What to see near Channel Road Inn
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5 Places Worth Seeing
Los Angeles, CA
Venice Canals
A surviving grid of residential canals built in 1905 to evoke Venice, Italy, now lined with eclectic houses, gardens, and arched pedestrian bridges a few blocks from the boardwalk. Ducks paddle past kayaks and the still water doubles the bridges and palms. It is a quiet, walkable pocket that feels nothing like the rest of Los Angeles.
Malibu, CA
Solstice Canyon
A shaded canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains where an easy trail follows a year-round creek to the stone ruins of a 1950s house and a small waterfall. Oaks and sycamores arch over the path, and the Rising Sun Trail climbs the ridge for ocean views back down the canyon. It is one of the few Malibu canyons with water and shade through summer.
Los Angeles, CA
Griffith Observatory
An Art Deco landmark on the south slope of Mount Hollywood with the most famous view in Los Angeles: the entire basin spread out to the Pacific, the Hollywood Sign on the ridge behind, and downtown's towers rising in the middle distance. The lawn and terraces are free and open late, and the domes glow copper at sunset. On clear winter days the view runs from the snow on Mount Baldy to Catalina Island.
Los Angeles, CA
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Frank Gehry's stainless-steel concert hall on Bunker Hill, a billowing sculpture of curved panels that catches and bends the light differently every hour. The public garden on the upper level winds between the steel sails with views over downtown. Across the street, the Broad museum's honeycomb facade makes a second study in contemporary form.
Malibu, CA
El Matador State Beach
A pocket beach below the bluffs of western Malibu where sea stacks, arches, and caves stand in the surf, the most photographed stretch of the Los Angeles coast. A steep stair descends to sand that nearly disappears at high tide, leaving the rocks wet and reflective. Sunset backlights the stacks and turns the wet sand to copper.
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