TreePeople

Great place to volunteer. You will learn so much about the environment while meeting nice people. They do so much to help the environment of Los Angles and Southern California. Truly a gem.

Let’s hike y’all! this is the place! Come visit. Worth the drive. Want to leave without really leaving? Come to tree people.

When my big teenaged twins were tiny tots & for years beyond, we came to Tree People, walked the trails & explored the nearby faraway world it held for them. It was and is a magical spot.

This is my wife and I’s favorite hike. It’s only 5 minutes from our place, and a great spot to take guests when they are in town. There are amazing views of the city, and plenty of great spots for photos. There are lots of paths to take, some being harder than others. There are quite a few inclines, but I would still consider it an easier hike compared to others. Dog’s are welcome on a leash, and the paths are plenty wide for numerous people. You can park at the top of Cold Water Canyon, or down at the bottom off of Laurel Canyon. Such a great place to walk/​run.

4÷25÷2015 Amazing hike. You start at Laurel canyon, park your car and you stay your walk. It’s about 1 ½ miles up. Steep steep hills and 1 ½ miles down. Your basically walking with a lot of people you don’t know. There is a few stops up the hill where there is water for you and your dog. Once you reach the tree people, there is big bathrooms and they are so clean. Once you have reached the tree people your basically at Coldwater Canyon. Then it’s downhill from there all the way to your car. The downhill is on about a ¹⁄₁₀ of a mile dirt road and the rest is a quiet residential streets all the way to your car. Loved it!

Awsome trail.
Beautiful views and plenty of civilization at a moments notice.

Today was my first time visiting the park, and I have to say, the views are absolutely stunning! There’s a ton of different trials deviating from the main one, allowing you to see the canyon in all it’s beauty, and really inspiring that adventurous nature in you.
We parked at the top of the trial on Coldwater Canyon. It’s free to park, although there are signs posted explaining this could be an issue at busier times, so beware. Also, you’re going to have to walk down the trial before walking back up again to your parking spot, so if you’re the person who would rather get the hard work out the way first and walk up the mountain I suggest parking at the bottom. Either way there’s a few really nice benches scattered throughout the park giving you the perfect chance to rest and soak in the surrounding environment.
On a side note, and if you are feeling that tad more adventurous I would definitely take one of the alternate trails to the other side of the mountain because in my opinion the views are much better over there :)

This is a great place for a casual hike. It’s a clean park, pet friendly, with really clean bathrooms. It starts easy (most people turn right at the bottom of the stairs). The middle part is a walk through a neighborhood of beautiful, diverse houses. Kinda weird at first. Once you re-​enter the park the second half is a steep, challenging incline. One loop takes me about 45 – 50 minutes.
Parking is free off of Coldwater Canyon. There’s another parking lot, too which I hear isn’t free. I would come here more often it were closer to my house.

Time for a hike and some good fresh air! This place is beautifully set in the hills between Hollywood and the valley and has some of my favorite views in town! Great nature spot, family spot of a cute date hike you’ll all love it I did! Try some of the guided trail to have super fun and try something educational too!

I have been coming to this park for about 8 years off and on. I love this park. beautiful views and pet friendly. It’s a true oasis for the person who loves all things nature and wants a green earth with lush trees and clean air.
I especially like that they have lessons on how to be green! Don’t trash it up, instead taking it in, take a deep breath and enjoy mother nature and all of its beauty!

How could anyone not fall in love with this place? Are you a volunteer, a botanist or a tree hugger? Whatever the case may be, you will love this place if you’d like nature. Tree peeps is a gem!
So yeah, I did a hike today and it went down into a neighborhood in Studio City about 30 minutes into the hike. Then you have the option of going back onto the trail and it starts going up very steadily and steep. Thankfully they have 1 million stairs to guide you up that way. What a great way to get exercise and observe the scenery altogether.
This facility also is extraordinarily environmentally friendly. They have many volunteers to assist in planting native Californian vegetation in areas of need. For example, if there was a fire, the TreePeople will go and assist by planting trees to the devastated areas. This not for profit organization has a lot to offer. Beautiful hikes, nice people and they do something really good for the environment.
Go and check them out and maybe even find out about donating a little bit to them. I think they are well deserving!

