Arcadia
Worth seeing in and around Arcadia
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden
The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, 127 acres, is an arboretum, botanical garden, and historical site nestled into hills near the San Gabriel Mountains in Arcadia, California, United States. Open daily, it only closes on Christmas Day.
1.7 km · arboretum, botanical garden, and historical site in Arcadia, California, United States · Wikipedia - 02Sierra Madre Dam
The Sierra Madre Dam is a flood control structure located on Little Santa Anita Creek, at the mouth of Little Santa Anita Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, California. Positioned just south of the Angeles National Forest, the dam serves the community of Sierra Madre and contributes to regional flood mitigation efforts.
4.1 km · dam in California, United States of America, United States of America · Wikipedia - 03Upton Sinclair House
The Upton Sinclair House is an historic house at 464 N. Myrtle Avenue, Monrovia, California. Built in 1923, it was the home of American novelist Upton Sinclair between 1942 and 1966, and is where he wrote many of his later works.
4.1 km · historic house in California, United States · Wikipedia - 04Baldwin Lake
Baldwin Lake is a sag pond in the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, which is in the San Gabriel Valley of Southern California, south of the San Gabriel Mountains. The pond, arboretum, and botanic garden are all within the city of Arcadia.
1.7 km · lake in United States of America · Wikipedia - 05Westfield Santa Anita
The Shops at Santa Anita is a super-regional shopping mall located in Arcadia, California, adjacent to the Santa Anita Race Track.
1.6 km · shopping mall · Wikipedia - 06Reid-Baldwin Adobe
The Reid-Baldwin Adobe, formerly called the Hugo Reid Adobe, is an adobe house built in 1839. It is located at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia, California.
1.6 km · California historic landmark · Wikipedia - 07Old North Church
Old North Church is in Sierra Madre, California and is a historic landmark building built in 1890, one of the oldest churches and buildings in Sierra Madre. The Old North Church is owned by its builder Christ Church Sierra Madre, called First Congregational Church of Sierra Madre at the time of completion.
3.2 km · building in California, United States · Wikipedia - 08Sierra Madre Memorial Park
Sierra Madre Memorial Park is a historic landmark park in Sierra Madre, California. The public park is dedicated to Sierra Madre residents who have served in the U.S. Armed forces.
3.2 km · park in California, United States of America · Wikipedia - 09Episcopal Church of the Ascension
The Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Sierra Madre, California is an historic church that was built in 1888. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
3.3 km · church building in California, United States of America · Wikipedia - 10The Oaks
The Oaks, also known as William N. Monroe House, is a Stick/Eastlake Queen Anne Style house that was built in 1885. It is located in the San Gabriel Valley, in Monrovia, California.
3.6 km · building in California, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Arcadia
- Airports
- Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), 31 km · Long Beach (LGB), 37 km · Los Angeles (LAX), 41 km
- Stations
- Sierra Madre Villa, 4.3 km · San Gabriel Valley Airport, 6 km
- Los Angeles → Arcadia22 km · quickest by road, 37 min · $2–3
- Ontario → Arcadia36 km · quickest by road, 56 min · $3.5–5
- Santa Ana → Arcadia3635 km · quickest by air, 14h 28m · $850–1,260
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Arcadia
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Arcadia. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inPrime Time offers shared-ride vans which serve the Pasadena area from LAX.
- Get inStand under the orange "shared ride vans" sign in the center concrete island outside the airport.
- Get inIt is a large charter-style bus and is occasionally not labeled.
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Next door to Arcadia
Arcadia is 22 km from Los Angeles, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Grizzly Flats RailroadFull-size backyard steam railroad owned by Disney animator Ward Kimball4.3 km
- Hastings Ranch, Pasadena, Californianeighborhood of Pasadena, California4.5 km
- Arcadia Unified School DistrictSchool district in California, United States1.8 km