Tours & Excursions
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PO BOX 79172, Los Angeles, CA, 90079
213-999-5067
The Los Angeles Conservancy’s “Last Remaining Seats” series isn’t the only way to support our grand old movie palaces.
Website: http://www.lahtf.org
Neighborhood: Downtown
Category: Tours & Excursions, Travel
Balboa Island Ferry
410 S. Bay Front, Newport Beach, CA, 92662
The trip takes less than five minutes, the boat itself is a handful of planks lashed together, and you could simply use the nearby bridge…
Website: http://www.balboaislandferry.com
Category: Tours & Excursions, Travel
E. Waldo Ward
273 E. Highland Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 91024
800-355-9273
Before all the tract houses, there were oranges, millions of oranges. At the end of the 19th century, the San Gabriel Valley was booming with agriculture…
Website: http://waldoward.com/
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Sierra Madre
Category: Family Fun, Sports & Recreation, Tours & Excursions, Travel
E. Waldo Ward & Son
273 E. Highland Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 91024
626-355-1218
Long before the movie industry defined Los Angeles, oranges were our most famous export…
Website: http://www.waldoward.com/
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Sierra Madre
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Local Attractions, Tours & Excursions, Travel
Ethnic Neighborhoods Food & Culture Tour
On the Ethnic Neighborhoods Food & Culture Tour hosted by Urban Adventures, Summer Davis guides as many as 12 people at a time on a stroll through Koreatown as well as Little Armenia and Thai Town
Website: http://www.urbanadventures.com
Neighborhood: Koreatown
Category: Tours & Excursions, Travel
Fun and Educational Places to Go with Kids and Adults in Southern California
With more than 1,800 things to do and see, Susan Peterson’s Fun and Educational Places to Go with Kids and Adults in Southern California has the competition beat on volume alone…
Website: http://funplaces.com
Category: Baby, Shopping, Tours & Excursions, Travel
Highland Park Heritage Trust Tour
PO Box 50894, Los Angeles, CA, 90050
Meet in Sycamore Grove Park by the Sousa-Hiner Bandshell (where both bandleaders performed) for the Highland Park Heritage Trust Tour.
Website: http://www.hpht.org/tour.html
Neighborhood: Highland Park
Category: Tours & Excursions, Travel
Historic Core tour
523 W. 6th St., Los Angeles, CA, 90014
213-623-2489
For architecture lovers the Los Angeles Conservancy’s “Historic Core tour” is a Saturday must…
Website: http://laconservancy.org/
Neighborhood: Downtown, Los Angeles
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Local Attractions, Tours & Excursions, Travel
Historic Downtown Walking Tour
532 South Olive St., Los Angeles, CA, 90189
Since 1978, the Los Angeles Conservancy has been preserving the city’s history one Walker & Eisen building at a time.The nonprofit offers a slew of excursions, but its Historic Downtown Walking Tour will have you looking at the city’s core in a new way.
Website: http://www.laconservancy.org
Neighborhood: Downtown
Category: Tours & Excursions, Travel
Historic North Hollywood Tour
21031 Ventura Blvd., Suite 419, Los Angeles, CA, 91364
The Museum of the San Fernando Valley is still at the idea stage. For now there’s the Historic North Hollywood Tour.
Website: http://www.themuseumsfv.org
Neighborhood: North Hollywood
Category: Tours & Excursions, Travel
Hollywood Behind-the-Scenes
6708 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90028
Once you get used to wearing a headset for Red Line Tours’ Hollywood Behind-the-Scenes stroll, you’ll appreciate being able to hear your guide above the din of Hollywood Boulevard.
Website: http://www.redlinetours.com
Neighborhood: Hollywood
Category: Tours & Excursions, Travel
Los Angeles Urban Adventures
1896 El Cerrito Place, Los Angeles, CA, 90068
323.300.5370
While our city makes it possible to get tastes of the world, let’s face it: There are some restaurants where a chaperon—or just a translator—would be beneficial.
Website: http://www.losangelesurbanadventures.com
Neighborhood: Koreatown
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2013: Eat, Best of LA: 2013, Best of LA: Eat, Tours & Excursions, Travel
Robinson Helicopter
2901 Airport Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90505
The largest commercial helicopter factory in the world is sandwiched between strip malls along PCH and a tiny municipal airport in Torrance
Website: http://www.robinsonheli.com/
Category: Air Travel, Tours & Excursions, Travel
Tour du Jour
9663 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90210
310-659-2929
The five-year-old company will sweep them away in a Jaguar Vanden Plas, Cadillac Escalade, or perhaps, if they’re the sort who enjoy being more than a little conspicuous, a blindingly white 1992 Cadillac limousine with blue velour interior…
Website: http://tourdujour.net/
Neighborhood: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Local Attractions, Tours & Excursions, Travel
Travel Town Museum
323-662-9678
The free Travel Town Museum lets rail-bound leviathans of yesteryear live out their retirement peacefully in the northern corner of Griffith Park
Website: http://www.traveltown.org/
Neighborhood: Los Feliz
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2014: Do, Best of LA: 2014, Best of LA: Do, Museums, Tours & Excursions
Trekking Los Angeles: Local Adventures in a Global City
4343 Leimart Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90008
Wide swaths of Los Angeles remain a mystery even to seasoned Angelenos
Website: http://lacommons.org/
Neighborhood: Mid-City
Category: Tours & Excursions, Travel
Venice Boulevard
Choose Venice Boulevard, which has a bike lane—an L.A. rarity—that runs from Crenshaw to the coast.
Website: http://www.la-bike.org
Neighborhood: Venice
Category: Fitness & Instruction, Sports & Recreation, Tours & Excursions, Travel
Vintage Venice Reel to Real Tours
1601 Main St, Los Angeles, CA, 90291
Jonathan Kaplan is a one-man multimedia show, playing movie snippets on an iPad at almost every stop on his two-hour Vintage Venice Reel to Real Tours.
Website: http://www.vintagevenicetours.com
Neighborhood: Venice
Category: Tours & Excursions, Travel