angeles Department of Beaches & Harbors.<ref>"[http://beaches.lacounty.gov/wps/portal/dbh/home/detail/?current=true&urile=wcm:path:/dbh+content/dbh+site/home/home+detail/will+rogers+1." ''County of Los Angeles Department of Beaches & Harbors''. Retrieved August 13, 2015.]</ref>

====Will Rogers State Historic Park====
[[File:Will Rogers House, Pacific Palisades.JPG|thumb|right|Will Rogers House, one of the park's main attractions]]
While [[Will Rogers]] made Beverly Hills his home in the late 1920s, in 1922 he bought a large plot of almost {{convert|200|acre|ha|-1|abbr=off}} of land above Sunset Blvd. to build a weekend cottage. He built a polo field on the property in 1926, and in 1928 he and his family made it their home. In 1944, nine years after Rogers died, the ranch became a state park. In the interest of historical preservation, the home is maintained as it was including the furniture and fixtures. It is open to the public most days with the exception of major holidays, although admission is required. The top of the property's trail includes vistas of the ocean and city.<ref>"[http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=626] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907233412/http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=626|date=September 7, 2015}}." ''California Department of Parks and Recreation''. Retrieved August 13, 2015.</ref>

====Temescal Gateway Park====
[[File:Panorama from Temescal Peak.jpg|thumb|right|600px|Panoramic view from Temescal Peak]]
Temescal Gateway Park, located at 15601 Sunset Blvd., has {{convert|141|acre|ha|abbr=off}} of oak and sycamore canyons, ridgetop views, and access to miles of trails in Topanga State Park, Will Rogers State Historic Park, and the {{convert|20000|acre|ha|-3|adj=on|abbr=off}} "Big Wild".<ref>"[http://www.lamountains.com/parks.asp?parkid=58] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150814113118/http://lamountains.com/parks.asp?parkid=58|date=August 14, 2015}}." ''Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy''. Retrieved August 13, 2015.</ref>

====Topanga State Park====
{{main|Topanga State Park}}
Located in the cliffs and canyons of the Santa Monica Mountains and headquartered in nearby Topanga Canyon, Topanga State Park features {{cvt|36|mi|km|}} of trails through open grassland, live oaks and views of the Pacific Ocean. The park is bound on the south by Pacific Palisades and Brentwood, on the west by Topanga Canyon, and on the east by Rustic Canyon. Numerous geologic formations can be found in the park, including earthquake faults, marine fossils, volcanic intrusions, and a wide variety of sedimentary formations. Trail heads into the park are located throughout Pacific Palisades, including Las Lions Drive, Palisades Highlands, Temescal Gateway Park and Will Rogers State Historic Park.<ref>"[http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=629] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309163803/https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=629|date=March 9, 2018}}." ''California Department of Parks and Recreation.'' Retrieved August 13, 2015.</ref>

==Government and infrastructure==
The most important civic group within the Palisades is the [[Pacific Palisades Community Council]]. The Pacific Palisades Community Council usually meets twice each month to discuss a wide range of issues that affect its residents. The council has rejected city offers to become an official part of the city, preferring its independent, non-aligned status. Among the main reasons that Council members cite is that the council would not have the power to appeal decisions of City officials, commissions, and boards and the council could not appear before Federal, State, and County authorities regarding local issues.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}}

===Local government===
The community is within [[Los Angeles City Council District 11|District 11]] of the Los Angeles City Council, represented by [[Traci Park]].<ref>"[https://councildistrict11.lacity.gov/ Council District 11]." ''City of Los Angeles''. Retrieved November 9, 2023.</ref>

The [[Los Angeles Fire Department]] operates two fire stations serving Pacific Palisades. Station 69 at 15045 West Sunset Boulevard serves Pacific Palisades and the Pacific Coast.<ref>"[http://www.lafd.org/fs69.htm Fire Station 69] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070415093852/http://www.lafd.org/fs69.htm |date=April 15, 2007 }}." ''[[Los Angeles Fire Department]]''. Retrieved November 26, 2008.</ref> Station 23 at 17281 West Sunset Boulevard serves the Palisades Highlands, Castellammare, and the Pacific Coast.<ref>"[http://www.lafd.org/fs23.htm Fire Station 23] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828211252/http://lafd.org/fs23.htm |date=August 28, 2008 }}." ''[[Los Angeles Fire Department]]''. Retrieved November 26, 2008.</ref>

The [[Los Angeles Police Department]] operates the West Los Angeles Community Police Station at 1663 Butler Avenue, serving the neighborhood.<ref name="lapd">{{cite web|url=http://www.lapdonline.org/west_la_community_police_station |title=West LA Community Police Station| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112011624/http://www.lapdonline.org/west_la_community_police_station |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |website=Los Angeles Police Department|access-date=November 26, 2008}}</ref>

===County, state, and federal representation===
Pacific Palisades is within Los Angeles County's 3rd Supervisorial District. As of 2014, [[Sheila Kuehl]] represents the district.<ref>"[http://zev.lacounty.gov/scripts/map.htm Map of 3rd Supervisorial District] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120032652/http://zev.lacounty.gov/scripts/map.htm |date=November 20, 2008 }}." ''[[Los Angeles County, California]]''. Retrieved November 28, 2008.</ref>

The [[Los Angeles County Department of Health Services]] SPA 5 West Area Health Office serves Pacific Palisades.<ref>"[http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/phcommon/public/aboutus/aboutdisplay.cfm?ou=ph&prog=chs&unit=spa5 About Us] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527140307/http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/phcommon/public/aboutus/aboutdisplay.cfm?ou=ph&prog=chs&unit=spa5 |date=May 27, 2010 }}." [[Los Angeles County Department of Health Services]]. Retrieved March 18, 2010.</ref> The department operates the Simms/Mann Health and Wellness Center in [[Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica]], serving Pacific Palisades.<ref>"[http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/phn/docs/HealthCenter/santamonica.pdf Simms/Mann Health and Wellness Center] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214084354/http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/phn/docs/HealthCenter/santamonica.pdf |date=December 14, 2010 }}." [[Los Angeles County Department of Health Services]]. Retrieved March 27, 2010.</ref>

