The Ultimate LA Tour for Outsiders

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Ventura CountyOjai


Ojai music festival


Thousand Oaks
Chumash Interpretive Center




Camarillo outlets


Ventura
1. Mission Buena Ventura


2. Albinger Archeological Museum


3. Ventura Harbor

4. Headquarters Channel Islands National Park and Visitor Center


5. Ventura Pier


Oxnard
1. Maritime Museum


2. Carnegie Art Museum

3. Port Huaneme

4. Seebee Museum

5. Strawberry Festival

6. Channel Islands harbor

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Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley
1. Rose bowl

2. Rose Parade


3. Norton Simon Museum


4. Old Town Pasadena



5. Pasadena Playhouse

6. Kidspace Museum


7. Jet Propulsion LAb, Pasadena

8. Descanso Gardens


9. Wisteria Festival/historic Sierra Madre, world's largest wisteria vine

10. HUntington Library and Gardens





11. Santa Anita


12. Explore South Pasadena, Meridian Iron Works

13. San Gabriel Mission

14. Chinese restaurants/San Gabriel, Alhambra, Monterey Park

15. Raging Waters

16. Mount Wilson Observatory


17. Mount Baldy Ski Area

18. LA County Fair Pomona/biggest county fair in the US.



19. Ceramic MUseum Pomona

20. California Motor Speedway, Fontana

21. Commerce Casino

22. Ontario Mills outlet mall

23. Alf Museum of Palentology, Claremont


24. Pacific Asia Museum


25. Military Museum El Monte

26. Los Angeles County Arboretum, Arcadia

27. Bunny Museum, Pasadena


28. NHRA Museum, Pomona

29. Kellog Arabian Horse Center, Pomona

30. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens, Claremont


31. Doughnut hole LA Puente

32. Hsi Lai Temple Hacienda heights

33. Gamble House, Pasadena

34. Rose Bowl Floats Assembly Barns

35. Feynes MAnsion/Pasadena Historical society

36. Speed zone, City of Industry


37. LAtino Art Museum, Pomona

38. Vincent Price Art Museum East Los Angeles City College

39. Pasadena Museum of California Art


40. Renaissance Pleasure Faire, Irwindale

41. Do Dah Parade, Pasadena

42. Workman and Temple Family Homestead

43. Justice Brothers Racing Museum, Duarte

44. RAmona Museum of California History

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Orange County






1. Disneyland resort including Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, and Downtown Disney.






2. Knott's Berry Farm


3. Knott's Soak City

4. Richard Nixon presidential Library


5. Little Saigon westminster



6. Crystal Cathedral and Glory of Christmas Pagent



7. Medieval Times

8. Surf the Wedge, Newport Beach

9. Shop South coast Plaza


10. Irvine Museum of California Impressionist art

11. The Cube Children's Science Museum, Santa Ana.

12. Bowers Museum Santa Ana


13. Santa Ana Zoo, small but cute and loaded with monkeys

14. Surfing Museum Huntington Beach

15. Pagent of the Masters, Laguna Beach

16. Sawdust Festival and Laguna Arts Festival


17. Orange County center for the Performing Arts


18. Adventure City

19. La Habra Children's Museum


20. Pirates Dinner AdventureBuena Park

21. Mission San Juan Capistrano

22. Los Rios Historic District San Juan Capistrano


23. Block at Orange


24. Old Town Orange for antiques and collectables

25. Irvine Spectrum


26. Anaheim Angel Stadium

27. The Grove at Anaheim

28. Honda arena once known as "The Pond"


29. South Coast Repertory Theater Company

30. Newport Beach Ferry

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Inland Empire

Riverside
1. Mission Inn

2. Riverside Museum of Photography


3. Benedict castle

4. California citrus state park

5.March field air museum

6.Castle Amusement PArk

7. Mount Rubidoux


Perris
1. Lake Perris

2. Orange Empire Railway Museum


Chino
Planes of Fame


Redlands
1. Lincoln Shrine


2. Pharaoh's Lost Kingdom


3. Historic Glass Museum

4. San Bernardino County Museum


5. Morey Mansion


Corona
Glen Ivy Hot Springs



Rialto
Wigwam motel


Hemet
1. Ramona Pageant

2. Metropolitan Water District Museum

Rancho Cucamonga
1. Filippi Winery tour

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Arrowhead and Big Bear

Lake Arrowhead



Big Bear
1. Big Bear Lake



2. Discovery (Nature) Center

3. Bear Mountain skiing

4. Moonridge Zoo

5. Snow summit skiing

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Coachella valley

Cabazon
1. Cabazon Dinosaurs

2. Cabazon Outlets


Joshua Tree National Park


Palm Springs
1. Palm Springs Aerial Tram

2. Palm Springs Museum of Art

3. Palm Springs Casinos

4. Palm Springs Follies

5. Palm Springs area Golf courses

6. Indian canyons and springs

7. Air museum

8. Living Desert



Indio
1. Date Festival

2. Camel and Ostrich racing


3. Salton Sea


Rancho Mirage
Wild bighorn sheep


Pioneertown

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Barstow area

Calico
1.Ghost Town

2. Calico Archeological site


Barstow
Route 66 Museum/Harvey House




Newberry springs
Bagdad cafe

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Bakersfield and lower Kern County


