You may have visited the beaches in LA and taken a photo for Instagram only to be faced with a long list of possible locations with which to tag your posts: Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica State Beach, Venice Beach, Venice Beach Boardwalk – the list goes on and on. You can explore Venice beach to learn more about the […]
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The holiday season is just around the corner, which means that shopping season has already begun. While online sales have continued to rise, in-store shopping is still where the real deals are. Santa Monica offers some of the best shopping in the country, with the 3rd Street Promenade at the center of the action. People flock from all over Los […]
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For the last several years, Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier has programmed its state-of-the-art lighting package on the Ferris wheel with a brilliant 60-second count down to the New Year. The entire Ferris wheel becomes one giant clock with numerals counting down 130 feet above the Pacific. The lights of the Ferris wheel can be seen nearly a […]
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For runners in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is the ideal location to put some miles in. The City offers no shortage of options for people who want to get out and run – parks, beaches, stairs and hiking trails all offer different terrains and difficulty levels to get you sweating. With city sidewalks and safe crosswalks, you can run almost […]
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Getting back to SoCal from a trip is a great feeling for most travelers. Whether you’ve been in Vegas for the weekend, New York for the week, or abroad for a month, the comforts of home are always a welcome sight for Southern Californians. Whether you live near the mountains, in a downtown loft or a beach community, SoCal offers […]
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While being known for moderate temperatures year-round, Southern California can still get pretty cold during the “winter” months, with lows in the 30’s and 40’s many nights between December and March. Colder weather brings out the heavy coats, hats, gloves and long pants for a few months each year, but doesn’t typically slow Southern Californian’s down from getting out and […]
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If you’ve been to Santa Monica recently, you have seen dozens of people zooming along the streets riding small electric scooters. These two-wheeled, rentable transportation devices have become extremely popular in a very short period of time, with estimates of over 2,000 already being on the streets. With enthusiasm being seen from both locals and tourists, the City anticipates dock-less […]
Read More Tourists from all over the world travel to Santa Monica to take in the sights of the city, beaches and the ocean. Adults and kids alike are drawn to the waterfront, and most are eager to take their first dip in the great Pacific. Most are so eager that they don’t even check the temperature of the water before taking […]
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The landmark Santa Monica Pier debuted on September 9, 1909, and Pacific Park opened on May 26, 1996, becoming the first amusement park on the Pier since 1930. Together, they now welcome more than 8 million visitors each year. The world-famous Pacific Wheel Ferris wheel has been featured in more than a thousand movies, television shows and commercials, music videos, […]
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Anyone who lives in Los Angeles knows that this city has more transplants than most other places. People move from all over the world to live in sunny LA, and in many cases – their friends and family want to visit before they’re fully settled in. It can be tough to show out-of-towners visiting you in Los Angeles everything because […]
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