Pacific Palisades is a part of [[California's 50th State Assembly district]]. As of 2019, [[Richard Bloom]] represents the district.<ref>District Map. (January 4, 2017). Retrieved March 25, 2019, from https://a50.asmdc.org/district-map {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323050735/https://a50.asmdc.org/district-map |date=March 23, 2019 }}</ref> Pacific Palisades is also a part of [[California's 23rd State Senate district]]; as of 2019, [[Ben Allen (California politician)|Ben Allen]] represents the district.<ref>Senate District 26. (October 2, 2017). Retrieved March 25, 2019, from https://sd26.senate.ca.gov/district {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325215846/https://sd26.senate.ca.gov/district |date=March 25, 2019 }}</ref> The community is a part of the [[California State Board of Equalization|State Board of Equalization]] District 4,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://boe.ca.gov/lawguides/intro/boe-districts.html |title=Business Taxes Law Guide - Board of Equalization Districts |access-date=March 26, 2019 |archive-date=March 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326150919/https://boe.ca.gov/lawguides/intro/boe-districts.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> represented by Mike Schaefer, as of 2019.<ref>Mike Schaefer (California). (n.d.). Retrieved March 26, 2019, from https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Schaefer_(California) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107203034/https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_Schaefer_(California) |date=November 7, 2018 }}</ref>

In the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]], Pacific Palisades is within [[California's 32nd congressional district]], and is currently represented by [[Brad Sherman]]. The [[United States Postal Service]] operates the Pacific Palisades Post Office, at 15243 La Cruz Drive.<ref>"[http://usps.whitepages.com/service/post_office/70423?p=1&s=CA&service_name=post_office&z=Pacific+Palisades Post Office Location – PACIFIC PALISADES]{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}." ''[[United States Postal Service]]''. Retrieved November 26, 2008.</ref><ref>"[http://usps.whitepages.com/service/post_office/70425?p=1&s=CA&service_name=post_office&z=Pacific+Palisades Post Office Location – PACIFIC PALISADES]." ''[[United States Postal Service]]''. Retrieved November 26, 2008.</ref>

===Fire service===
[[Los Angeles Fire Department]] Stations 23 and 69 serve the area. Station 23 is located on Sunset Boulevard at the bottom of Los Liones Drive and Station 69 is located on Sunset Boulevard and Carey Street.

===Law enforcement and security===
Pacific Palisades is served by the West Los Angeles Division of the [[Los Angeles Police Department]]. One police car is generally assigned to the neighborhood.<ref name="lapd"/> {{Citation needed|date=March 2025}} Many residents also rely on private security companies such as ADT, or ACS security.

==Politics==

Pacific Palisades is a heavily [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] area, and Democrats tend to win the majority of the vote in each election.

In the [[2024 United States presidential election|2024 presidential election]], of the 11,151 votes cast from the five voting precincts that largely constitute the Palisades (9005918A, 9005919A, 9005929A, 9001382A, 9007693D), 71.17% went for [[Kamala Harris]], while [[Donald Trump]] and [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]] received just 27.75% and 1.08% of the Palisadian vote, respectively.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-11-11 |title=Here's How Pacific Palisades Voted in The 2024 General Election |url=https://palisadesnews.com/heres-how-pacific-palisades-voted-in-the-2024-general-election/ |access-date=2025-01-09 |website=Palisades News |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Education==
===Public schools===
[[File:Frontviewpalihi.jpg|thumb|[[Palisades Charter High School]]]]
Residents are zoned to [[Los Angeles Unified School District]] schools. The area is within Board District 4.<ref>[http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/board/secretary/BoardDistrictMaps/2007-08%20Board%20District%204.pdf Board District 4 Map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218021005/http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/board/secretary/BoardDistrictMaps/2007-08%20Board%20District%204.pdf |date=December 18, 2008 }}. ''[[Los Angeles Unified School District]]''. Retrieved November 24, 2008.</ref> As of 2017, [[Nick Melvoin]] represents the district.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://boyleheightsbeat.com/what-is-the-lausd-school-board-and-how-do-i-put-them-to-work-for-me/|website=Boyle Heights Beat|author-first1=Mariana|author-last1=Dale|date=16 December 2024|quote=District 4 Board Member Nick Melvoin|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250311090302/https://boyleheightsbeat.com/what-is-the-lausd-school-board-and-how-do-i-put-them-to-work-for-me/|archive-date=11 March 2025|url-status=live|title=What is the LAUSD school board and how do I put them to work for me?}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/community_briefs/article/two_lausd_board_members_retire_friedlander_wins_shoah_scholarship_prize_200/|title=Two LAUSD board members retire, Friedlander wins Shoah scholarship prize|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205181817/http://www.jewishjournal.com/community_briefs/article/two_lausd_board_members_retire_friedlander_wins_shoah_scholarship_prize_200/|archive-date=December 5, 2008|website=[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles|The Jewish Journal]]|date=November 12, 2008}}</ref>

