The Classic Wilshire Walk
The next Wilshire Walk is Nov. 4, 2018. Register here.
Meet 8 a.m. Nov. 4 at 1 Wilshire Boulevard in downtown LA.
What's different:
1. It's16 miles on city streets from L.A. to Santa Monica. Hikers are encouraged to take public transit to the start of the walk.
2. Lunch stop will be in Westwood. A good spot to stop and explore too!
3. Walkers can go all the way or part way on the walk; public transit will be available along the route.
4. We'll finish in Santa Monica. Expo Line or 720 bus takes hikers back to downtown LA.
Questions?
Los Angeles magazine recently declared Wilshire Walk, a 16-mile a stroll between downtown L.A. and Santa Monica, as one of the top 10 walks in L.A.
Sierra Club invites you on this urban trek that will appeal to walkers, culture mavens and L.A. history buffs. Some of the sites you'll see:
- MacArthur Park and nearby early 20th century luxury apartments.
- The onetime Bullocks Wilshire, a turquoise zig-zag moderne building.
- The La Brea Tar Pits.
- LACMA's "Levitated Mass" sculpture.
- "Urban Light" sculpture by Chris Burden at LACMA, and pieces of the Berlin Wall.
- Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
- St. Monica statue in Santa Monica
Here's how the L.A. Conservancy describes one of L.A.'s iconic boulevards:
"It crosses three cities, includes the most dense and ethnically diverse neighborhoods in Los Angeles, reflects nearly every major architectural style of the twentieth century, and embodies the role of the automobile in the growth of Southern California."
