{"id":478,"date":"2011-05-09T17:59:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"la-river-tour-elysian-valley-to-long-beach-wboyle-heights-taqueria-and-bell-raspados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2011\/05\/09\/la-river-tour-elysian-valley-to-long-beach-wboyle-heights-taqueria-and-bell-raspados\/","title":{"rendered":"LA River tour&#8211;Elysian Valley to Long Beach, w\/Boyle Heights taqueria and Bell raspados"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join Friends of the Los Angeles River for a special tour with HiddenLA:<br \/>Carpool tour (option to leave midday)<br \/>Led by Jenny Price<\/p>\n<p>Everyone in Los Angeles has seen the LA River, and has heard that it&#8217;s being revitalized. But who knows where it is, exactly&#8211;and what exactly is happening on its banks?<\/p>\n<p>Join us as we walk and drive along the river, to talk about its central role in the city&#8217;s history and the necessity of the ambitious revitalization projects to LA&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>The tour convenes at the River Center&nbsp; (570 W Ave. 26, near the 5\/110&#8211;8:30am sharp!&#8211;for a 9:00 departure), where we form carpools, and stops at the verdant Glendale Narrows, the historic Arroyo Seco confluence, and the industrial downtown stretch that everyone&#8217;s seen in movies and on TV.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>We&#8217;ll eat lunch at an excellent Boyle Heights taqueria en route (or feel free to bring your own)&#8211;and then we&#8217;ll head into the even less well-known South, to the new Maywood Riverfront Park, an optional raspados stop in Bell, and the stunning new Dominguez Gap wetland in Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Bring snacks and water and shoes that can get a little wet.&nbsp; Dogs welcome.<\/p>\n<p>DIRECTIONS TO RIVER CENTER:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.lamountains.com\/maps\/riverCenter.pdf&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(or Metro Gold Line&#8211;Lincoln\/Cypress exit, W 3 blocks on Ave. 26, entrance on S side 1\/2 blk after Figueroa)<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-478\" data-postid=\"478\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-478 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Friends of the Los Angeles River for a special tour with HiddenLA:Carpool tour (option to leave midday)Led by Jenny Price Everyone in Los Angeles has seen the LA River, and has heard that it&#8217;s being revitalized. But who knows where it is, exactly&#8211;and what exactly is happening on its banks? Join us as we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7,10,12,14,18,20,22,24,25,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}