Some residents are assigned to [[Pacific Palisades Elementary School]], some residents are assigned to Canyon Elementary School, and some are assigned to Marquez Elementary School. All residents are zoned to Paul Revere Charter Middle School and [[Palisades Charter High School]].<ref>Gillespie, Danielle. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20110716135131/http://www.palisadespost.com/content/index.cfm?Story_ID=4263 Revere, PaliHi Show Best API Gains]." ''Palisadian Post''. September 11, 2008.</ref><ref>"[http://www.palihigh.org/ourpages/auto/2008/1/31/1201801274118/Palisades%20Chtr%20HS%20Attendance%20Area.pdf Palisades Charter High School Attendance Zone] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716094559/http://www.palihigh.org/ourpages/auto/2008/1/31/1201801274118/Palisades%20Chtr%20HS%20Attendance%20Area.pdf |date=2011-07-16}}." ''[[Los Angeles Unified School District]]''. Retrieved November 27, 2008.</ref>

* Canyon Elementary School opened in 1910.<ref>"[http://search.lausd.k12.ca.us/cgi-bin/fccgi.exe?w3exec=school.profile.content&which=2795 Canyon EL] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527171616/http://search.lausd.k12.ca.us/cgi-bin/fccgi.exe?w3exec=school.profile.content&which=2795 |date=May 27, 2011 }}." ''[[Los Angeles Unified School District]]''. Retrieved November 27, 2008.</ref>
* Pacific Palisades Elementary opened in 1922.<ref>"[http://search.lausd.k12.ca.us/cgi-bin/fccgi.exe?w3exec=school.profile.content&which=5959 Pacific Palisades EL] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527171651/http://search.lausd.k12.ca.us/cgi-bin/fccgi.exe?w3exec=school.profile.content&which=5959 |date=May 27, 2011 }}." ''[[Los Angeles Unified School District]]''. Retrieved November 27, 2008.</ref>
[[File:Pacpalelementarytower.jpg|thumb|Pacific Palisades Charter Elementary School front tower]]
* Marquez Elementary School opened in 1955.<ref>"[http://search.lausd.k12.ca.us/cgi-bin/fccgi.exe?w3exec=school.profile.content&which=5164 Marquez EL] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527171832/http://search.lausd.k12.ca.us/cgi-bin/fccgi.exe?w3exec=school.profile.content&which=5164 |date=May 27, 2011 }}." ''[[Los Angeles Unified School District]]''. Retrieved November 27, 2008.</ref>
[[File:Marquezelementarypacpal.jpg|thumb|Marquez Elementary School]]
* Paul Revere Middle School first opened as Palisades-Brentwood Junior High School on September 12, 1955; it chose its current name during its first year of operation. It became an internal charter in 1994.<ref name="RevereHistory">Paul Revere History. (n.d.). Retrieved June 30, 2017, from https://web.archive.org/web/20170630144853/https://www.paulreverems.com/domain/6
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* Palisades Charter High School, commonly known as ''"Pali High"'', opened in 1961.<ref>"[http://search.lausd.k12.ca.us/cgi-bin/fccgi.exe?w3exec=school.profile.content&which=8798 Palisades CHTR HS] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527171124/http://search.lausd.k12.ca.us/cgi-bin/fccgi.exe?w3exec=school.profile.content&which=8798 |date=May 27, 2011 }}." ''[[Los Angeles Unified School District]]''. Retrieved November 27, 2008.</ref> It later became a charter school in 1994.<ref>"[http://www.palihigh.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=51512&type=d&termREC_ID=&id=0&leftNav=1&rn=5674318 School Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716094639/http://www.palihigh.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=51512&type=d&termREC_ID=&id=0&leftNav=1&rn=5674318 |date=July 16, 2011 }}." ''[[Palisades Charter High School]]''. Retrieved November 27, 2008.</ref>

===Private schools===
Private schools in the area include:
* Palisades Jewish Early Childhood Center (preschool-kindergarten) – is a Jewish private school associated with the [[Chabad]] movement offering private preschool, kindergarten, daycare and Hebrew school education.<ref>{{cite web |title=About |url=https://www.pjecc.org/about/welcome/ |website=Palisades Jewish Early Childhood Center |access-date=February 12, 2021 |archive-date=August 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813022804/https://www.pjecc.org/about/welcome/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Calvary Christian (K–8)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.calvarychristian.org/ |title=Calvary Christian School – Independent, Private Christian School &#124; West Los Angeles, CA |publisher=Calvarychristian.org |access-date=July 31, 2015 |archive-date=May 31, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531155748/http://calvarychristian.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Village School<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.village-school.org/ |title=Home |publisher=Village School |access-date=July 31, 2015 |archive-date=August 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150827012408/http://www.village-school.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> (pre-K–6)
* [[Corpus Christi Catholic Church, Pacific Palisades|Corpus Christi]] (K–8)
* [[St. Matthew's Episcopal Church and School (Pacific Palisades, California)|St. Matthew's Parish School]] (PS–8)
* Seven Arrows (K–6)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sevenarrows.org/ |title=Seven Arrows |publisher=Seven Arrows |access-date=July 31, 2015 |archive-date=August 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150818032510/http://www.sevenarrows.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Westside Waldorf (K–8)
* [[Lycée Français de Los Angeles]] Pacific Palisades Campus<ref>"[http://www.lyceela.org/campus_life/pacific_palisades_campus/index.aspx Pacific Palisades Campus] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701054820/http://www.lyceela.org/campus_life/pacific_palisades_campus/index.aspx |date=2015-07-01}}." [[Lycée Français de Los Angeles]]. Retrieved June 28, 2015.</ref>

===Public libraries===
[[Image:Pacific Palisades Branch, Los Angeles Public Library.jpg|thumb|Los Angeles Public Library Palisades Branch]]
[[Los Angeles Public Library]] operates the Palisades Branch at 861 Alma Real Drive.<ref>"[http://www.lapl.org/branches/Branch.php?bID=15 Palisades Branch Library] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410065604/http://www.lapl.org/branches/Branch.php?bID=15 |date=April 10, 2008 }}." ''[[Los Angeles Public Library]]''. Retrieved November 26, 2008.</ref>

