Tarzana (/tɑːrˈzænə/) is a suburban neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California.

Los Angeles Times founder and publisher General Harrison Gray Otis invested in the company and also personally acquired 550 acres (2.2 km2) in the center of modern-day Tarzana.

[2] In February 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the popular Tarzan novels, relocated to California from Oak Park, Illinois.

[3] Burroughs subdivided and sold the land for residential development, some parcels of which were utilized as small farms.

Tarzana, which measures 8.79 square miles (22.8 km2), is bounded on the south by Topanga State Park, on the east by Encino, on the north by Reseda and on the west by Woodland Hills.

Due to its inland location, there is a higher degree of diurnal temperature variation than more coastal areas of Los Angeles.

At the top of the trail hikers and mountain bikers will see signs leading the entrance of Topanga State Park.