This is a great place to come for a casual hike, especially towards the evening time. You can enjoy a great view of the city while the sun is setting. I’m not a big hiker, but I really enjoyed coming here a few weeks ago for some mild exercise with my family. The views were spectacular, and there is a nice trail that you can follow up and down with relative ease.
There were quite a number of other people here, but it was never too crowded that I ran into anybody else. It also seems to be quite a popular spot for people to bring their kids and dogs, so it’s a perfect spot to enjoy time with your family or friends. On the way back to the main entrance though we took some smaller paths, and I would caution against doing so because we saw a huge rattlesnake on the trail. We were okay, but if you’re not used to dealing with snakes, you should probably keep to the main big trail. If you do choose to venture around, make sure to keep an eye out!

How can anyone give TreePeople anything but five stars?
What is TreePeople? TreePeople is a vision of a fifteen-​year-​old boy who had an interest in collecting seeds of native species of trees. That became the non-​profit TreePeople, which is now an organization of mostly volunteers that helps restore native species, remove invasive species, replant fire-​devastated areas, and even water local trees suffering in the drought.
TreePeople gets no federal, state, or local government funding and operates completely on volunteers and donations.
The TreePeople facility maintains the lower canyon hiking trails, which is about 60 acres of outdoor activities.
I am a volunteer for TreePeople and I think the organization is amazing in what they/​we do, and the amount of pride that goes into the work. We are not hippies, but people whop have a genuine love for Los Angeles and it’s vast array of landscapes. Loving L.A. includes loving the forests and wilderness within.
Donate your time — two hours a week. I think you will be very happy that you did.

I don’t know who these Tree People are, sounds like a group out of Lord of the Rings or Star Wars, but I like what they are doing!
First off they offer free parking to use Coldwater Canyon Park. You need to pay at the Fryman entrance.
B. They have planted more than 2 million trees. 2 MILLION! Bravo
And lastly, They offer guided full moon hikes for $ 5, how awesome is that?! As well as summer performances in the outdoor amphitheater and youth programs to educate our children on urban forestry.
Through volunteers and donations they are making LA greener and how can you not give that 5 stars?
There are picnic tables, water fountains and benches galore all along their mulch lined trails which smell amazing by the way. What a breath of fresh air, literally.

This place is amazing even on a hot day like today. Just imagine city views with beautiful trails for hiking. My team came to tree people today for a volunteer event. The staff was very nice and educated us on water conservation. I would come back just to explore the trails and enjoy the park we helped cleaned up.

I took a field trip here in November with my sons class. It was a great experience. The instructors knew a lot about outdoors and taught the kids quite a bit about nature. We did hike quite a bit and make a few stops at learning locations, which was great to break up all of the walking. At the end, each of the kids planted a seed and were given instructions on how to grow it. Now if only my son would remember to water it!

I enjoyed a wonderful hike here today with a girl friend. There are many different trail options depending on how hard core you are feeling on a given day. We hiked for quite a while and it seemed like we could have easily hiked for a lot longer without covering the same ground. Gorgeous views here, lots of different interesting trees and plants, and adorable doggies walking their humans. There is a very nice restroom near the parking lot. I can’t wait to go hiking here again!

What a FANTASTIC little edupark, and free too!
It’s located right on the Fryman Canyon trail, which makes for a great built-​in treehugger experience. The trail is very manageable; it’s hard to imagine anyone in reasonable shape struggling with it at all. So take a hike, check out TreePeople, and revel in this little pocket of nature plopped in the middle of LA.

