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Departures Field Guides

Travel as a tourist, get lost in your own hometown. Discover a neighborhood unfamiliar to you or explore a different side to the one you live in. Through Departures Field Guides we provide routes for self-guided walking tours, hiking and biking trails, where to go horse-riding and fishing, museums and historical sites to visit, and where to eat and shop.

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Modernist designer, Gregory Ain, created stylish, mid-century homes that were also cost-efficient in 1947. Now designated as a Historic Overlay Zone, the homes remain well-preserved for you to enjoy today.
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Surf history and waves in Venice Beach, where relics of Abbot Kinney's vision gave way to pioneering dynamics in the sport.
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Venice became home to a burgeoning muralist movement in the 1970s and today is dotted with vibrant murals throughout the neighborhood along the boardwalk.
Walk and eat along the Dominguez Gap, an area in North Long Beach where two side-channel wetlands parallel the Los Angeles River from just upstream of the 405 freeway to upstream of Compton Creek.
This 1.6 mile walk features an excellent soft bottom stretch of river, historic bridges, mini-parks, native plantings, and Brett Goldstone's dramatic Water with Rocks Gate.
Atwater Riverwalk is one of the first and largest pocket parks along the soft-bottom Glendale Narrows. This 1-mile walk features pocket parks with native vegetation and even a unique yoga course, as well as excellent views from bicycle and pedestrian b...
Ernie's Walk is the earliest community effort to revitalize the Los Angeles River. The walk traverses its popular 0.3-mile linear park, which features river rock seating walls, and native and non-native plantings along the concrete river channel.
This 2.1 mile walk is in the upstream end of the Glendale Narrows, a favorite stretch of the L.A. River because it retains a soft, earthen bottom. It is home to birds, trees, turtles, lizards, a great historic bridge, a stretch of the Glendale Narrows ...
This 3.4 mile walk features seven pocket parks, native planting, and scenic soft-bottom river. This is one of the most appealing and natural stretches along the entire river.
This walk through Maywood Riverfront Park features an industrial face of the Los Angeles River. While this walk is not recommended to introduce newcomers to the river, it's important to become familiar with the challenges facing those who would restore...
Natural area behind the Whittier Narrows Dam paints a sharp contrast from the stark concrete channel of the lower Rio Hondo. Soak in a panoramic view of the lower flood plains of the Rio Hondo and San Gabriel River, and a close-up look at the riparian ...
This soft-bottom stretch is popular with walkers, runners, and even dogs and horses. The 2.6 mile walk features the infamous river cats, painted by Leo Limón on storm drain outlets, and views of the downtown skyline.
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