Day Trips from Los Angeles: Getaway Ideas For The Local Traveler [Paperback]

Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with Day Trips from Los Angeles. This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover within a two-hour drive of the Los Angeles metro area.Day Trips? from Los Angeles is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover not far from Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles County has 9.8 million residents, and more than 60% of all visitors to Santa Barbaraa big part of this bookare from Los Angeles County! Trips are listed geographically, starting closest to downtown Los Angeles and radiating outward. Despite Southern Californias car-crazy reputation, this guide includes car-free options where applicable. * Do something star-studded: Explore Hollywood, Burbank, and Universal City & Universal Studios. * Do something sunny: Visit Malibu, twenty-three miles of sun, sand, and surf; Santa Catalina Island, a world away twenty-six miles out to sea; or Marina Del Rey/Venice Beach, quintessential So Cal. * Do something kid-approved: Get a taste of Buena Park/Knotts Berry Farm, or visit the Happiest Place on Planet Southern California, Anaheim/Disneyland.Laura Kath and Pamela Price, 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.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 Lls!