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Hancock Park is a city park in the Miracle Mile section of the Mid-Wilshire district, Los Angeles, California. The park and its La Brea Tar Pits are one of the most popular tourist attractions in Los Angeles.〔(Arcadia Publishing: "La Brea Tar Pits and Hancock Park" ) . accessed 21 June 2014.〕 Hancock Park was created in 1924 when George Allan Hancock donated 23 acres of the Hancock Ranch to the County of Los Angeles with the stipulation that the park be preserved and its fossils properly exhibited.〔(George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits: History of Rancho La Brea and the La Brea Tar Pits excavations )〕 The park is not within the Hancock Park neighborhood, which is approximately to the northeast. ==Features== The park has urban open spaces and landscaped areas for walking, picnicking, and other recreation. Located on Wilshire Boulevard just east of Fairfax Avenue, it extends across a large city block and around two museums. The landmark Park La Brea complex is across 6th Street on the north. Hancock Park is the location of the La Brea Tar Pits, the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits overseen by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County,〔(George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits: the Page Museum )〕 and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) campus of buildings and sculpture gardens. The 1952 Mid-century modern style Observation Pit in the park, a repository for large Ice Age fossils from throughout the tar pit area, reopened in 2014 after being closed since the mid-1990s. It is part of the Page Museum’s new Excavator Tour.〔(Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits: the Observation Pit )〕 The Pit 91 fossil excavation, also reopened in 2014 for excavations and public viewing, had closed in 2006 to focus on fossils newly uncovered during excavation for LACMA's new subterranean parking garage in the park's western area.〔(LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's Blog: Hancock Park—"Magic in the muck" ) . accessed 21 June 2014.〕 The skeleton of a near-complete Columbian mammoth was among the excavated discoveries there.〔 The Pleistocene Garden recreates the original prehistoric landscape habitats in the Hancock Park area, representing the native vegetation of the Los Angeles Basin 10,000 to 40,000 years ago. The plant list was created from 35 years of research in the Pit 91 fossil excavation. It represents four ecoregions, Coastal sage scrub, Riparian, Deep Canyon California oak woodlands, and California montane chaparral.〔(Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits: the Pleistocene Garden )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hancock Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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