Monterey Park
Monterey Park is a city in the western San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, approximately seven miles (11 km) east of the Downtown Los Angeles civic center.
Monterey Park is a city in the western San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, approximately seven miles (11 km) east of the Downtown Los Angeles civic center. It is bordered by Alhambra, East Los Angeles, Montebello and Rosemead. The city's motto is "Pride in the past, Faith in the future."
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Worth seeing in and around Monterey Park
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 Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes of technology in the United States that are devoted to the instruction of pure and applied sciences.
10 km · private research university located in Pasadena, California, USA · Wikipedia - 02Dodger Stadium
Dodger Stadium is a ballpark in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball.
10 km · Baseball park in Los Angeles, US · Wikipedia - 03Los Angeles City Hall
Los Angeles City Hall, completed in 1928, is the center of the government of the city of Los Angeles, California, and houses the mayor's office and the meeting chambers and offices of the Los Angeles City Council. It is located in the Civic Center district of downtown Los Angeles in the city block bounded by Main, Temple, First, and Spring streets, which was the heart of the city's central business district during the 1880s and 1890s.
9.9 km · 1928 building housing the government of the city of Los Angeles, California · Wikipedia - 04The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, known as The Huntington, is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Huntington in San Marino, California, United States. In addition to the library, the institution houses an extensive art collection with a focus on 18th and 19th century European art and 17th to mid-20th century American art.
9.1 km · library and art museum in San Marino, California · Wikipedia - 05California State University, Los Angeles
California State University, Los Angeles is a public research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is part of the California State University system.
3.5 km · public university in Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia - 06Southern California Institute of Architecture
The Southern California Institute of Architecture is a private Architecture school in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1972, SCI-Arc was initially regarded as both institutionally and artistically avant-garde.
9 km · Private university in Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia - 07Calvary Cemetery
Calvary Cemetery and Mortuary is a Catholic cemetery and funeral home operated by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in East Los Angeles, California, United States. It is also called New Calvary Cemetery because it succeeded the original Calvary Cemetery, over which Cathedral High School was built.
4.8 km · cemetery in East Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia - 08California's 34th congressional district
California's 34th congressional district is a U.S. congressional district in California. Located in Los Angeles County, the district is represented by Democrat Jimmy Gomez.
9 km · U.S. House district in northern Los Angeles, CA · Wikipedia - 09Japanese American National Museum
The Japanese American National Museum is located in Los Angeles, California, and dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Japanese Americans. Founded in 1992, it is located in the Little Tokyo area near downtown.
9.5 km · museum in Los Angeles, California · Wikipedia - 10Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument
The Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument is a monument in Montebello, California in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, dedicated to the victims of the Armenian genocide of 1915. The monument, opened in April 1968, is a tower of eight arches supported on 75-foot-tall white concrete columns.
2.3 km · Monument in Montebello, California, USA · Wikipedia
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Getting to Monterey Park
- Airports
- Long Beach (LGB), 26 km · Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), 27 km · Los Angeles (LAX), 28 km
- Stations
- Los Angeles Union Station, 9.2 km · Lincoln/Cypress, 8.6 km · Highland Park, 8.7 km · Pico/Aliso, 8.3 km · Soto, 7 km
- Santa Ana → Monterey Park3637 km · quickest by air, 13h 55m · $840–1,250
- Ontario → Monterey Park43 km · quickest by road, 55 min · $4–5
- San Bernardino → Monterey Park77 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · $7–9
- 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 Monterey Park
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 Monterey Park. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAir taxi and air charter companies including Los Angeles Private Jets can access private aircraft at any of L.A.'s private aviation airports, as well as planes in your area for flights to Los Angeles.
- Get inIf you're thinking of using Metrolink to day trip on the weekend, you'll want to get the $10 weekend day pass, which is good for unlimited travel on Metrolink (and connecting transit) on either Saturday or Sunday.
- Get inLong Beach also has party boats for large groups such as the Majorca and Ibizza by OnBoat, https://onboat.co/product/long-beach-yacht-charter-115-feet-party-yacht-majorca/ San Pedro has a cruise ship terminal that all of the major cruise ship lines (except Carnival) sail from.
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Monterey Park is 10 km from Los Angeles, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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