1. Buck Owens' Crystal Palace



2. The big Shoe

3. Basque Dining and culture

4. Kern County Museum



5. Porterville/ Lake Isabella

Huge farmer statue Porterville

paul bunyan and babe statues porterville

6. Taft; West Kern Oil Museum

7. Giant Sequoia National Monument


8. Rabobank Arena Bakersfield


9. Bakersfield Museum of Art


10. California Living Museum




White water rafting on Kern River

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Santa Barbara County

1. Stearns Wharf



2. Whale Watching Santa Barbara Channel



3. Santa Barbara Mission


4. Santa Barbara Museum of art



5. Santa Barbara Natural History Museum



6. Mission gardens

7. Santa Barbara Zoo



8. Santa Barbara Courthouse

9. El Presidio



10. Santa Barbara Historical Society

11. Casa de la Guerra


Solvang




Santa Barbara County Wineries





Cold springs tavern


Santa Inez
1. Santa Inez Mission


Lompoc
1. Murals



2. Flower fields

3. La Purissima Mission state park





Lake Cachuma


Reagan Ranch



Carpenteria
Orchid Farms


Santa Maria Barbeque

[duma187]

post #34 is not the LA Coliseum. that is a picture of the Rose Bowl.

[phattonez]

Originally Posted by duma187

post #34 is not the LA Coliseum. that is a picture of the Rose Bowl.

No, that's the Coliseum. It says it in the picture!

[TooFar]

This is great SVS. I love LA!

<- Oh post 300, how appropriate.

[svs]

Originally Posted by duma187

post #34 is not the LA Coliseum. that is a picture of the Rose Bowl.

My bad; just posting too fast. I fixed it. Thanks for pointing it out. But tell me, did you find anything new that you didn't know existed in the area that you would like to explore?

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North San Diego County

Escondido
1. Queen Calafia's Magic circle



2. California Center for the Arts




3. Escondido History Center


Temecula
1. Ballon Rides

2. Vineyards



3. Antiques

4. Old Town



5. Temecula VAlley Museum


Anza Borrego State Park





Pala Mesa Resort


Mount Palomar


Pecahanga Resort



Oceanside
1. Mission San Luis Rey


2. California surf Museum



Carlsbad
1. Legoland




2. Flower fields


3. Museum of making music



San Diego Wild Animal Park

[svs]

Well that's about it for the first round of the ultimate tour of the Los Angeles Area. As you can see, it is pretty hard to run out of things to do round here. Anyone want to add to the list? I tried to make it as complete as possible but there are always things to discover.

[future_trance011]

SVS...Thanks for putting so much hard work into compiling such a comprehensive list. I can tell by your dedication that you really love and care ALOT about this city. Everytime I look at your lists I still feel like a tourist myself. It's kind of embarassing for me to think that there are still so many places that I haven't even traversed in this city. It's kind of mind-boggling how huge this city is when you think about it. I know I will definitely be directing my friends and relatives from out-of-town to check this out. No longer, will I have to be their personal tour-guide..LOL cheers!

[svs]

Originally Posted by future_trance011

SVS...Thanks for putting so much hard work into compiling such a comprehensive list. I can tell by your dedication that you really love and care ALOT about this city. Everytime I look at your lists I still feel like a tourist myself. It's kind of embarassing for me to think that there are still so many places that I haven't even traversed in this city. It's kind of mind-boggling how huge this city is when you think about it. I know I will definitely be directing my friends and relatives from out-of-town to check this out. No longer, will I have to be their personal tour-guide..LOL cheers!

Thanks for the kind words.

[CITYofDREAMS]

svs... This is truly amazing!! I finally took the time and I'm really impressed, shame on me for not doing it before. I can't wait for the next round. This has helped me to appreciate more the place I call home. Thank you.

[From Milano]

Thanx so much, SVS. I am italian (I come from Milan) and I'm going to visit California and Los Angeles this summer for my honeymoon with my wife.

Can't wait to be there to see all the beautiful things you showed in this thread (well...just a small part of them, I'm spending 5 days in LA...). People from my travel agency advised me to spend less time in LA and more in San Francisco but I choose the opposite :-) I'm sure that LA will impress and captivate me the most!

Thanx again for such a great work in describing your city through the pics!

[svs]

Originally Posted by From Milano

Thanx so much, SVS. I am italian (I come from Milan) and I'm going to visit California and Los Angeles this summer for my honeymoon with my wife.

Can't wait to be there to see all the beautiful things you showed in this thread (well...just a small part of them, I'm spending 5 days in LA...). People from my travel agency advised me to spend less time in LA and more in San Francisco but I choose the opposite :-) I'm sure that LA will impress and captivate me the most!

Thanx again for such a great work in describing your city through the pics!

Molto gratzie; I hope you enjoy southern California as much as I have enjoyed my trips to Italy, one of my favorite countries. San Francisco is much easier to tour than Los Angeles especially if you have only a short time to visit, but I believe there is more to do and see in Southern California. Driving may be difficult for some but its a lot easier than driving in Napoli.