My parents were from Swansea, not far from Griffith's birthplace, and being of Welsh blood and having for decades enjoyed the attractions of Griffith Park I find the history of the park fascinating.
Griffith Jenkins Griffith (1850–1919) was a Welsh-born American industrialist and philanthropist. After immigrating to the United States in 1865 and amassing a significant fortune from a mining syndicate in the 1880s, in 1882 Griffith moved to Los Angeles and purchased approximately 4,000 acres of the Rancho Los Feliz Mexican land grant. On December 16, 1896, Griffith and his wife Christina donated 3,015 acres of the Rancho Los Feliz to the city of Los Angeles for use as a public park. Griffith called it "a Christmas present." After accepting the donation, the city passed an ordinance to name the property Griffith Park, in honor of the donor.
"It must be made a place of rest and relaxation for the masses, a resort for the rank and file, for the plain people," Griffith told the Los Angeles City Council when he donated the land. "I consider it my obligation to make Los Angeles a happy, cleaner, and finer city. I wish to pay my debt of duty in this way to the community in which I have prospered."
Griffith later donated another 1,000 acres along the Los Angeles River, and he bequeathed the money to build the park's Greek Theatre and Griffith Observatory. Unfortunately, Griffith's legacy was marred by his notorious shooting of his wife in 1903, a crime for which he served two years in prison. The shot did not kill her, but she was left disfigured and lost her right eye. Griffith was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder. The prosecution was led by Henry T. Gage, former governor of California. Griffith was defended by attorney Earl Rogers, whose cross-examination of the veiled Mrs. Griffith revealed that her husband—generally thought to be a teetotaler—was in fact a secret drunk who was subject to paranoid delusions. Griffith was convicted of a lesser charge, assault with a deadly weapon. The judge sentenced him to two years in San Quentin State Prison, instructing that he be given "medical aid for his condition of alcoholic insanity". (Thanks, Wikipedia)
Along with being one of the country's largest municipal parks (Central Park...bah!) Griffith Park is allegedly home to various ghosts and supernatural creatures.
All of this has absolutely nothing to do with the cache but hey, if one can't educate... This little micro grab serves primarily to confirm one possible starting point for your hike or bike to Haunted Over-La-La-Look, and, let's just admit it, to pad your stats on the way.