Campus Road provides a vital car-free connection for Eagle Rock residents to travel between the Occidental College neighborhood and Yosemite Recreation Center, Eagle Rock Junior/Senior High School, and other destinations in the community. However, outdated barriers installed decades ago make the gate inaccessible to people pushing child strollers and bicycles. Redesigning this entry point will allow more neighbors to avoid lengthy detours for walking and biking between these important Eagle Rock destinations.
We can change this! Join TERA and adjacent neighbors in advocating for the City of Los Angeles to improve this local community connection.
Join The Eagle Rock Association (TERA), Abundant Housing LA, Eastside Housing for All for an Urban Hike through Eagle Rock! This 4-mile walk will explore Eagle Rock’s evolving landscape, housing history, and transit future. We will stop at key sites including a small lot subdivision, a controversial ED1 project, Occidental College, and the future Colorado Boulevard BRT route.
What You Will Learn at This Event:
1: How exclusionary zoning, ED1 streamlining, and local tenant protections shape Northeast LA.
2: The potential for building affordable housing on faith lands (SB 4) and reviving neighborhood corner stores.
3: Immediate ways to organize with Eastside Housing for All and TERA to advocate for transit-oriented communities.
Route & Accessibility Note: This hike includes a steep, unpaved trail over Fiji Hill. Attendees who prefer to skip the steep climb can proceed directly to the Oxy FEAST garden to rest and meet back up with the group. Please wear sturdy shoes and bring plenty of water!
Nate Mercereau Ensemble in 2021 – photo by Glen Han
TERA is pleased to announce Sylvan Sounds: a FREE concert at the historic Sylvan Amphitheater in Yosemite Recreation Center featuring Jeff Parker Expansion Duo, a collaboration between acclaimed local musicians Jeff Parker and Jeremiah Chiu, with a separate set by experimental beat musician megiapa, and sounds by DJ Scottie McNiece.
We invite you to join us for this family-friendly event! Bring a blanket or seat cushion, a picnic and water, your friends, family, neighbors, and/or well behaved pups. We kindly request that you don’t smoke or bring alcohol into the park.
Sitting on a hillside adjacent to Occidental College’s campus, the Sylvan Theater was constructed in 1931 as an emergency jobs program project during the Great Depression. The amphitheater is accessible from Yosemite Drive, the La Roda Avenue cul de sac, and via a pedestrian gate on Campus Road.
Image courtesy of the Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society
Sylvan Sounds is an effort spearheaded by TERA’s Public Spaces working group. This initiative seeks to activate and improve Eagle Rock’s local parks and public spaces. TERA advocates for care through use, and is engaging with the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks to help maintain and improve the Sylvan Theater. If you are interested in being a part of this effort, please let us know!
TERA is a 501c3 non-profit neighborhood association fueled by the support of neighbors like you. Please consider supporting our work so we can plan future events by becoming a member. Donations to TERA are tax deductible within Federal limits.
Join TERA member Ryan Johnson on a FREE walking tour of picturesque Hill Drive with some short detours to talk about some local history. We’ll gather at Unincorporated Coffee (2160 Colorado) around 8:30am-8:45am to grab a coffee and will head out promptly at 9am.
Kids are welcome and the walk will generally be on flat streets. We will walk a 3 mile loop and should be back at Unincorporated Coffee around 11am.
This event is free but we welcome your donations, which will help us to plan future walks. TERA is a 501c3 nonprofit and donations are tax deductible within Federal limits.
Join TERA board member Colleen Corcoran on her favorite hillside streets, stairs, and trails in Eagle Rock. We’ll start at ROCK Coffee (4808 Townsend) for a coffee before we head out at 9am.
Kids are welcome, but we will be on some steep streets and trails where strollers are not accessible. Hiking shoes recommended! We will walk a 2.5 mile loop and should be back at ROCK before 11:00.
Our TERA Public Space Committee is working to highlight and improve walking and biking connectivity in Eagle Rock — on our boulevards, and neighborhood streets, our sidewalks, trails, stairways and parks.
We’re kicking off this work in 2026 with a walk led by TERA member Claire Bowin, an urban planner, landscape designer, ceramicist, and longtime Eagle Rocker. She’ll share with us her favorite route connecting Yosemite and Eagle Rock Rec Centers, and we’ll discuss walking, pedestrian safety, and the sites of Eagle Rock along the way.