3 stars for hiking trail distances — 5 stars for the well maintained and pleasant looking grounds lands TreePeople 4 stars!
Oh my! After reading several of the reviews for TreePeople, I am SO glad we did not run into a bunch of snakes or even a single snake for that matter today. Regardless of how much I adore hiking I would have been Petrified!!! Thank goodness I was with the one person who I want to be all over but I would have jumped on him faster than he’d know what to do with. I am surely going to be on the lookout when venturing on these trails in the future.
One thing to know about these trails are they are extremely short! I say short because I’m the type of person who can hike for HOURS upon HOURS and cover many many miles.
These trails (aside from the reviewed snake sightings) I believe are best for small children, heck toddlers even. Perhaps, I’m a pretty active person but I view these trails as extremely moderate and very short. I see this being a perfect place for the little ones — while still nice for active adults but nowhere near strenuous by any stretch of the imagination.
I have always had a «one trail» mind when it comes to hiking in this area — I usually will hike Fryman Cyn (Wilacre Park) but have only ever ventured onto the TreePeople premises once or twice to poke around and never really thought there were many trails to follow. I usually choose this hike for a quick little something in the area.
Today, however we explored a bunch more which was great since Fryman is pretty much over soon after it starts — adding in the beautiful well maintained trails of TreePeople can really add a little extra to your stroll. We did notice, there are tons of fountains and benches for sitting — this all adds to the beauty of the grounds but seriously who is hiking up here that needs all this water and all these rest stops — a 90 year old with an oxygen tank in a depends diaper???
I know they host several field trips for elementary schools as my son has been here a couple times and really enjoyed himself and felt the staff were fun, friendly and informative — perhaps all the benches and fountains are for the kiddies on field trips — I’m really not sure.
Some of the trails near the Coldwater Cyn side of TreePeople are so close to the street that you still hear and see the traffic so you don’t feel the same sense of relaxation as inland trails.
It’s a beautiful little spot in the mountain. The small outdoor amphitheater is also lovely and I can’t wait to check out their moonlight hikes (fingers crossed they are snake free)
Now — for fun, let’s count the number of times I wrote «trails» in the above review ;)

«Let’s go to Tree People!» is obviously a sentence which due to its grammatical incorrectness, would leave many people (including myself) a bit baffled. Are Tree People a group of tree-​hugging, granola-​eating, hippies singing kumba-​ya? Is it a village of statues in the form of people made out of tree bark? It’s sort of all of those, in a way. Okay, not really about the people statues.
Tree People is a non-​profit organization with its headquarters located at the top of a peak in Coldwater Canyon Park. It resides at the homebase of the old Mountain Patrol station #1 of the LA Fire department in the 1920s. Meaning, they were the rangers on horses whom kept an eye out for forest and wild fires. Smokey the Bear’s best friends, if you will. Today, Tree People is an organization which hosts school field trips (the kiddos get to plant trees and learn about sustainability and geology), plays at the amphitheater, and even weddings and events in their community center/​hall.
While at Tree People, you will encounter a beautifully maintained nature center with several hiking paths (you almost don’t know where to begin!) which extend into Coldwater Canyon Park and small exhibits explaining tree planting, a small depiction of a road and storm drains leading to the ocean, and home money-​saving and earth-​saving sustainability ideas.
Such as: connecting your rain gutters to a barrel to save water during our rainy weeks and then a hose to the barrel to water those plants in the summer. What a great idea! Immediately my boyfriend excitedly yelled, «Let’s do this when we have a house!». Some of the hiking paths also have small learning outposts where kids can learn about various rock formations and rock layers form. Basically, Tree People has provided a family-​oriented hiking center which is good for both the learning brain and the physical self.
PLEASE TAKE NOTE: Tree People is merely the nonprofit organization and the community center at the top of the peak. The hiking trails and other areas mentioned in the other reviews are falsely in this listing when they should be in the Coldwater Canyon Park listing.
Hippies or tree statues, Tree People is a wonderful organization and a great place for adults and children alike to begin or end an afternoon’s hike. Plus, it is free! That’s always welcome!