When Mary Melton went hiking through the Verdugo Mountains one weekend in January of last year, she was struck by the lack of signs to guide hikers through the trails. The editor-in-chief of Los Angeles magazine was actually scouting the area with her friends and son, who was 9 years old at the time, for the publication’s April hiking issue.
Information available online or on-site detailing where to go and how to get there was scant — they even got lost a couple of times, relying on other hikers for directions.
Late last month, the Glendale Parks and Open Space Foundation, in partnership with the magazine, launched a crowd-funding campaign to make the signage, which is projected to cost $20,000, a reality.
“It’s a way of making people safe, especially safe when there’s an emergency.”
The cost estimate includes the design, fabrication and installation of 35 directional signs and six trail-head signs along the 25 miles of trails and fire roads used for hiking and biking in the Verdugos.
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