Best Family-Friendly Attractions

Explore the best best family-friendly attractions options for kids and families in Huntington Park

Augustus F. Hawkins Nature Park

Augustus F. Hawkins Nature Park

Tranquil green space with nature center. Calm, 8.5-acre retreat featuring native flora & wetlands, plus a small museum with nature exhibits.

Exposition Park

Exposition Park

Public green space with museums & arenas. Urban space comprising 160 acres with arenas & museums, plus some green areas with trees & gardens.

Exposition Park Rose Garden

Exposition Park Rose Garden

Charming park devoted to roses. Cheerful formal park featuring a collection of roses & a gazebo.

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Dinosaur skeletons & rotating exhibits. From T. rex skeletons to an insect zoo, popular attraction holds more than 35-million artifacts.

DTLA Arts District

DTLA Arts District

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Grand Hope Park

Grand Hope Park

Playground, lawns & iconic clock tower. 2.5-acre urban park featuring a playground & grass lawns amid an iconic mosaic-adorned clock tower.

Kyoto Garden

Kyoto Garden

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Angels Flight Railway

Angels Flight Railway

Historical landmark with a short ride. World's shortest railway, built in 1901, with 2 funicular cars that travel on a 298ft incline.

The Broad

The Broad

Contemporary museum with many works. Modern art museum with a honeycomb-like facade housing rotating exhibits, plus a shop & restaurant.

Public Art "Aquarius"

Public Art "Aquarius"

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Gloria Molina Grand Park

Gloria Molina Grand Park

Memorial fountain & a performance lawn. Gathering place featuring an intimate performance area, memorial fountain & wade-able membrane pool.

Los Angeles State Historic Park

Los Angeles State Historic Park

Public green space with Downtown views. 32 acres of open space with walkways & architectural features, plus Downtown views.

Columbia Memorial Space Center

Columbia Memorial Space Center

Kid-friendly exhibits about space. Modern locale featuring family-friendly, interactive exhibits about space, including a simulator.

Dennis the Menace Park

Dennis the Menace Park

Grassy local park with a playground. This neighborhood park is a family destination with a big grassy lawn, a playground & picnic tables.

Wilderness Park

Wilderness Park

Compact park with a duck pond. Small public park featuring a duck pond, walk/jog paths & grassy areas popular for picnicking.

Golf N' Stuff

Golf N' Stuff

Mini-golf park with rides & go-karts. Boasting an 18-hole mini-golf course, this amusement park also offers an arcade, go-karts & rides.

Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area

Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area

Expansive park for outdoor activities. This 308-acre park features a Japanese garden, a workout course, athletic fields & scenic trails.

Pio Pico State Historic Park

Pio Pico State Historic Park

State park with 19th-century adobe house. Historic state park is home to Pio Pico's renovated 19th century built from adobe blocks.

Hathaway Ranch Museum

Hathaway Ranch Museum

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Hollyhock House

Hollyhock House

A Frank Lloyd Wright house with gardens. Self-guided tours are available of this Wright-designed home, with roof terraces & gardens.

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum

Prehistoric-fossil excavation site. Ice Age–fossil excavation site with an adjacent museum, plus a re-created prehistoric garden.

Culver City Park

Culver City Park

Sports, picnics, a dog zone & skating. Leisure space on 41+ acres for ball sports, picnics & grilling, plus a dog park & skateboard area.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

From pre-Columbian to contemporary works. This 20-acre campus with diverse collections spanning art history also offers screenings & concerts.

Vincent Lugo Park

Vincent Lugo Park

San Gabriel's largest city park. Athletic fields, picnic tables, trails & a playground featured in San Gabriel's largest city park.

Fern Dell Nature Preserve

Fern Dell Nature Preserve

Outdoor space with lush foliage & trails. Serene enclave at Griffith Park featuring walking paths amid tropical foliage & a man-made brook.

Griffith Park & Southern Railroad

Griffith Park & Southern Railroad

Park featuring rides on mini trains. Center for train rides on reproductions of classic American locomotives, with a mile-long track.

Hollywood Walk of Fame

Hollywood Walk of Fame

Star-studded Hollywood sidewalk. Famous Hollywood sidewalk area emblazoned with stars & celebrity names since 1960.

Whittier Narrows Park

Whittier Narrows Park

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Magic of The Jack o lanterns

Magic of The Jack o lanterns

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Whittier Narrows Recreation Area

Whittier Narrows Recreation Area

Various sports, trails, 3 lakes & museum. Diverse sports, 3 lakes, a military museum, shooting ranges, horse center, disc golf & urban farm.

Garfield Park

Garfield Park

Tidy park with tennis courts, playground. A city park space with tennis courts, a looped path, a playground & meditative garden space.