==Culture==
===Menorah lighting===

Beginning in 1988, each year on the first night of [[Hanukkah]] a public menorah lighting ceremony is held at the [[Palisades Village]], the downtown area of the Palisades. The menorah lighting is organized by Chabad of Pacific Palisades as well as other leaders in the local Jewish community, and the Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce. It is hosted by Palisades Chabad Rabbi Zushe Cunin, as well as the [[Honorary Mayor of Pacific Palisades|honorary mayor]], the city councilman representing the area, and local developer [[Rick Caruso]]. It is accompanied by a community event featuring live [[Hanukkah music]], complimentary Hanukkah foods such as [[latkes]], [[chocolate gelt]] and [[sufganiyot]], Hanukkah-themed arts and crafts, face painting and balloon twisting.

On December 2, 2018, the 30th Annual Pacific Palisades Menorah Lighting was held at its new location, the Palisades Village shopping center. This was the highest-attended menorah lighting in Palisades history and was attended by over 1,000 people, including actors and Co-honorary Mayors Janice and [[Billy Crystal]], Rabbi Zushe Cunin, Palisades Village developer Rick Caruso, and councilman [[Mike Bonin]]. The Crystals also helped in the planning of the event. The event performances of Hanukkah and other traditional [[Jewish music]] by the Marquez Elementary Choir, Paul Revere Music Club and the Westside Waldorf School.<ref>{{cite news |title=Menorah Lighting in the Palisades |url=https://palisadesnews.com/menorah-lighting-in-the-palisades/ |agency=Palisades News |access-date=February 22, 2021 |archive-date=October 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001025107/https://palisadesnews.com/menorah-lighting-in-the-palisades/ |url-status=live |first1=Keldine|last1=Hull|date=9 December 2018}}</ref>

Pacific Palisades is also home to one of the few [[vegan]] Hanukkah celebrations in Los Angeles, ''"Lights and Latkes"'', hosted by vegan Rabbi Jonathan Klein and JewishVeg Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lights and Latkes |url=https://www.jewishveg.org/lights-and-latkes |website=JewishVeg |access-date=February 17, 2021 |archive-date=August 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240814013604/https://jewishveg.org/events-1/lights-and-latkes-a-jewish-veg-hanukkah-party-2/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Palisades Rocks The Fourth!===
[[File:4th July 2006 Pacific Palisades HS Fireworks.jpg|thumb|right|Fireworks during the 2006 Palisades Rocks The Fourth! event]]
'''Palisades Rocks The Fourth''' is a Palisadian tradition that first began in 1967. Every [[Fourth of July]], the community's [[Chamber of Commerce]] sponsors day-long events which include [[5000 metres|5K]] and [[10,000 metres|10K runs]], a home decorating contest, a parade down [[Sunset Boulevard]], and a concert accompanied by a fireworks display at [[Palisades Charter High School|Palisades High School]] football field.

Due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Palisades Rocks The Fourth! was held mostly virtually beginning in 2020. A virtual concert accompanied by fireworks and a flyover by [[World War II]] fighter pilots flying [[T-6 Texan|AT-6]] trainers over the Palisades.<ref>{{cite web |title=Home |url=https://palisades4th.com/ |website=Palisades Rocks The Fourth! |access-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-date=February 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225070848/http://palisades4th.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Synagogues===
Pacific Palisades is home to a large Jewish population and has a number of synagogues including the following:

* [[Chabad]] of Pacific Palisades- local Chabad center located at 17315 Sunset Blvd in the Castlellammare neighborhood, offering religious services, Hebrew school and early Jewish education. Chabad of the Palisades hosts a number of Jewish events, and is also responsible for the annual [[Menorah lighting]] and Hanukkah celebration at the [[Palisades Village]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Menorah Lighting 2019: Palisades Village, Pacific Palisades |url=https://patch.com/california/pacificpalisades/calendar/event/20191222/716821/menorah-lighting-2019-palisades-village-pacific-palisades |website=Patch |access-date=February 9, 2021 |archive-date=February 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209150703/https://patch.com/california/pacificpalisades/calendar/event/20191222/716821/menorah-lighting-2019-palisades-village-pacific-palisades |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=About |url=https://www.chabadpalisades.com/ |website=Chabad of Pacific Palisades |access-date=February 9, 2021 |archive-date=February 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209151628/https://www.chabadpalisades.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Kehillat Israel]]- [[Reconstructionist Judaism|Reconstructionist]] synagogue, this is the oldest synagogue in the Palisades.

==Sports and recreation==

===Bel Air Bay Club===
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The Bel-Air Bay Club is both an event venue (Upper Club) and a private beach club (Lower Club) located in the area.

===Riviera Country Club===
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[[File:Riviera Country Club, Golf Course in Pacific Palisades, California (168829105).jpg|thumb|Par 3 on the course]]
The Riviera Country Club is a [[private club]] with a championship [[golf course]] and tennis courts in the Riviera neighborhood of Pacific Palisades. It is just a block south of [[Sunset Boulevard]].

The Riviera was designed by [[golf course architect]]s [[George C. Thomas, Jr.]] and [[William P. Bell]],{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}<!-- Empty reference <ref name=afteratyr/--> it has been the primary host for the [[Los Angeles Open|Genesis Invitational]] (originally the Los Angeles Open), an annual event on the [[PGA Tour]] in February. The [[2020–21 PGA Tour|2021]] edition was the 58th<!-- 58th in 2021 --> held at&nbsp;Riviera.

