Downtown LA
Tile, marble, and sky — the city's old heart, walked or scootered.
- Distance
- ~2.5 miles
- Time
- 3 hours
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Best by
- Foot or scooter
- Stops
- 9
- Walk total
- 2.8 mi · ~60 min
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- 01
The Last Bookstore
"Begin at 453 S Spring Street, inside the old Crocker Bank. Find the second-floor 'book tunnel' — count the arches you pass through."
34.04790, -118.24970Pin on map - 320 m · ~4 min · head NNE from stop 102
Grand Central Market
"Walk three blocks to 317 S Broadway. Enter under the long neon sign and find the original 1917 'Coca-Cola' painted ghost sign on the interior wall."
34.05070, -118.24870Pin on map - 70 m · ~1 min · head E from stop 203
Bradbury Building
"Cross Broadway to 304 S Broadway. Step into the lobby (free, ground floor and first landing only). Look up — count the open-cage elevators."
34.05060, -118.24790Pin on map - 220 m · ~3 min · head WNW from stop 304
Angels Flight Railway
"Walk one block to the foot of the orange railway at 351 S Hill Street. Find the carved name above the lower archway — what are the two cars called?"
34.05110, -118.25020Pin on map - 470 m · ~6 min · head N from stop 405
Walt Disney Concert Hall
"From the top of Angels Flight, walk north up Grand Avenue to 111 S Grand. Find the rooftop public garden — the 'Blue Ribbon Garden' — and the Lillian Disney Memorial Fountain shaped like a giant rose."
34.05530, -118.24980Pin on map - 110 m · ~1 min · head SSW from stop 506
The Broad
"Next door at 221 S Grand, find the white honeycomb-screen building. Count how many oval 'eye' openings are cut into its veil on the Grand Ave side."
34.05440, -118.25030Pin on map - 990 m · ~13 min · head SW from stop 607
Spire 73 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown
"Scoot west to 900 Wilshire Boulevard, the Wilshire Grand Center — the tallest building west of the Mississippi. Take the dedicated 'Sky Lobby' elevator from the 70th floor up to the rooftop bar. Look out — name the freeway interchange directly south."
34.04890, -118.25880Pin on map - 1.3 mi · ~29 min · head ENE from stop 708
Olvera Street (El Pueblo de Los Angeles)
"Head northeast to the brick-paved alley off N Main Street. Find the giant cross at the south end and the Avila Adobe at the middle of the block. Read the year carved on the Avila Adobe plaque."
34.05710, -118.23780Pin on map - 160 m · ~2 min · head SE from stop 809
Union Station (End of the Hunt)
"Cross Alameda Street to 800 N Alameda. Walk into the main waiting room — find the 3,000-pound brass chandeliers and the long leather-and-walnut benches. You finished where every train into LA still arrives."
34.05610, -118.23650Pin on map