<Tr> <Th> Operated by </Th> <Td> Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Open </Th> <Td> All year </Td> </Tr> <P> Franklin Canyon Park is a public park located near Benedict Canyon at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains . The park comprises 605 acres (2.45 km), and is located at the purported geographical center of the city of Los Angeles . The park features a 3 - acre (12,000 m) lake, a duck pond and over five miles (8 km) of hiking trails . The lake and pond are visited by birds in the Pacific Flyway . The park was used for the hitchhiking scene in It Happened One Night, and the opening credits of The Andy Griffith Show . The lake was also frequently seen in the Nickelodeon show Salute Your Shorts . </P> <P> The park traces its beginnings to 1914 when William Mulholland and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power built a reservoir in upper Franklin Canyon . The canyon was used by the family of oil baron Edward L. Doheny as a summer retreat . The 1930s began the frequent use of the canyon for filming . Claudette Colbert's famous hitchhiking scene from It Happened One Night was filmed in 1935 . Today about 25 films are shot here annually . During the 1970s the canyon was spared from development through the efforts of conservationist Sooky Goldman and Congressman Howard Berman, which resulted in the creation of the park . </P>

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