The Riviera has hosted three [[Men's major golf championships|major championships]]: the [[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]] in [[1948 U.S. Open (golf)|1948]], and the [[PGA Championship]] in [[1983 PGA Championship|1983]] and [[1995 PGA Championship|1995]]. In&nbsp;addition, it was site of the [[U.S. Senior Open]], a [[Senior major golf championships|senior major]], in [[1998 Senior PGA Tour|1998]] and the [[United States Amateur Championship (golf)|U.S. Amateur]] in August&nbsp;[[2017 in golf|2017]].<ref name=usam17>{{cite web |url=http://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/championships/2017/u-s--amateur.html |publisher=U.S. Golf Association |title=U.S. Amateur |date=August 2017 |access-date=February 14, 2017 |archive-date=February 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215123900/http://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/championships/2017/u-s--amateur.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The club is scheduled to host the [[Golf at the Summer Olympics|Olympics]] in&nbsp;[[2028 Summer Olympics#Southern California venues|2028]].<ref name="la24-prod.s3.amazonaws.com"/>

===Will Rogers Polo Club===
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[[File:Match at the Will Rogers Polo Club.JPG|thumb|Match at the Will Rogers Polo Club in 2013]]
The Will Rogers Polo Club is a [[polo]] club located at 1501 [[Will Rogers State Historic Park|Will Rogers State Park]] Road, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California.,<ref name="poole2010">Matthew Poole, ''Frommer's California 2010'', Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2010, p. 570 [https://books.google.com/books?id=NUhydJ-VY84C&dq=%22will+rogers+polo+club%22&pg=PA570] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231019230944/https://books.google.com/books?id=NUhydJ-VY84C&dq=%22will%20rogers%20polo%20club%22&pg=PA570|date=October 19, 2023}}</ref><ref>Mary Moore, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-22-we-41426-story.html The Long and Short of the Game], ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'', September 22, 1994.</ref><ref name="latimesmichael">Michael P. Lucas, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-03-va-38153-story.html His Home on the Range : At Will Rogers State Historical Park, the cowboy philosopher's charm and way of life are preserved], ''The Los Angeles Times'', March 3, 1995.</ref><ref name="latimesmarymoore">Mary Moore, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-22-we-41425-story.html WESTSIDE COVER STORY : Hard Times ON THE Polo Circuit], ''The Los Angeles Times'', September 22, 1994</ref> which is within [[Will Rogers State Historic Park]], and is Southern California's only remaining [[polo club]].

==Media==
* The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' is the citywide newspaper.
* The ''[[Palisadian-Post]]'', founded in 1928, is the oldest newspaper to serve the Pacific Palisades community.
* ''The Palisades News'', first published in 2014, is a Palisades-based newspaper published twice monthly for the residents of Pacific Palisades.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.palisadesnews.com/index.php/about-us/ |title=About us |access-date=March 25, 2019 |archive-date=March 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325171751/http://www.palisadesnews.com/index.php/about-us/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''Circling The News'' is a local news site established in 2017 by Sue Perscoe, a former writer for The Palisades News, and featuring a number of guest writers and columnists.<ref>{{cite news |title=About |url=https://www.circlingthenews.com/about/ |access-date=February 19, 2021 |agency=Circling The News |archive-date=January 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125171542/https://www.circlingthenews.com/about/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''Perspective Palisades'' is a local magazine founded by local historian and realtor Michael Edlen in 2020, the magazine is published each quarter and features real estate-related news as well as historical information, news in the community, and interviews with notable Palisadians.<ref>{{cite web |title=Perspective Palisades |url=https://edlenteam.com/palisades-perspective-winter-2020/ |website=Michael Edlen |access-date=February 21, 2021 |archive-date=August 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240814013711/https://edlenteam.com/perspective-palisades-winter-2020/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Landmarks==

===Burns House===
Architect [[Charles Moore (architect)|Charles W. Moore]] designed his first house in Los Angeles for the UCLA economist and urban planning professor, Leland Burns. The house was completed in 1974. It occupies a narrow ledge on a steep slope of the Santa Monica canyon. The house is composed of an interlocking set of shed roofs and tower, its forms reminiscent of The Sea Ranch Condominium, but adapted for a sense of the Mediterranean climate and Hollywood allusions. An interior staircase climbs up through a vertical cleft in the narrow house, and then at the very top of the third story, the stair descends outside, back down into a swimming pool court. Designer Tina Beebe developed with Moore the color scheme, whereby exterior planes were painted in a range of ochres, pinks, roses, and golds, so as the light and shade shifts during the day, the house itself seems to change like a chameleon.{{Attribution needed|date=October 2023}} The house was built around a tracker organ hand-built by [[Jürgen Ahrend]], an instrument known as Opus 1, U.S.A.

