Los Angeles
Transportation
Twenty-eight by '28 initiative: transportation infrastructure projects before the start of the 2028 Summer Olympics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-eight_by_%2728
Metro Rail
Official website: https://www.metro.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Metro_Rail
- Crenshaw/LAX Line opens in Summer 2022
- LAX people mover: 2023
- extension from Union Station to Arts District https://www.metro.net/projects/arts-dist-6th-station/, close to Greyhound terminal
Commuter Rail
Metrolink:
- 8 Lines, operated by Amtrak, 6 lines end at L.A. Union Station.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrolink_(California)
- Arrow: a 9-mile (14 km) eastward rail extension from San Bernardino to Redlands.
Air
Airports:
- LAX: hub of all big 3 airlines
- SNA: short runway, 1,738 m, no wide-body passenger jetliners. ~10M PAX
- BUR: ~5M PAX
- ONT: ~5M PAX
- LGB: ~3M PAX
Airlines:
- Southwest: the largest in SNA, ONT, BUR, LGB
- Frontier: ONT/BUR; exit LAX
- Avelo: BUR
- jetBlue moved from LGB to LAX
Others
A new Cucamonga Station (opens 2026) for:
- Brightline West: extend Las Vegas to Victorville high-speed rail to the new Rancho Cucamonga station. To Las Vegas in about two hours.
- Omnitrans West Valley Connector BRT
- The Boring Co.: An underground tunnel to and from Ontario International Airport.
Film Studio Tours
- Walt Disney Studios
- https://www.waltdisneystudios.com/
- 500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, CA 91505
- Warner Bros. Studio
- https://www.wbstudiotour.com/
- 3400 Warner Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505
- Universal Studio (Comcast)
- https://www.universalstudioshollywood.com/
- 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608
- Sony Pictures Studio Tour
- https://www.sonypicturesstudiostours.com/
- 10202 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232
- Paramount Pictures (Viacom)
- http://www.paramountstudiotour.com/
- 5515 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038
Read more about the major film studios: link
Others
- Autry National Center.
- Vasques Rocks
- Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Santa Monica
- Griffith Observatory
- UCLA
- Malibu
- Orange County John Wayne Airport: John Wayne Statue
- Orange County walk along Newport Beach & Balboa Island & Crystal Coast
- Long Beach: Queen Mary
- Huntington Beach: surfing
- Malibu beach
- Santa Monica Pier
- Venice Beach
- Laguna Beach
- Newport Beach
- Griffith
Skid Row
Skid Row, a.k.a. Central City East, a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles, with one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the US. If you ride a Greyhound bus to LA and walks from the terminal to downtown, you will walk pass Skid Row.
Santa Monica Mountains
King Gillette Ranch
588-acre, situated in the heart of the Malibu Creek Watershed, adjacent to Malibu Creek State Park, at the lower end of the Las Virgenes Valley, a haven for large mammals; some structures designed for razor magnate King C. Gillette in the 1920's by Wallace Neff, architect of California's Golden Age. Includes Gillette's historic Spanish Colonial Revival style mansion, a long tree-lined allee and grand entry, a large constructed pond, a formal courtyard and terrace, bridges and lawns, a knoll known as Inspiration Point, with 360-degree views, including the famous rock formations of Malibu Creek State Park
Visitor Center: formerly the horse stable; Awarded LEED Platinum cerficiation and is the first "net zero" visitor center in the National Park Service
1-mil round trip hike to Inspiration Point; amazing vista of the surrounding Las Virgenes Valley
Mansion: 25-room mansion built in 1928 as the primary residence of the founder of the Gillette Safety Razor Company. Hollywood movie director Clarence brown purchased the property in 1935 and added a pool, tennis courts and an airplane landing strip. The ranch became public parkland in 2005
Dormitory Building: the Claretian religious order purchased the ranch in 1952 and built the 3-story seminary building, which included a dormitory, classrooms and a chapel in 1955