Park La Brea
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: human settlement in Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Also known as: “Park La Brea, Los Angeles” and “Parklabrea”
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.
Petersen Automotive Museum
Museum
Photo: Mbodell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Petersen Automotive Museum is an automobile museum located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. One of the world's largest collections, the Petersen Automotive Museum is a nonprofit organization specializing in automobile history and related educational programs.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Miracle Mile and Carthay.
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.
Fairfax District
Suburb
Photo: Kkmd, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Fairfax District is a neighborhood in the Central region of Los Angeles, California. Historically the Fairfax District has been a center of the Jewish community in Los Angeles.
Park La Brea
- Categories: district or neighborhood of Los Angeles and locality
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.0674° or 34° 4′ 3″ northLongitude
-118.35524° or 118° 21′ 19″ westElevation
184 feet (56 metres)Open location code
85633J8V+XWOpenStreetMap ID
node 150971266OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Park La Brea” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منتزه لا بريا”
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