===Bradbury House===
{{main|Bradbury House (Los Angeles, California)}}
[[File:Bradbury House 2014 02.JPG|thumb|right|Bradbury House]]
The '''Bradbury House''' is a historic house in the Huntington Palisades neighborhood. It was designed in the [[Spanish Colonial Revival architecture|Spanish Revival]] style by architect [[John Byers (architect)|John Byers]], and it was completed in 1923.<ref name="latimesmarthagroves">{{cite news |last1=Groves |first1=Martha |title=Bradbury House in Pacific Palisades is proposed for listing on the National Register of Historic Places |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/01/bradbury-house-in-pacific-palisades-proposed-for-listing-on-national-register.html |access-date=May 11, 2016 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=January 22, 2010 |archive-date=June 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604084753/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/01/bradbury-house-in-pacific-palisades-proposed-for-listing-on-national-register.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The home was built for Lewis L Bradbury Jr,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://asnotedin.com/?action=travel&id=L0117782 |title=Bradbury House - AsNotedIn |access-date=February 17, 2021 |archive-date=April 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415054311/https://asnotedin.com/?action=travel&id=L0117782 |url-status=live }}</ref> whose father, Lewis L Bradbury, commissioned the construction of the [[Bradbury Building]] in [[Downtown Los Angeles]].<ref name="latimesmarthagroves"/> It has been listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles, California|National Register of Historic Places]] since March 22, 2010.<ref name="npsbradburyhouse">{{cite web |title=Bradbury House |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/10000110 |website=National Park Service |access-date=May 11, 2016 |archive-date=July 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701030254/http://focus.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/10000110 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Business Block===
{{main|Pacific Palisades Business Block}}
The '''Business Block''' building was a historic building located in the Palisades downtown area called the Village, prior to the 2025 fire. It served as the anchor of the downtown area, and was designed by architect Clifton Nourse and dedicated in 1924. The building was {{convert|30,000|sqft}} and sits on {{convert|36,000|sqft}} of land. The Business Block building is located between Antioch, Swarthmore and Sunset in the Village neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, an area in the [[Westside of Los Angeles, California]].<ref name="Ref 1">{{cite news |last1=Edlen |first1=Michael |title=Pacific Palisades Business Block Building Examined |url=https://palisadesnews.com/pacific-palisades-business-block-building-examined/ |access-date=February 21, 2021 |agency=Palisades News |archive-date=October 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001005359/https://palisadesnews.com/pacific-palisades-business-block-building-examined/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Dolores del Río House===
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The '''Dolores Del Río House''' is located at 757 Kingman Avenue and was designed for [[Mexican-American]] actress [[Dolores del Río]] and her husband, production designer [[Cedric Gibbons]], by architects [[Douglas Honnold]] and [[George Vernon Russell]] in 1929.<ref name="winterarch48">{{cite book |last1=Gebhard |first1=David |last2=Winter |first2=Robert |title=An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles |date=2009 |publisher=Gibbs Smith |location=Layton, Utah |isbn=9781586853082 |oclc=51559096 |page=48 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WWl29hn0C9gC&q=Douglas+Honnold&pg=PA48 |access-date=March 6, 2021 |archive-date=August 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240814013714/https://books.google.com/books?id=WWl29hn0C9gC&q=Douglas+Honnold&pg=PA48#v=snippet&q=Douglas%20Honnold&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="archdigestamodernemasterpiecerevived">{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Patricia Leigh |title=A Moderne Masterpiece Revived |url=http://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/smith-slideshow-2008-03/all |access-date=January 14, 2017 |work=[[Architectural Digest]] |date=February 29, 2008 |archive-date=January 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116171901/http://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/smith-slideshow-2008-03/all |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="pcaddelriodeloreshouse">{{cite web |title=Del Rio, Delores House #2, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA (1929) |url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/895/ |website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database |publisher=[[University of Washington]] |access-date=January 14, 2017 |archive-date=January 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116170834/http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/895/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bingen |first1=Steven |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pKePBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT398 |title=MGM: Hollywood's Greatest Backlot |last2=Sylvester |first2=Stephen X. |last3=Troyan |first3=Michael |date=February 25, 2011 |publisher=[[Santa Monica Press]] |isbn=978-1-59580-893-6 |language=en |access-date=February 17, 2021 |archive-date=August 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240814013557/https://books.google.com/books?id=pKePBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT398#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Eames House===
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[[File:Eames-House-Case-Study-House-No-8-Pacific-Palisades-California-04-2014b.jpg|thumb|[[Eames House]]]]
Eames House is the 1949 home and studio of husband-and-wife design pioneers [[Charles and Ray Eames]].

===The Getty Villa===
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[[File:Getty villa, sala 209, 2.JPG|thumb|right|Art on display at the Getty]]
The Getty Villa is an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of [[Ancient Greece]], [[Roman Empire|Rome]], and [[Etruscan civilization|Etruria]].

===Kappe Residence===
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The '''Kappe Residence''' is a house located in the [[Rustic Canyon]] section of Pacific Palisades, that was designed by architect [[Raymond Kappe]], FAIA,{{Clarify|reason=abbreviation meaning|date=October 2023}} and was intended to be his own private residence. The house is a modern design built into a heavily treed hillside. The Kappe Residence was designated a [[Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument]] in 1996, and in 2008 it was named one of the top ten houses in Los Angeles by an expert panel selected by the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.

===Mort's Palisades Deli===
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'''Mort's Palisades Deli''', more commonly referred to as '''Mort's Deli''', was a [[Jewish deli]]catessen located at 1035 Swarthmore Ave on the corner of [[Sunset Boulevard]] in the Village. Mort's was a neighborhood fixture and local landmark, which first opened in 1972 and closed in 2008 upon the building's sale to former mayor [[Richard Riordan]], who closed the deli to make way for a bistro, which itself closed after a few months. The deli was known for their [[Reuben sandwich]]es and celebrity clientele including [[Larry David]], [[Walter Matthau]], and [[Larry King]] among others, as well as being featured in numerous episodes of [[Curb Your Enthusiasm]] as ''Leo's Deli''.

