Sports & Recreation
Adventure 16
11161 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90064
310-473-4574
Designed like an outsize log cabin, Adventure 16 stocks everything you need when your home away from home has a canvas flap for a door…
Website: http://adventure16.com
Neighborhood: West Los Angeles
Category: Sporting Goods, Sports & Recreation
AK Treadmill Repair Specialists
13428 Maxella Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90292
310-559-7338
Some of us are as dependent on our exercise equipment as we are on our automobiles…
Category: Sporting Goods, Sports & Recreation
Altadena Golf Course
1456 E. Mendocino St., Los Angeles, CA, 91001
626-797-3821
Altadena Golf Course has you teeing off on a putting green of natural grass that’s been recently upgraded along with the café, cocktail lounge, and shop.
Neighborhood: East Pasadena
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2013: Do, Best of LA: 2013, Best of LA: Do, Golf, Sports & Recreation
Anti-Gravity Yoga Wings
8000 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90046
323-654-4550
After adjusting the silk hammocks that hang from the ceiling to the heights of her dozen or so waiting students, Saharah Ali issues a final warning…
Website: http://www.crunch.com
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, West Hollywood
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation, Sports & Recreation Instruction
Arroyo Seco
1055 Lohman Ln., Los Angeles, CA, 91030
323-255-1506
South Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco miniature golf course is not big or elaborate like those theme-parky installations you see from the freeway…
Website: http://www.arroyoseco.com/
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, South Pasadena
Category: Family Fun, Golf, Sports & Recreation
Bailey Canyon Park
451 W. Carter Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 91024
Hollywood’s popular Runyon Canyon offers us panoramas, celebrity sightings, and stargazing, but Bailey Canyon Park in Sierra Madre has our pooches scampering across rivulets…
Website: http://www.sierramadrenews.net/bailey.htm
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Sierra Madre
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Family Fun, Parks & Beaches, Sports & Recreation
Barry’s Bootcamp
1106 N. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90069
310-360-6262
We rocked out with Yoga Shelter’s Eric Paskel (Kristin Cavallari is an acolyte) and explored the stretch band-tastic Tracy Anderson Method (Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow)…
Website: http://barrysbootcamp.com/
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, West Hollywood
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation, Sports & Recreation Instruction
Basics of Mindfulness Meditation
1430 Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90404
310-774-3325
Don’t beat yourself up if your mind starts to wander, Allen Weiss tells students in his Basics of Mindfulness Meditation course at InsightLA. There’s never an intimidating moment during the six weeks of secular-based instruction…
Website: http://www.insightla.org
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation
Beach Yoga with Brad
Marine St., Los Angeles, CA, 90405
310-826-6958
Watching the waves crash during a session of Beach Yoga with Brad, you’ll forget you’re on the busy border between Santa Monica and Venice.
Website: http://www.bradkeimach.com
Neighborhood: Santa Monica
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2012: Do, Best of LA: 2012, Best of LA: Do, Sports & Recreation, Yoga Studio
Beachwood Canyon
Between 2872 and 2882 Belden, Just before 2795 Woodshire, Los Angeles, CA, 90068
Build granitelike glutes and take in the landscape as you hike the public staircases notched into the city’s hillsides.
Website: http://www.secretstairs-la.com
Neighborhood: West Los Angeles
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2012: Do, Best of LA: 2012, Best of LA: Do, Family Fun, Sports & Recreation
Becker
Various locations, Los Angeles, CA, 90254
(310) 372-6554
The Becker empire is shrinking a smidge: The Encinitas store recently closed, and the inventory is on sale at a temporary annex next to the Malibu location…
Website: http://beckersurf.com
Category: Sporting Goods, Sports & Recreation
Belmont Shore
Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90802
When we’re hanging out by the Granada boat launch in Long Beach, they’re tough to miss: People in wet suits being yanked across the water by enormous half-moon kites
Category: Family Fun, Sports & Recreation
Bicycle John’s Serious Cycling
1038 N. Hollywood Way, Los Angeles, CA, 91505
818-848-8330
With its buying power, SuperGo in Santa Monica is the place to get a good deal on a two-wheeler. We’ve fared well at Helen’s Cycles, too…
Website: http://bicyclejohns.com
Neighborhood: Burbank, Los Angeles
Category: Sporting Goods, Sports & Recreation
Bike Improve
10929 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025
310-437-3555
Our bikes wither and die in the garage because we’re too lazy to bring them to a repair shop…
Website: http://www.bike-improve.com/
Neighborhood: Westwood
Category: Sporting Goods, Sports & Recreation
Birding Supplies
4337 Woodman Ave, Sherman Oaks
(818) 995-0022
The emphasis at Wild Wings is to bring the birds to you, though the owners also lead periodic walks to avian-rich locales in Los Angeles County. The Sherman Oaks operation stocks backyard feeders and birdhouses that encompass a wide range of species, from woodpeckers to bluebirds to owls. The seed mixes are blended specifically with […]
Website: http://www.wildwingsla.com/
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2016: Shop, Best of LA: 2016, Best of LA: Shop, Outdoor Furnishings, Outdoor Recreation
Blue Collar Working Dog
1533 Echo Park Ave., Echo Park, CA, 90026
213-977-9042
Blue Collar Working Dog carries all manner of camping and hiking paraphernalia for canines–spot items that ensure pet safety and comfort in the wild
Website: http://www.bluecollarworkingdog.com/
Neighborhood: Echo Park
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2014: Pets, Best of LA 2014: Shop, Best of LA: 2014, Best of LA: Shop, Family Fun, Outdoor Recreation, Pet Stores
BootCamp4Moms
Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90094
310-463-1003
At BootCamp4Moms, Tami Tyson mixes kickboxing with more playful exercises using squishy, half-sphere Bosu balls…
Website: http://bootcamp4moms.com/
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Playa Vista
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation, Sports & Recreation Instruction
Briarwood Park
461 Almaden Ct., Los Angeles, CA, 90077
310-840-2186
The general rule for play dates in the 310 and the 818 is that someone has to schlepp from one side of the hill to the other. If people only knew about Briarwood Park…
Website: http://www.laparks.org/dos/parks/facility/briarwoodPk.htm
Neighborhood: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Family Fun, Parks & Beaches, Sports & Recreation
