Elysian Heights is located within northern Echo Park, and borders Silver Lake on the northwest, Elysian Valley on the northeast, and Elysian Park on the east. The area is mostly residential, with houses set on the northern hills of Echo Park proper.

A little Elysian Heights history... Before the Glendale Freeway was built, it was also part of the neighborhood known as Edendale. Many architecturally notable and historic homes can be found on the hills of Elysian Heights, such as: the Southhall house, designed by Rudolph Schindler, Philip Dike house, Harwell Hamilton house, Paul Landacre house, Estelle Lawton Lindsey house, Carey McWilliams house, Klock House, Judd-Atwater bungalows and Ross House ``during the 1950s and '60s Al Nozaki lived here, the famed film art director who designed the Martian War Machines for George Pal's The War of the Worlds.``