Day Trips® from Los Angeles Getaway Ideas For The Local Traveler

by Kath, Laura; Price, Pamela

• ISBN13: 9780762760794
• ISBN10: 0762760796
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-07
• Publisher: Globe Pequot

Summary

Need a day away to relax, refresh, renew? Just get in your car and go! This first edition of Day Trips from Los Angeles is your guide to hundreds of exciting things to do, see, and discover in your own backyard. With full trip-planning information and tips on where to eat, shop, and stop along the way, you can make the most of your time off and rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip. Explore places you never knew existed, many free of charge, and most within a two-hour drive of Los Angeles.

Author Biography

Pamela Price and Laura Kath, who have more than fifty years combined of travel and life experience in sunny southern California, are the coauthors of Fun With the Family Southern California (GPP Travel). Price is the author of 100 Best Spas of the World. Kath is the author of fifteen nonfiction books. Both Kath and Price live in Southern California.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Using this guide	p. xiii
Tips for your trip	p. xvii
North
Day trip 01
Hooray for h-town	p. 2
Hollywood	p. 2
Day trip 02
Lights, camera, action	p. 11
Burbank	p. 11
Griffith park	p. 16
Day trip 03
Adventures in entertainment	p. 18
Universal city	p. 18
North hollywood	p. 22
Northeast
Day trip 01
Of roses & gardens	p. 26
Pasadena	p. 26
Day trip 02
An alpine paradise with hollywood connections	p. 32
Lake arrowhead	p. 32
Day trip 03
Ski on the rim of the world	p. 38
Big bear lake	p. 38
East
Day trip 01
Get your kicks on route 66	p. 46
San bernadino	p. 46
Rancho cucamonga	p. 49
Riverside	p. 51
Redlands	p. 53
Day trip 02
Vintage hollywood, desert-style	p. 55
Palm springs	p. 55
Desert hot springs	p. 63
Day trip 03
Glitz & glamour	p. 65
Rancho mirage	p. 65
Palm desert	p. 69
Day trip 04
Nature's own rocky road	p. 75
Joshua tree national park	p. 75
Southeast
Day trip 01
The happiest place on planet southern california	p. 84
Anaheim and disneyland	p. 84
Day trip 02
Ahoy families	p. 92
Buena park	p. 92
Day trip 03
Historical anecdotes & oc options	p. 98
City of orange	p. 98
Santa ana	p. 102
Irvine and costa mesa	p. 103
Day trip 04
Three on the sand-the oc beach cities	p. 106
Huntington beach	p. 108
Newport beach	p. 110
Laguna beach	p. 112
South
Day trip 01
Of sailing ships & queens	p. 116
Long beach	p. 116
Day trip 02
A world away only 22 miles out to sea	p. 124
Santa catalina island	p. 124
Southwest
Day trip 01
Quintessential SoCal	p. 132
Marina del rey	p. 132
Venice beach	p. 138
West
Day trip 01
The best of westside	p. 144
Beverly hills	p. 144
Westwood	p. 149
Day trip 02
Beyond the pier	p. 152
Santa monica	p. 152
Day trip 03
Twenty-seven miles of sun, sand & surf	p. 159
Malibu	p. 159
Northwest
Day trip 01
Funny names, friendly places	p. 168
Oxnard	p. 168
Simi valley	p. 172
Day trip 02
Spiritually inclined	p. 174
Ojai	p. 174
Day trip 03
The way california was	p. 180
Ventura	p. 180
Channel islands national park	p. 184
Day trip 04
America's riviera revealed	p. 186
Santa barbara	p. 186
Regional information	p. 196
Festivals & celebrations	p. 201
Index	p. 208
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