How to go to Hollywood Sign

Usually, the first thing that we do is put the Hollywood Sign in Google maps, and follow the direction, and hopefully it will take us to the Hollywood sign. Well yes, it will take you to Hollywood Sign, but not that close.

I wanted to have a picture that as much as possible close to it. So I’ve done some research, and there are really helpful videos that explains on where is that perfect spot.

So now, to pay it forward, I will try my best to explain it too, since I’m not really good at directions ?

First thing, we want to go there early, since it’s traffic and we wanted to beat the people who are also planning to go there.

So we had our breakfast, and left around 7:30am. The traffic is really heavy during rush hour, actually even off peak, so we arrived around 8:30am. Or we thought so, haha.

If you’re planning to go to Hollywood Sign, set Lakewood Hollywood Park, and just park wherever you want, as long as there’s still space. Well, our google maps, just stopped and said we’ve arrived in our destination, which is not. So I used my offline GPS and it said, we will need to walk like 30mins to the park. We didn’t bring our car, and opted to walk. Ohhhh, bad decision, haha. It was a really long walk, but it was OK, since it’s still morning and it’s not that hot yet.

We arrived to the park, and it is the familiar park I’ve seen so I know we’re on the right one, and yes, we saw the sign.

Well we were tired, so we rest for a bit and watched some dogs playing around the park. After some time we started our hike.

It’s an uphill hike, but it’s not that hard.And it was kinda windy too. So I took some photo of the sign where most of the tourist take their shot.

And we go on, and here’s the next shot which is good too ?

We walked all the way, well just straight, we just followed the path.

We took some pictures, where the Sign is getting really close, but the background is not that good.

So we keep on walking until we saw some signs like this one.

We just went to the left arrow, and well I can’t remember if this picture (below), is before the sign (above) or after.

It says, road closed, I guess cars are not allowed to go up here. But I guess you can still enter by foot. So we just keep on walking ? .

And finally, we saw the white gate, where you will enter to the left side, and you will see the yellow entrance gate. Here’s the best spot for the Hollywood sign ? .

And surprisingly there’s only few people in the area, considering it’s almost 10:00am. So we really got our great shots and even took our boomerang ?  .

We decided to go back, and we didn’t really plan on going to the back of Hollywood sign, so sorry I can’t help you on that, but there’s some people who might have took some videos and shared on how to get there.

It was getting hot, and when we were almost at the park, we noticed that the park was almost full, so I guess, we arrived at a good time ? 

But then again, we didn’t park in the Lake Hollywood Park, so it was a dreaded walk for us ? . It’s almost lunch time, and the weather is so hot. At least we got to see the sign and was able to eat In-N-Out Burger after ? . Then time to explore Los Angeles city.