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SPECIAL HOURS:

  • Thursday, May 2, Pacific Park will be CLOSED to the public at 4 PM.
  • Thursday, May 9, Pacific Park will be CLOSED to the public at 3:30 PM.
  • Wednesday, May 15, Pacific Park will be CLOSED to the public at 4 PM.
  • Thursday, May 19, Pacific Park will be CLOSED to the public at 6 PM.
  • Thursday, May 23, Pacific Park will be CLOSED to the public at 6 PM.
  • Friday, July 12, Pacific Park will be CLOSED to the public ALL DAY.

🕐 For a full schedule of hours, please check our operating calendar before planning your visit.

Santa Monica Pier’s Pacific Wheel Lights Up for Thanksgiving

Turkey Icon on the Pacific Wheel
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Pacific Park to Display 90-Foot Tall Turkey on Its Ferris Wheel For Thanksgiving If you visit the beach in Santa Monica during Thanksgiving week, you’ll be astonished to see a very tall turkey spinning across the 90ft face of the Pacific Wheel. The Ferris wheel’s 174K LEDs will be all dressed up for Thanksgiving with a giant turkey, a brown, [...] Read More

Ice Skate in Downtown Santa Monica at Ice Santa Monica

Ice skate at Ice at Santa Monica
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You don't have to leave the beach in sunny Santa Monica to ice skate outside thanks to Ice at Santa Monica.   Ice at Santa Monica will return to Downtown Santa Monica with an 8,000 square-foot ice-skating rink on the corner of Fifth Street and Arizona Avenue.   Since 2006, every holiday season our local beach-side community has been transformed [...] Read More

Pacific Park in the News – October 2019

Pacific Wheel at Night
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Pacific Park is regularly featured in news articles, vlogs, and the media. Below are our picks for the top news and blogs mentioning Pacific Park and the Santa Monica Pier for October, 2019. Fodor's Travel 13 Famous Movie Landmarks You Can See in L.A. “Anyone who has seen postcards of Los Angeles will instantly recognize the Santa Monica Pier for [...] Read More

Santa Monica Pier’s Pacific Wheel Lights Up for Veteran’s Day

Pacific Wheel lights up in red, white, and blue
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Pacific Park To Display Red, White, and Blue on Its Ferris Wheel For Veterans Day   If you visit the beach in Santa Monica this weekend, you will be treated to a special red, white, and blue light show on the Pacific Wheel in honor of Veterans Day and all that have served our country. The Ferris wheel’s 174K LEDs [...] Read More

Event Marketer’s Marketing Resource Directory Lists Pacific Park as Unique Outdoor Venue

Pacific Park Event Space on the Santa Monica Pier
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Event Marketer magazine was founded in 2002 to serve the information needs of strategic brand-side event marketers and agency executives across the spectrum of face-to-face marketing—including sponsorship activation, mobile marketing, retailtainment, stunts, buzz marketing, PR campaigns, press events, trade shows, corporate events, proprietary events and meetings. It has become the world’s most respected provider of content for the event and [...] Read More

The American Film Market Returns to Santa Monica

Movies filmed on the Santa Monica Pier
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What is the American Film Market? The annual American Film Market (AFM) is coming back to Santa Monica November 6-13, 2019. The AFM is a film acquisition, development, and networking event with 7,000 industry professionals from more than 70 countries. Each year at AFM over $1 billion in deals are made on films in various stages of production. In addition [...] Read More

Santa Monica Top Events in 2019

Stranger Things Fun Fair at Pacific Park Santa Monica Pier
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Netflix, Nike and Fandango threw the best events, parties, and activations at Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier.   2019 was a busy year in Santa Monica. The Pier once again saw a record number of visitors with some estimates exceeding 10 million people who walked the 110 year-old board walk over the Pacific. As the number of visitors [...] Read More

Santa Monica Pier’s Pacific Wheel Lights Up for Halloween

Ghost on the Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel
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Pacific Park To Display 90-Foot Tall, High-Flying Ghoulish Ghost On Its Ferris Wheel For Halloween If you visit the beach in Santa Monica this Halloween you might see a spooky ghost fly across the 90ft face of the Pacific Wheel. The Ferris wheel’s 174K LEDs will be all dressed up for Halloween; the Pacific Wheel may appear as an orange [...] Read More

UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital hosts 20th Annual Party on the Pier at Pacific Park

UCLA Mattel's 20th Annual Party on the Pier
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Head down to the Santa Monica Pier on Sunday, November 3rd for the 20th annual Mattel Party on the Pier! Each year this fundraising event works to raise funding for the programs that benefit children who are being treated at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, and more around the world. UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital cares for children from newborns to young [...] Read More

Celebrate Dia de los Muertos on the Santa Monica Pier

Dia de los Muertos Celebration at Mariasol
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If you’re looking for a way to celebrate Dia de los Muertos in the Los Angeles area, Mariasol is offering free face painting for the occasion! Each year Mariasol, one of the restaurants on the Santa Monica Pier, celebrates this day rooted in Mexican culture. Dia de los Muertos (“Day of the Dead”) is a holiday celebrated throughout Mexico that [...] Read More