Los Angeles travel guides & articles
All 19 in-depth pieces we’ve published on Los Angeles — newest first.
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Watching Los Angeles Light Up From Griffith Observatory
A free dome, a $10 planetarium, a 50-minute climb through a fern garden and dinner five minutes downhill: how to build a whole Los Angeles day around one hilltop.
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Walking Beverly Hills film sets in Los Angeles
Free streets, pink stucco, and a Tudor mansion on timed tickets: what a morning in the most-filmed corner of Los Angeles costs, and what you have to book first.
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Griffith Park Past the Hollywood Sign Photo in Los Angeles
Free telescopes on a copper-domed terrace, a fenced Batcave, a volunteer garden you can reach only on foot, and the steam locomotives on Zoo Drive: one full day covers all four.
Planning a First Los Angeles Trip Around the Traffic
Group the days by area, ride the lines that already go where you are going, and most of a first trip to Los Angeles works without a car.
Los Angeles Holiday Lights 2026: Zoo Lights, Descanso and the Best Night Walks
Fifteen light walks, free streets and waterfront parades in Los Angeles this season. The dates, prices and booking rules below decide which night you pick.
The Hills Are Alive: Hiking Los Angeles, from Griffith to the Backbone Trail
An honest, closure-checked 2026 guide to the trails Angelenos actually walk — from a 7am canyon above Hollywood to a 67-mile mountain spine and the waterfalls that only run after rain.
The Aerial City: Seeing Los Angeles from Above
Helicopters, biplanes, silent paragliders, and two free hilltop terraces — a clear-eyed guide to every honest way of seeing Los Angeles from the air in 2026.
Giants Off the Coast: A Local's Guide to Whale Watching in Los Angeles
Where to sail from, which boat suits your group, and how to time a whale-watching trip along the Los Angeles coast in 2026 — from budget Long Beach catamarans to a full day among the giants.
The best horseback riding tours with Hollywood views in Los Angeles
Ten working stables, honestly graded — which trails actually reach the sign, which suit groups over couples, and what a saddle costs in 2026.
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art: Tickets, Hours and How to Plan a Visit to LA's New Museum
A timed ticket is the only way into LA's newest museum, and the weekend slots go first. Book one, then give the rest of the day to Exposition Park.
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How Venice Beach Fits Into a Full-Day Los Angeles Tour
The boardwalk runs two miles and costs nothing. Here are the five stops worth your ninety minutes, and what a guided full-day loop actually buys you once you can walk it yourself.
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A Full Day on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles
The stars are free and never close, so the day has to be built out of the buildings on either side of them.
No Tablecloths: The Nightlong Pilgrimage of Los Angeles Tacos
A calm, honest route through Los Angeles taco culture — from a Michelin-listed shrimp truck to a two-in-the-morning trompo of al pastor — with clear advice on what to order and who each stop suits.
The Concrete River: Walking the Los Angeles River from Frogtown to the Arts District
A river Hollywood declared dead runs quietly back to life between Frogtown's cafés and the Arts District's galleries — here's how to walk it in 2026.
The Lowrider Scene as a Rolling Cultural Archive
In Los Angeles, lowrider culture lives across a museum exhibit, a passenger seat, and two very different boulevards - here's how to see all of it without disrespecting any of it.
Walking the Los Angeles Backlots After the Crews Wrap
The lots that actually run after dark, the prop vaults you have to phone first, and the Burbank rooms where the crews land at wrap. A night-shift plan for film-obsessed Los Angeles.
The Neon That Los Angeles Refused to Turn Off
A night-by-night route through the surviving hand-bent tubing of Los Angeles, from a landmarked Hollywood speakeasy to a diner sign with a lease that runs out this December.
Two Nights of Los Angeles Music, Jazz to Arena Pop
From a free Echo Park residency to a K-pop finale at Crypto.com Arena, here is exactly what plays across Los Angeles on August 17 and 18, 2026.
Which Anaheim shuttle you can actually board after ART
ART is gone. Six separate shuttle systems replaced it, each with its own rule about who is allowed on, so work out which bus is yours before you book the room.