Long Beach
Long Beach is a coastal city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States.

Long Beach is a coastal city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is the 44th-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 450,469 as of 2025. A charter city, Long Beach is the 7th-most populous city in California, the 2nd-most populous city in Los Angeles County, and the largest city in California that is not a county seat.
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Worth seeing in and around Long Beach
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.
- 01California State University
The California State University is California's system of public universities. Headquartered in Long Beach, the system includes 22 campuses and seven off-campus centers, and serves more than 460,000 students.
700 m · public university system in California, United States · Wikipedia - 02Vincent Thomas Bridge
The Vincent Thomas Bridge is a 1,500-foot-long suspension bridge, crossing Los Angeles Harbor in Los Angeles, California, linking San Pedro with Terminal Island. It is the only suspension bridge in the Greater Los Angeles area.
7.3 km · bridge in Southern California · Wikipedia - 03California State University, Long Beach
California State University, Long Beach, also known in athletics as Long Beach State University, is a public research university in Long Beach, California, United States. The 322-acre campus is the second largest in the California State University system.
7 km · public university in Long Beach, California, United States · Wikipedia - 04Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center
The Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center is a convention center located in Long Beach, California. Built on the former site of the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, the venue is composed of the Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach Arena, and the Long Beach Performing Arts Center.
900 m · convention center in Long Beach, California, United States · Wikipedia - 05Aquarium of the Pacific
The Aquarium of the Pacific is a public aquarium on a 6-acre site on Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach, California, United States. It is situated across the water from the Long Beach Convention Center, Shoreline Village, and the Queen Mary Hotel and Attraction.
700 m · public aquarium in Long Beach, California · Wikipedia - 06Walter Pyramid
The LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid, formerly known as Walter Pyramid and The Long Beach Pyramid, is a 4,000-seat, pyramid-shaped indoor arena on the campus of California State University, Long Beach in Long Beach, California. It serves as home venue to the University's men's and women's basketball teams and men's and women's volleyball teams.
7.8 km · arena at California State University, Long Beach · Wikipedia - 07Long Beach Polytechnic High School
Long Beach Polytechnic High School, founded in 1895 as Long Beach High School, is a four-year public high school located at 1600 Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach, California, United States. The school serves portions of Long Beach, including Bixby Knolls, and some parts of the cities of Signal Hill and Lakewood.
2.4 km · serving Long Beach, California · Wikipedia - 08Banning House
Banning House, also known as the General Phineas Banning Residence Museum, is a historic Greek Revival-Victorian home in the Wilmington section of Los Angeles, California. Built in 1863 by Phineas Banning near the original San Pedro Bay, it remained in the Banning family until 1925 and has been owned by the City of Los Angeles since 1927.
6.2 km · historic house in Los Angeles, California · Wikipedia - 09Long Beach International Gateway Bridge
The Long Beach International Gateway, originally known as the Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement, is a cable-stayed bridge that carries six lanes of Interstate 710 and a bicycle/pedestrian path in Long Beach, California, west across the Back Channel to Terminal Island. The bridge replaced the Gerald Desmond Bridge, which was completed in 1968 and named after Gerald Desmond, a prominent civic leader and a former city attorney for the City of Long Beach.
2.4 km · cable-stayed bridge in Long Beach, California, United States · Wikipedia - 10Cambodia Town, Long Beach, California
Cambodia Town is the official name for a business corridor along Anaheim Street between Atlantic and Junipero avenues in the Eastside of Long Beach, California. The area has numerous Cambodian restaurants, clothing stores, jewelry stores, and donut shops, as well as churches, Khmer temples, and service centers for Cambodian Americans.
3.4 km · Neighborhood in Long Beach, California, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Long Beach
- Airports
- Long Beach (LGB), 7 km · Los Angeles (LAX), 28 km · John Wayne Orange County (SNA), 32 km
- Stations
- Long Beach Airport, 6.8 km · Port of Los Angeles, 7.5 km · Port of Long Beach, 2.5 km · Anaheim, 1.7 km · Downtown Long Beach, 200 m
- Burbank → Long Beach47 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · $4.5–6
- Ontario → Long Beach60 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · $6–9
- San Bernardino → Long Beach91 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · $9–12
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Long Beach
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 Long Beach. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA ferry to Catalina Island also operates from Long Beach.
- Go nextCatalina Island -Catalina Express, (800) 481-3470 - High-speed boat service Baja California - Carnival Cruise Lines - Long Beach is the home port for the ships "Ecstasy" and "Elation." Carnival built a terminal next to the Queen Mary.
From Wikivoyage: Long Beach, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Long Beach is 27 km from Anaheim, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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