phase 1: west silver lake drive path & armstrong ave path
               — completed

The photos above depict the conditions on Armstrong Avenue before the construction in 2004 (on left), and after construction was completed in 2005 (on right). Click on the items to view the larger images.

Feedback provided at Master Plan community workshops in 1999 and 2000 and CSSLR's community meeting in 2003 showed that Silver Lake's top priority was the completion of a safer pedestrian path around the reservoirs.

In Phase 1 of the Master Plan, completed in October of 2005, the new pedestrian path on West Silver Lake Drive was constructed, along with a concrete path along the steeper section at Armstrong Avenue.

The new path on West Silver Lake Drive is 12 feet wide, of decomposed granite atop a new raised curb.  A new vinyl-coated fence was installed and trees were planted.

Armstrong's new path was constructed atop the bedrock outcropping that hugged the side of the roadway. The ancient bedrock had prohibited any sidewalk along Armstrong since the avenue was first built, forcing pedestrians to walk in the street along a dangerous stretch of the road, hidden from oncoming traffic by the crest of the hill. The DWP replaced their fence 40 feet into the reservoir property, allowing for the first time in over 50 years, public access to the grounds! The new path meanders through a grove of mature trees and the newly landscape hillside.   Of concrete rather than decomposed granite due to the slope of the hill, the path will connect to the Silver Lake Boulevard Path when Phase 2 is completed in 2007.