Vermont Canyon Road Tunnel
Videos
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Vermont Canyon Road Tunnel in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" Vermont Canyon Road Tunnel stars in Roger Rabbit as the entrance to "Toontown". It shows up at 0.43 in this clip and again when Benny and Eddie leave Toontown. Touchstone Pictures, Director: Robert Zemeckis |
Vermont to the Sea This video shows a trip from the Vermont Canyon Road Tunnel to the Pacific Ocean at Point Firmen Kimbrough Photography |
Facts
- Overview
- Tunnel under Griffith Park hillside on Vermont Canyon Rd
- Location
- Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Design
- Concrete tunnel
- Dimensions
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Span length: 328.1 ft.
Total length: 328.1 ft.
- Also called
- Griffith Park Tunnel
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +34.12365, -118.30104 (decimal degrees)
34°07'25" N, 118°18'04" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/380022/3776630 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Hollywood
- Inventory number
- BH 46691 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 20, 2012: New Street View added by Clark Vance
- October 19, 2012: New video from David Kimbrough
- January 9, 2011: New Street View added by David Kimbrough
- December 28, 2010: New video from David Kimbrough
- October 25, 2010: Added by Craig Philpott
Sources
- Craig Philpott - craigphilpott63 [at] gmail [dot] com
- David Kimbrough - kimbrough-photo [at] charter [dot] net
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
Comments
There is no end to the number of movies / TV shows / commercials filmed here. There was a scene for example from Barton Fink set at the same intersection East Observatory Road and Vermont Canyon Canyon Road meet right before this tunnel. Likewise there was scene from "War Games" where it was the entrance to NORAD. It would seem that in the TV Show "The OC" (which I myself have never seen) Marissa Cooper dies in a car accident there as well. I recall an episode "Mission Impossible" where the tunnel showed up.
This is also the tunnel in Back to the Future Part II that Biff chases Marty while he rides a Hoverboard. I know it because i looked it up.
You can't fool me! This is the tunnel to Toon Town! If you doubt me watch "Who Framed Rodger Rabbit?". It also shows up in many television shows and advertisements because it looks like a place in the remote mountains but it is in the city park between Burbank and LA.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ca/los-angeles/vermont-canyon-road-tunnel/
Nice video David. I lived in the South Bay and had been through the tunnel many times but it never occurred to me that it was the same Vermont that I knew in San Pedro!