Discovering Griffith Park. Casey Schreiner

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      Depending on whom you ask, William Mulholland was either the savior of a thirsty Los Angeles or the villain who robbed an entire watershed of its lifeblood. Like Griffith J. Griffith, the guy was a complicated figure, but there’s little doubt that Mulholland’s magnum opus of engineering—the Los Angeles Aqueduct—is what allowed the pueblo to grow into the megalopolis it is today.

      In 2013, the existing Mulholland Memorial Fountain was renovated to include the L.A. Aqueduct Centennial Garden, which celebrates the onehundredth anniversary of when Mulholland opened up the floodgates, taking water from the Owens Valley and giving it to Los Angeles. The garden—which is technically outside Griffith Park on Department of Water and Power land—tells the story of the aqueduct with a short trail that mirrors its actual path and a piece of the original aqueduct that visitors can stand inside. The garden consists of drought-tolerant and California native plants, and sits near the spot where Mulholland supposedly lived in a shack when he first moved to the city.