Walking Tours

Eight curated routes through the city’s layered history. Pick one, read the brief, and start it from anywhere — you don’t have to be standing on the corner.

Broadway Theatre WalkThe Golden Age of Movie Palaces · Downtown LA8 stops · 0.7 mi · ~45 minEight movie palaces, one half-mile of Broadway — you just walked through the most opulent stretch of sidewalk in Los Angeles.

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The Golden Triangle WalkBeverly Hills · Beverly Hills10 stops · 1.3 mi · ~65 minYou just walked the Golden Triangle — where a horse trail became a billion-dollar shopping street, a Frank Lloyd Wright hides in plain sight, and the post office has better architecture than most museums. The Beverly Wilshire has been here since 1928. Nate 'n Al's since 1945. The sign since 2007. And behind every flagship storefront, there's an origin story stranger than the price tags. Everything in Beverly Hills is newer than it looks — except the ambition.

Sunset East — The Indie WalkEcho Park & Silver Lake · Echo Park & Silver Lake6 stops · 1.5 mi · ~60 minYou just walked the indie side of Sunset — from a queer uprising that predated Stonewall to a time travel shop that sells mammoth chunks. You passed a wall that mourns a musician, a theater that dances flamenco, and a music school founded by a bass player. This is the Sunset Boulevard that doesn't make the postcards. It's better than the one that does.

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The Sunset Strip Rock WalkHollywood · Hollywood6 stops · 1 mi · ~60 minYou just walked the Sunset Strip — one mile of pavement that produced more rock and roll history than most countries. From Lemmy's bar stool to the Chateau's hedge, from Ciro's ghost to The Doors' residency, from a sidewalk tragedy to a comedy revolution. Six stops. Every venue still open, still booking, still pouring. The Strip doesn't do nostalgia — it does Thursday night. Come back after dark. The neon is better.

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Bunker Hill to BroadwayDowntown LA · Downtown LA10 stops · 1.5 mi · ~75 minYou just walked from Bunker Hill to Broadway — from the cultural hilltop to the commercial canyon, from Gehry's steel to Wyman's ironwork, from a billion-dollar art collection to a bank vault full of used books. You rode the shortest railway, ate in a hundred-year-old market, and ended at a cafeteria where a man who built a fake forest took down a real government. A mile and a half. Ten stops. 140 years. This is Downtown LA — not the version on the postcards, the version in the architecture.

The Santa Monica Coastal WalkFrom a 1909 carousel to a 150-year-old saloon · Santa Monica8 stops · 1.8 mi · ~75 minYou just walked the Santa Monica coastline — from a Route 66 neon arch to a 150-year-old saloon, from a carousel that costs pocket change to a dive bar that sent a peanut to the moon. Eight stops. No filler. No parking lots. No onramps. Just the real Santa Monica — the one that was here before the selfie sticks and will be here after.

Hollywood Boulevard WalkFrom the Gateway to the Grill · Hollywood9 stops · 0.8 mi · ~55 minEight stops, one boulevard, and a century of reinvention — you just walked the street that taught the world how to dream in celluloid.