Photo by John Schreiber.

An injured hiker was airlifted to a hospital Saturday after he was stricken in a remote location of Griffith Park.

The hiker was located at 10:18 a.m. off near the 2800 block of East Observatory Road, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Nicholas Prange.

The man was safely aboard an LAFD helicopter at 10:55 a.m. and flown to a hospital, Prange said.

The nature and extent of the man’s injuries were not available but he was unable to get himself to the trail or to his vehicle, Prange said.

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