West Adams, Los Angeles
West Adams is a neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California.
West Adams is a neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California. The neighborhood is known for its large number of historic buildings, structures, notable houses, and mansions. It contains several Historic Preservation Overlay Zones as well as designated historic districts.
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Worth seeing in and around West Adams, Los Angeles
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.
- 01University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in California and has an enrollment of more than 47,000 students.
1.9 km · private university in Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia - 02Crypto.com Arena
Crypto.com Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Los Angeles. Opened on October 17, 1999, as Staples Center, it is located next to the Los Angeles Convention Center along Figueroa Street, and has since been considered a part of L.A. Live.
3.3 km · multi-purpose arena in Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia - 03Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is a multi-purpose stadium in the Exposition Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. The Coliseum was commissioned in 1921 and completed in 1923 as a memorial to Los Angeles veterans of World War I. The stadium currently serves as the home of the University of Southern California Trojans football team, and is located directly adjacent to the school's main University Park campus.
2.4 km · stadium in Los Angeles, California, USA · Wikipedia - 04Songwriters Hall of Fame
The Songwriters Hall of Fame is an American institution founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer, music publisher/songwriter Abe Olman, and publisher/executive Howie Richmond to honor those whose work preserves and advances the heritage of English-language popular music. In addition to celebrating renowned songwriters, the organization supports the development of new songwriting talent through workshops, showcases, and scholarships.
3.6 km · hall of fame for songwriters · Wikipedia - 05BMO Stadium
BMO Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium in the Exposition Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is the home of Major League Soccer's Los Angeles FC and the National Women's Soccer League's Angel City FC. Opened on April 18, 2018, it was the first open-air stadium built in the city of Los Angeles since Dodger Stadium in 1962.
2.6 km · soccer stadium in Los Angeles, California, USA · Wikipedia - 06Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in the southern part of California in the United States, The archdiocese contains the counties of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ventura. The cathedral is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, and its present archbishop is José Horacio Gómez Velasco.
3.2 km · archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia - 07Q7048038
The Peacock Theater, formerly Nokia Theatre and Microsoft Theater, is a music and theater venue at L.A. Live in the downtown core of Los Angeles, California, United States. The theater auditorium seats 7,100 and holds one of the largest indoor stages in the United States; it is best known for hosting various award shows and other special events.
3.3 km · music and theatre venue in downtown Los Angeles, California at L.A. Live · Wikipedia - 08Galen Center
The Galen Center is a multipurpose indoor arena and athletic facility owned and operated by the University of Southern California. Located at the southeast corner of Jefferson Boulevard and Figueroa Street in the Exposition Park area of Los Angeles, California, United States, it is right across the street from the campus and near the Shrine Auditorium.
2.3 km · Multi-purpose indoor arena in Los Angeles, California, U.S. · Wikipedia - 09Grammy Museum
The Grammy Museum is an interactive, educational museum devoted to the history and winners of the Grammy Awards. The museum has interactive touch-screens, videos, recording booths, and a collection of historical music artifacts including costumes and instruments from the Grammy Awards, hand-written lyrics, records, and audio/video recordings.
3.6 km · music museum in Los Angeles, United States · Wikipedia - 10MacArthur Park
MacArthur Park is a park dating back to the late 19th century in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. In the early 1940s, it was renamed after General Douglas MacArthur, and later designated City of Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument #100.
3.6 km · Park in Los Angeles, California · Wikipedia
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Getting to West Adams, Los Angeles
- Airports
- Los Angeles (LAX), 14 km · Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), 20 km · Long Beach (LGB), 28 km
- Stations
- Wilshire/Normandie, 3.2 km · Westlake/MacArthur Park, 3.5 km · Expo/Crenshaw, 3.3 km · Jefferson/USC, 2.4 km · Wilshire/Vermont, 3.4 km
- Santa Ana → West Adams, Los Angeles3654 km · quickest by air, 13h 6m · $790–1,190
- Ontario → West Adams, Los Angeles65 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · $6–8
- San Bernardino → West Adams, Los Angeles98 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · $9–12
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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 West Adams, Los Angeles
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 West Adams, Los Angeles. 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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West Adams, Los Angeles is 6 km from Los Angeles, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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