===Old Santa Monica Forestry Station===
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The '''Old Santa Monica Forestry Station''' is the nation's first experimental forestry station, built in 1887. The Old Santa Monica Forestry Station was designated a [[California Historic Landmark]] (No.840) on March 20, 1970.<ref>[http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/ListedResources/Detail/840 California Parks Historic Landmark 840]</ref> Old Santa Monica Forestry Station is located in the [[Rustic Canyon, Los Angeles|Rustic Canyon]] neighborhood of Pacific Palisades. It is south of what is now called [[Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area]]. The hills and canyons around the Santa Monica Canyon were a land boom in the late 1880s. In 1971 the state placed a marker near the entrance of the [[#Parks_and_recreation|Rustic Canyon Recreation Center]] at the NW corner of Latimer and Hilltree Roads, at 601 Latimer Road; which reads:<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=119875 |title=Historical Marker database, 'Old Santa Monica Forestry Station |access-date=February 17, 2021 |archive-date=August 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240814013719/https://platform.twitter.com/widgets/widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html?origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hmdb.org |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.californiahistoricallandmarks.com/landmarks/chl-840 |title=californiahistoricallandmarks.com 'Old Santa Monica Forestry Station 840 |access-date=February 17, 2021 |archive-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513065947/https://www.californiahistoricallandmarks.com/landmarks/chl-840 |url-status=live }}</ref>
{{blockquote|In 1887, the State Board of Forestry established the nation's first experimental forestry station. Located in Rustic Canyon, the station tested exotic trees for planting in California, established plantations for management studies, and produced planting stock for scientific and conservation purposes. The station was operated by the Board of Forestry until 1893 and by the University of California until 1923.}}

===Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine===
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[[File:LakeShrineTempleSRF 20170910 3.jpg|thumb|right|Temple located at the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine]]
Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine<ref name="travel.nytimes.com"/> is a {{convert|10|acre|ha|0|abbr=off|adj=on}} spiritual center on Sunset Boulevard founded in 1950 by [[Paramahansa Yogananda]], whose classic book ''[[Autobiography of a Yogi]]'' introduced many Westerners to yoga and Eastern mysticism.

===Thomas Mann House===
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[[File:200729 Thomas Mann House ml.jpg|thumb|right|Thomas Mann House]]
Designed by JR Davidson, this was Thomas Mann's home during his exile from 1942 to 1952.

===Villa Aurora===
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[[File:Villa Aurora 11 14 08.JPG|thumb|right|Villa Aurora]]
Villa Aurora is an artists' residence, [[Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument|Historic-Cultural Monument]], and former home of exiled German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger and his wife Marta.

==Wildlife==

Pacific Palisades is home to a variety of species of wildlife, both native to the area and introduced from elsewhere.

===Wild parrots===
[[File:Nanday Parakeets6.jpg|thumb|right|Nanday parakeets resting in a tree in Pacific Palisades]]

Pacific Palisades has been noted for its large population of California wild parrots, and is one of the main areas in Southern California where wild parrots can be found. Parrots mainly live in the sycamore-lined canyons of the Palisades. Wild parrots have lived in the Palisades since the 1960s, and are said to descend from pet parrots that were released by their owners in the area in the wake of the 1961 Bel Air fire, and the closing of Busch Gardens in [[Van Nuys]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Squawk! Parrots are here to stay |url=https://patch.com/california/santamonica/squawk-parrots-are-here-stay |website=Patch |date=January 9, 2016 |access-date=February 14, 2021 |archive-date=November 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128114418/https://patch.com/california/santamonica/squawk-parrots-are-here-stay |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Immigrating Parrots Find Asylum in L.A. |url=https://messengermountainnews.com/immigrating-parrots-find-asylum-in-l-a/ |access-date=February 14, 2021 |agency=Messenger Mountain News |archive-date=April 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410041438/https://messengermountainnews.com/immigrating-parrots-find-asylum-in-l-a/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Pacific Palisades is home to numerous species of parrots, and the most commonly-sighted species is the [[Nanday parakeet]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Parrots in the Palisades |url=https://egretsnest.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/parrots-in-the-palisades/ |website=Egrets Nest |date=April 14, 2009 |access-date=February 14, 2021 |archive-date=November 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124213346/https://egretsnest.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/parrots-in-the-palisades/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Other species of parrots found in the Palisades include the [[mitred parakeet]], [[yellow-chevroned parakeet]], [[white-winged parakeet]], [[rose-ringed parakeet]], [[red-masked parakeet]], [[blue-crowned parakeet]], [[red-crowned parrot]], [[lilac-crowned parrot]], [[white-fronted parrot]], [[blue-fronted parrot]], [[yellow-headed parrot]], and the [[red-lored parrot]].<ref>{{cite web |title=California's Naturalized Parrots |url=https://www.californiaparrotproject.org/parrot_pages.html |website=The California Parrot Project |access-date=February 14, 2021 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126021936/http://californiaparrotproject.org/parrot_pages.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

