Mount Lee is a peak in the Santa Monica Mountains, located in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California, USA.

The mountain is named after early Los Angeles car dealer and radio station owner Don Lee.

An early reference to this name is in a June 1939 article in a magazine published by the California Chamber of Commerce: "Lee has bought a 20-acre site on a mountain top at the eastern boundary of Griffith Park, widening the transmission field of the Don Lee equipment to take in new thousands of homes in the Hollywood hills and the San Fernando Valley.

According to Wikimapia the immediate seller was not the original development company, but Sennett personally, "who wasn't doing too well in the post-silent Hollywood era and really needed the money."

Paramount had Klaus Landsburg and Anthony had the venerable KFI radio dual chief engineer team of Headly Blatterman and George Mason.

All three recognized that television signals from Mount Lee and similar points were inadequate to reach the greater Los Angeles basin.

Part of Mount Lee was then sold to Howard Hughes, who intended to erect an estate for his then-current love interest, Ginger Rogers.

[citation needed] After utilization during the war by the U.S. Army, the property remained an idle asset for decades, and eventually became part of the Hughes estate.

Mount Lee continues to be the site of various non-commercial radio activities, but television transmissions ceased from that location in October 1951.

[6] Mount Lee's hiking trails and fire roads are part of Griffith Park; as such it's easy to get lost and be redirected.

[7] Wildlife around Mount Lee and the Griffith Park includes coyotes, rattlesnakes, mountain lions, a variety of birds and other species.