Join us Saturday 2/21, 8am–10am meet in front of Yosemite Rec Center
TERA continues to monitor and provide productive feedback on Metro’s North Hollywood to Pasadena Bus Rapid Transit project. In reviewing updated 30% engineering documents, TERA provided detailed feedback urging providing better landscaping elements, better pedestrian access, and safer and more intuitive bicycle facilities. Read our letter to Metro with comments on current engineering plans:
I am writing this at a time when fires continue to ravage Los Angeles, from the Palisades Fire on the Westside to the Eaton Fire uncomfortably close to our home of Eagle Rock. While the power is back on in our neighborhood and our air is starting to get better, our sidewalks, homes, and yards are littered with ash and soot—a lingering reminder of the destruction we have witnessed. Across Los Angeles we are mourning the victims of these devastating wildfires and only beginning to comprehend the effects of this tragedy.
This week, I have spoken with friends and neighbors in Eagle Rock who have had this fire uproot their lives, and I have been grateful for the neighbors who have formed a network to share information about power outages, street access, and air quality. Besides the air and the power outage, the largest impact at our house was several large tree branches downed by the winds. We could not have moved them to clear the sidewalk without the generous help of our neighbors.
All across the city, I am thankful for the first responders who continue to work to keep these fires at bay, for all of those who have provided temporary shelter for those in need, for all those that have volunteered to help at donation sites and emergency shelters, and for all of those that have stepped up to provide support through sites like GoFundMe to the many families who have lost their homes. These wildfires bring with them immense grief and sadness that will be lasting. Our community and responsibility to one another are one of our strongest tools for recovery.
The TERA Board had a retreat scheduled for January 11 to work on our strategic planning for the next year of advocacy. For obvious reasons, we were forced to postpone, but we have set a new meeting for March and will be hard at work over the next months advocating for Eagle Rock and learning how to navigate challenges in this changed city.
In the broader view, I am concerned for our shared future: a world in which the effects of our climate crisis are so plainly seen, where national politicians treat tragedies like this as a game, and where our already broken housing market is further strained. But for now, I am thankful and optimistic in having seen the strength of our community showing up for one another in the face of this disaster. Together, we will welcome in neighbors who have lost their homes, and we will work together to build a more resilient and vibrant community for ourselves and for generations to come. In us, I find hope.
Wishing you and your loved ones a healthy and safe recovery,
TERA would like to extend a warm welcome to Los Angeles City Council District 14’s newly elected councilwoman Ysabel Jurado, a native Angeleno from Highland Park. As a single mom and daughter of undocumented Filipino immigrants, Councilmember-elect Jurado attended Pasadena City College and put herself through her undergraduate degree at UCLA, where she went on to UCLA School of Law to become a tenants rights attorney and housing rights activist. We look forward to working with Jurado’s office on efforts in Eagle Rock and throughout District 14. Congratulations on your election Ysabel!
With election day just two weeks away, there are many measures and candidates to read up on. At TERA, we see two LA City Charter amendment measures (DD and LL) as particularly important for our city and are extending our endorsement here.
In the aftermath of scandals connected to LA’s 2021 redistricting process, two LA City Charter amendments propose to add independent redistricting commissions for Los Angeles City Council Districts (Measure DD) and LAUSD School Board Districts (Measure LL). These measures would make our local redistricting processes similar to existing state-level districts in California, which are already overseen by a politically independent redistricting commission.
TERA participated in the 2021 redistricting process, advocating to keep Eagle Rock whole and connected to Northeast LA communities that Eagle Rock has historically shared representation with. It was clear that the process was inherently politicized by the nature of redistricting commissioners being appointed by the elected offices. Measures DD and LL are an important step to restoring residents’ faith in the local redistricting process – and to making districts more equitable moving forward.
Independently appointed commissions would shield the redistricting process from political power grabs and require redistricting maps to meet specific standards of fairness in their inclusion of geographic communities within the same district. These districts would be created through an open community process, without the influence of local elected officials operating behind closed doors.
These two measures are the first much-needed step to bring equity to our local political representation. TERA strongly endorses Measures DD and LL, and encourages Eagle Rockers to vote YES on each measure.
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