Echo Park is a neighborhood in Los Angeles northwest of downtown. According to the website “Historic Echo Park” the neighborhood has no
official boundaries or borders. Generally, it is east and southeast of Silver Lake, north of Westlake/MacArthur Park, west and northwest of Chinatown and southwest of Elysian Park. Echo Park itself consists of the neighborhoods of Echo Park (the area immediately surrounding the lake and extending approximately a mile north on Echo Park Avenue), Angelino Heights, Colton Hill, Edendale and Elysian Heights. Dodger Stadium lies at the eastern edge of Echo Park.
The origin of the name Echo Park is not totally clear.Legend has it that the name Echo Park came into use in the 1890s after workers building the newly established city park now called “Echo Park” discovered that their voices “echoed” off the bluffs and hillsides to the east and west. A variation of that legend says the name was coined more than 20 years earlier when workers constructing a dam (more…)
