The Great Los Angeles Walk veteran Nick Campbell, who first joined us all the way back in 2010 for a previous Wilshire journey, has put together a cool map highlighting architecture, history, art, food, coffee, parks, culture and children's interests along the way. As culled from sources including Eater, LA Taco, Maps, Modernist's Guide, National Register of Historic Places and our Walk Handout (which utilizes LA Conservancy info), it's a thorough list of things to see on our walk.
Over here, Nick has more helpful hints for how to make the most out of your Great LA Walk experience. I especially like the last two:
Be curious.
The whole point is to see and do things in places that you might otherwise ignore. Eat that food that you’ve always wondered about. Poke your head into a building that you’ve seen from the outside a thousand times and always wondered what it looks like on the inside. Buy stuff from the small businesses along the way. It’s not a race so take your time looking through things. Take the 99% Invisible approach and read the plaques. Look at them as milemarkers and things to get amped about. You’re about to learn something. How cool is that?
Be a tourist.
This is your chance to be a tourist in your own city in a way that doesn’t mean you have to hop on a bus to see Jimmy Kimmel’s house. Check out the street art. Take pictures of street signs. Treat this the same way you might if you were in Madrid or Helsinki or Tokyo. Bask in the joy of doing something weird. Marathoners don’t often have the time and wherewithal to take pictures of themselves doing something incredible. Be proud of what you’re doing and the endurance you are mustering to do it.
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