Hancock Park
Hancock Park is a city park in the Miracle Mile section of the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. The park's destinations include the La Brea Tar Pits; the adjacent George C.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include La Brea Tar Pits and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
La Brea Tar Pits
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 2.5.
La Brea Tar Pits comprise an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits.
Pavilion for Japanese Art
Museum
Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Pavilion for Japanese Art is a part of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art containing the museum's collection of Japanese works that date from approximately 3000 BC through the 20th century AD.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Park La Brea and Miracle Mile.
Park La Brea
Neighborhood
Park La Brea is an apartment community in the Miracle Mile District of Los Angeles, California developed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1944.
Miracle Mile
Neighborhood
Photo: DaveofCali, CC BY 2.0.
Miracle Mile is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California. It contains a stretch of Wilshire Boulevard known as Museum Row. It also contains two Historic Preservation Overlay Zones: the Miracle Mile HPOZ and the Miracle Mile North HPOZ.
Carthay
Neighborhood
Carthay is a half-square-mile neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. It contains Carthay Circle, Carthay Square and South Carthay. There are three Los Angeles Historic Preservation Overlay Zones in Carthay.
Hancock Park
- Type: Park
- Description: public park, Los Angeles, United States
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.0637° or 34° 3′ 49″ northLongitude
-118.35678° or 118° 21′ 24″ westElevation
174 feet (53 metres)Open location code
85633J7V+F7OpenStreetMap ID
way 55880600OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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In Other Languages
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