Altadena Wedding

Altadena is an unincorporated census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California approx. 14 miles from the downtown Los Angeles Civic Center. The population was 42,610 at the 2000 census.

Featuring spectacular views of the San Gabriel Mountains, Altadena was developed as a suburb of Los Angeles in 1887. It has long refused annexation by neighboring Pasadena. Its unincorporated status allowed it to become a major settlement area for working- and middle-class African-Americans during a period in which non-whites were forbidden to live in the vast majority of greater Los Angeles.

The name Altadena derives from the Spanish alta, meaning "upper," and -dena from Pasadena [1]; the area is adjacent to, but at a higher elevation than, Pasadena.

Altadena is an unincorporated community of the Fifth Supervisorial District of Los Angeles County, California. Bordered by the San Gabriel Mountains and the Angeles National Forest to the north, the Arroyo Seco (City of Pasadena) on the west, The City of Pasadena on the South, and Eaton Canyon on the East.