Downtown LA

Downtown LA stacks a century of ambition into roughly a square mile: Beaux-Arts banks turned bookstores, a 1893 cable railway still climbing Bunker Hill, a Frank Gehry concert hall, and the tallest open-air bar in the Western Hemisphere. The Historic Core to Bunker Hill loop is flat enough to walk and scooter-perfect — Metro Bikes and Lime/Bird stations are scattered every few blocks. This hunt threads nine stops from Spring Street up to a 73rd-floor view, then over to Olvera Street where the city began.