Griffith Observatory

Griffith Observatory

Planetarium, telescopes & city views. This art deco landmark from 1935 features a high-tech planetarium, public telescopes & city views.

The Wende Museum

The Wende Museum

Cold War history museum. Museum featuring Cold War-era European & Soviet Union artifacts & history archives.

Whittier Museum

Whittier Museum

Educational displays of city history. Historical artifacts & exhibits related to the city of Whittier; open to the public weekends only.

The Hollywood Museum

The Hollywood Museum

Movie, TV, stage & music exhibits. Hollywood history, including props, costumes, scripts & photos, housed in a historic building.

World of Illusions Los Angeles

World of Illusions Los Angeles

Interactive experiences in trendy museum. 3D illusions & an Upside-Down House exhibit, plus other interactive experiences in a popular museum.

Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Museum for unusual & bizarre artifacts. Museum with kitschy oddities on display, including shrunken human heads & rare animal skeletons.

Hollywood Wax Museum

Hollywood Wax Museum

Museum containing waxwork celebrities. Famous Hollywood faces are cast out of wax at this museum with late-night hours.

Columbia Park

Columbia Park

52-acre recreational park & gardens. A variety of sports courts & fields on 52 acres, along with community gardens & picnic areas.

The Walk Of Fun Hollywood

The Walk Of Fun Hollywood

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Tellefson Park

Tellefson Park

Park with a kids' playground & restrooms. Compact city park with various sports facilities, a playground for children, restrooms & parking.

Arlington Garden in Pasadena

Arlington Garden in Pasadena

Mediterranean-style public garden. 3-acre, admission-free formal garden featuring Mediterranean & Californian trees & succulents.

Bronson Caves

Bronson Caves

Man-made caves featured in iconic films. Seen in many iconic films, these man-made caves provide trails & scenic views of the Hollywood Sign.

Polliwog Park

Polliwog Park

Playgrounds, disc golf & a large pond. Park boasting a large pond & amphitheater for events plus a 9-hole disc golf course & play areas.

Old Los Angeles Zoo

Old Los Angeles Zoo

Abandoned zoo with ruins & hiking trails. Founded in 1912, this now-abandoned zoo offers past enclosure ruins, picnic space & hiking trails.

Clutter's Park

Clutter's Park

Open space known for airport views. Planes can be seen taking off & landing at this small park that overlooks LAX.

Lacy Park

Lacy Park

Open green space, tennis & walking loops. Dog-friendly public expanse featuring 2 walking loops, 6 tennis courts & a decades-old rose arbor.

Ballona Discovery Park

Ballona Discovery Park

Educational park with wetland plants. Educational wetland park featuring an interpretive walk & gardens with native plants.

Griffith Park

Griffith Park

Hiking trails, city views & L.A. Zoo. Urban oasis featuring hiking & equestrian trails, plus city views, the Greek Theatre & the L.A. Zoo.

Wrigley Mansion

Wrigley Mansion

1906 Renaissance mansion & gardens. A 1906 Renaissance design mansion with 4.5 acre flower gardens & HQ for new year Rose Parade.

Runyon Canyon Park

Runyon Canyon Park

Popular hiking trails with scenic views. Landmark hiking trails known for sweeping city views & people watching, plus an off-leash dog park.

Torrance Art Museum

Torrance Art Museum

Contemporary exhibits & free admission. Museum offering free admission to 2 galleries focusing on contemporary art from Southern California.

Hollywood Sign

Hollywood Sign

Iconic letters atop Mount Lee since 1923. Erected in 1923, this symbolic landmark on Mount Lee is often viewed from Griffith Park Observatory.

Central Park

Central Park

Park with a playground & lawn bowling. Park with a playground, a picnic area, lawn bowling, croquet, a walkway & restrooms.

Children's Garden

Children's Garden

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The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Cultural center with galleries & gardens. Expansive complex housing art galleries with famous works, rare-book collections & lush gardens.

Norton Simon Museum

Norton Simon Museum

Noted collection of European & Asian art. Unconventional building housing a noted collection of European & Asian art plus a sculpture garden.

Los Angeles Zoo

Los Angeles Zoo

Lush zoo with more than 270 species. Zoo & botanical gardens open since 1966 containing more than 270 animal species & 800 plant species.

Torrance Park

Torrance Park

Playground, picnic area & sports fields. This 10-acre park features a playground, covered picnic space & BBQs, plus athletic fields & courts.

Dominguez Park

Dominguez Park

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Old Pasadena

Old Pasadena

Historic shopping & entertainment area. Downtown historic district, now a popular destination for shopping, dining & entertainment.

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