==In popular culture==
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* [[Jerry Lewis]] lived on Amalfi Drive in Pacific Palisades during the 1950s. He shot several Gar-Ron Productions home movies at that house with neighbors [[Tony Curtis]] and [[Janet Leigh]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Home Movies and More from the Jerry Lewis Collection at the Library of Congress |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5019 |website=MoMA |access-date=March 6, 2019 |archive-date=March 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306235232/https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5019 |url-status=live }}</ref> He became the honorary mayor of the Palisades in 1953.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Meyer |first1=Matthew |title=Former Palisadian Mayor Jerry Lewis Dies at 91 |url=https://www.palipost.com/former-palisadian-mayor-jerry-lewis-dies-91/ |website=Palisadian-Post |date=August 24, 2017 |access-date=March 6, 2019 |archive-date=March 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306235236/https://www.palipost.com/former-palisadian-mayor-jerry-lewis-dies-91/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* The [[Beach Boys]] 1963 hit "[[Surfin' U.S.A. (song)|Surfin' U.S.A.]]" mentions Pacific Palisades in its list of Southern California surf spots.
* The 1976 book, ''[[What Really Happened to the Class of '65?]]'' is about members of one of Palisades High School's early graduating classes and how their once-privileged lives turned out years later, often disastrously. The book, by author [[David Wallechinsky]], son of novelist [[Irving Wallace]], and his classmate, film critic [[Michael Medved]], described Pacific Palisades as a microcosm of America during the tumultuous [[Summer of Love]] era.<ref>{{cite news |title=Script Has Changed-What Really Happened to That Golden Class of '65 |first=LYNN |last=SIMROSS |work=Los Angeles Times |date=June 30, 1985 |page=1 }}</ref>
* The [[West Coast Avengers]], a California-based branch of the [[Marvel Comics]] superhero team, were depicted as based out of an estate in Pacific Palisades.<ref name="AWCv1no1">''Avengers West Coast'' vol. 1 # 1, cover date September 1984</ref>
* ''[[Pacific Palisades (TV series)|Pacific Palisades]]'', a 1997 TV series produced by [[Aaron Spelling]], was named after the area.
* The characters on the teen show ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'' (1989–1993) mention on several occasions that their school is located in Pacific Palisades.
* Popular show ''[[90210 (TV series)|90210]]'' mentions Palisades High as their rivals and has filmed some episodes on the beach and at a local restaurant, Cafe Vida.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
* British [[alternative rock]] band [[Ash (band)|Ash]] included a song entitled "Pacific Palisades" on their 2001 album ''[[Free All Angels]]''.
* Rapper [[Childish Gambino]]'s 2013 album [[Because the Internet]] was recorded in the former mansion of athlete [[Chris Bosh]]. The short film ''[[Clapping for the Wrong Reasons]]'', which Glover both wrote and starred in, was filmed at the mansion as well. The Palisades are mentioned on the album in the song [[Sweatpants (song)|IV. Sweatpants]], along with the follow-up mixtape [[STN MTN / Kauai|Kauai]], which features a track named "The Palisades".{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
* In ''[[Modern Family]]'', the Dunphy children attend Palisades Charter High School.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
* The main character of the TV series ''[[Transparent (TV series)|Transparent]]'' lives in a house in Pacific Palisades.
* Rapper [[Kendrick Lamar]] mentioned the Palisades on his albums [[Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers]] and [[Untitled Unmastered]].{{importance inline|date=January 2025}}
* The [[Hyundai Palisade]] is named after Pacific Palisades.

===Filming locations===
* Some scenes of ''[[Prizzi's Honor]]'' were filmed at 15025 Corona Del Mar. The house has since been demolished.
* ''[[Havoc (2005 film)|Havoc]]'' was set in the Palisades and filmed at [[Palisades Charter High School]].
* The 2003 Disney film ''[[Freaky Friday (2003 film)|Freaky Friday]]'' with [[Jamie Lee Curtis]] and [[Lindsay Lohan]] was filmed at Palisades Charter High School.
* The 2001 film ''[[Crazy/Beautiful]]'' starring [[Kirsten Dunst]] was filmed at Palisades Charter High School.
* The house used for the exterior shots of the Pearson residence in the 1979 film ''[[Phantasm (film)|Phantasm]]'' is located at 1232 Corsica Drive in Pacific Palisades.
* [[Black Flag (band)|Black Flag]]'s "Slip It In" music video was filmed at Palisades High School.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
* The 1977 [[NBC]] television program ''[[James at 16]]'', starring [[Lance Kerwin]], was filmed at [[Palisades Charter High School|Palisades High School]].{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
* The 1976 film ''[[Carrie (1976 film)|Carrie]]'' was filmed at Palisades High School.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
* The 1957 film ''[[No Down Payment]]'' has several sequences around Pacific Palisades posing as a Los Angeles suburb.
* [[Food Network]]'s ''[[Everyday Italian]]'' is filmed on El Medio.
* The TV series ''[[Baywatch]]'' was filmed at Lifeguard Headquarters by tower 15 of [[Will Rogers State Beach]] in Pacific Palisades.
* The TV series ''[[The Rockford Files]]'' was often filmed in and around the Palisades in the 1970s.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
* The TV series ''[[Popular (TV series)|Popular]]'' filmed at Palisades Charter High School.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
* The TV series ''[[Modern Family]]'' filmed some scenes at Palisades Charter High School.
* The first-season residence of the television series ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' was a home in Pacific Palisades. For subsequent seasons, a facade house was built on the [[Disney]]/[[MGM]] back lot.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
* The 2012 film [[Project X (2012 film)|''Project X'']] features scenes filmed at Palisades Charter High School.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
* The HBO series ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'' features both the real-life and in-universe Pacific Palisades residence of [[Larry David]].
* The TV series ''[[Teen Wolf (2011 TV series)|Teen Wolf]]'' was filmed at Palisades Charter High School.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
* The 2014 movie ''[[God's Not Dead (film)|God's Not Dead]]'' had scenes filmed at 1033 Ravoli Drive in Pacific Palisades.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
* The 2014 movie ''Redeemed'', starring Pacific Palisades resident [[Ted McGinley]], also was filmed at 1033 Ravoli Drive.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

==Notable people==

{{Main|List of people from Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles}}

== See also ==

* [[List of districts and neighborhoods in Los Angeles]]
* [[Old Santa Monica Forestry Station]] in Pacific Palisades.

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Young, Betty Lou, ''Pacific Palisades: Where the Mountains Meet the Sea'', Pacific Palisades Historical Society Press (1983)

==External links==
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* [http://www.palisadeschamber.com Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce]
* [http://www.pacpalicc.org Pacific Palisades Community Council]

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| Northeast = [[Will Rogers State Historic Park]]
| East = [[Brentwood, Los Angeles, California|Brentwood]]
| Southeast = [[Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica]]
| South = Pacific Ocean – [[Santa Monica Bay]]
| Southwest = Pacific Ocean – [[Santa Monica Bay]]
| West = [[Malibu, California|Malibu]]
| Northwest = [[Topanga, California|Topanga]] – [[Topanga State Park]]
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