Hollywood Sign Burbank studio lot and up the north face of Mount Lee to a new visitors area near the sign. Other proposals stakeholders have set forth include establishing an official visitor's center for the sign, public shuttle service to lead tourists to the sign or trails, or even erecting a duplicate sign on the opposite side of Mount Lee. The Hollywood Sign Trust directs visitors to two viewing platforms, Griffith Observatory and the Hollywood and Highland Center. Visitors can hike to the sign from the Bronson Canyon entrance to Griffith Park or from Griffith Observatory. There is also a trailhead near
Mount Emerson (California) suggested that Muir might have intended to confer the poet's name on Mount Humphreys which had already been named by the Whitney Survey. Mount Emerson (California) Mount Emerson is located in the Sierra Nevada in Inyo County in eastern California in the southwestern United States. Mount Emerson is the 116th highest mountain in California and the 671st highest mountain in the United States. Mount Emerson is named in honor of the essayist, poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. John Muir wrote in a letter to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr that "I have named a grand wide-winged mountain on the head