If the weather forecasts are to be believed—yes, they’ve gotten better over the years– Los Angeles is due to have a quite a few rain showers; and overall, a wet weekend. Travelin’ Local’s mission is to write about, and focus our stories on the positive side of things, so we’ve prepared a list of fun things [...]

At Travelin’ Local, we’re constantly working to provide our readers with quality fun content, entertaining stories, and information about all of the free activities to do and see here locally.  In a city that has a reputation for being among the most expensive in the nation–there’s always plenty of free activities to do, and here’s [...]

Los Angeles and Southern California are famous for our hundreds of miles of lovely beaches which face the Pacific, running the length of our western coast. But even here, the temperatures in the winter get a little cool to swim in the Pacific every day. Accordingly, it rained yesterday, which reminds us that rain [...]

If you’re looking for a place to kick back with the kids, play some sports, or enjoy the outdoors, check out Crestwood Hills Park. I did, this past beautiful Saturday morning. Although it’s a little off the beaten path–it’s high up in the Brentwood Hills–it’s worth spending a little extra time to get there.   There’s a playground [...]

I recently wrote a story about Balboa Park, and talked about the magnificence of the Botanical Building at Balboa Park in San Diego. I’ve always loved flowers, gardens, and the natural habitat of plants, so for me walking through the arboretum and seeing it inside was both enthralling and enchanting. Before entering this magnificent homage to [...]

Balboa Park in the heart of downtown San Diego, is home to San Diego’s Historical Museum, the Model Railroad Museum, the Museum of Photographic Arts, the Natural History Museum of San Diego, the Rueben H. Fleet Science Center, and the San Diego Museum of Art, to name just a few of its many attractions. It’s [...]

In a recent article published by Forbes, they ranked Los Angeles as the second most stressful city to live in. To determine their rankings of the “most” stressful cities, Forbes—using Federal data– analyzed factors including sleep, air quality, drop in home price values, unemployment percentages, as well as the ratio of sunny days per year [...]

The Pan Pacific Auditorium in 1937 (Photo via the Los Angeles Public Library and the LAist) From its iconic start, the Pan Pacific Park, which spans a full city block, has had many rough years, but is now seeing a comeback. First opened in 1935, the Pan-Pacific Auditorium, with its famous four stylized towers and flagpoles which [...]

Going to the movies is always in “vogue” but seeing them for free is tres chic. Since we’ve wrote about all of the free summer concerts in Los Angeles; we thought you’d also want to know about all the free movies as well. Your wish is our command–of course we know all of this because Travelin’ [...]

Last week I had an opportunity to visit to Hancock Park and the La Brea Tar Pits. I enjoyed myself so thoroughly that it was hard for me to leave—but I’ll be back soon as they’re located in the middle of the city and quite accessible from all directions, with plenty of parking and Metro [...]

With over 20 public parks in Santa Monica, local residents and visitors have a lot of activities to choose from. Is your favorite sport baseball? Do you have small children, or teenagers? Whatever your game may be, Santa Monica Park and Recreations probably has it. For Today’s Travelin’ Local morning walk, I strolled over to Clover Park, located [...]

Can you see yourself in this picture? If you visit Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro, you can not only become a part of the scenery, you can frolic in it as well. But, Cabrillo Beach isn’t just about relaxing on the sand or swimming in the Pacific. It’s also about: A leisurely stroll along the pier “Going, Going [...]