La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
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.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Hancock Park.
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. Los Angeles County Museum of Art is situated 620 feet west of La Brea Tar Pits and Museum.
Hancock Park
Park
Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
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
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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.
La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
- Type: Museum
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- 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″ westOpen location code
85633J7V+F7OpenStreetMap ID
way 913293610OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museum
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