Los Angeles River Center and Gardens

The Arroyo Seco, meaning "dry stream" in Spanish, is a 24.9-mile-long (40.1 km) seasonal river, canyon, watershed, and cultural area in Los Angeles County, California. The area was explored by Gaspar de Portolà who named the stream Arroyo Seco as this canyon had the least water of any he had seen. During this exploration he met the Chief Hahamog-na (Hahamonga) of the Tongva Indians.

Lincoln/Cypress station is an elevated light rail station on the L Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located above Avenue 26 between Artesian Street and Lacy Street in the Lincoln Heights and Cypress Park neighborhoods of Los Angeles, and next to the line's crossing of Interstate 5 This station opened on July 26, 2003, as part of the original Gold Line, then known as the "Pasadena Metro Blue Line" project. The station features a free park-and-ride lot.

Richard Henry Dana Branch, named after Richard Henry Dana, Jr and later known as the Cypress Park Branch, is a former branch library of the Los Angeles Public Library located in the Cypress Park, Los Angeles, California section of Los Angeles, California. The Georgian Revival style building was built in 1926 based on a design by architect Harry S. Bent. In 1987, the Richard Henry Dana Branch and several other branch libraries in Los Angeles were added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a thematic group submission. The application noted that the branch libraries had been constructed in a variety of period revival styles to house the initial branch library system of the City of Los Angeles. With respect to the Dana Branch, the application described the building as a charming one-story New England Colonial Revival Style building. It is designed in an L-plan with a high-pitched gable roof. The portico features paired wood paneled doors with an arched canopy supported by paneled posts. It was initially creamy green with a deep green roof. In 2001, ground was broken for the construction of a new branch library in Cypress Park. The new branch, with 35,000 books, several computer stations and a community meeting room, is three times larger than the schoolhouse-type library branch on Pepper Avenue that served Cypress Park since 1927. There were plans to use the old branch as a senior citizens center.The old library finally reopened as a community center on December 14, 2015. It has been renamed as The Cypress Park Club House.

Lincoln Heights Jail is a former jail building complex in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, located adjacent to the Los Angeles River and situated about 0.7 miles (1.1 km) southwest of the Lincoln/Cypress station. The original building built in the late 1920s is noted for its Art Deco style. The jail was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument on November 30, 1993.

Cypress Park is a densely populated neighborhood of 10,000+ residents in Northeast Los Angeles, California. Surrounded by hills on three sides, it sits in the valley created by the Los Angeles River and the Arroyo Seco. It is the site of the Rio de Los Angeles State Park, the Los Angeles River Bike Path and other recreational facilities. It hosts one private and four public schools. The area was settled as a Spanish rancho which, after the Mexican–American War, became the property of an American landowner. After his death, Cypress Park was subdivided and established as a community in 1882. There are four Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in Cypress Park. The area is currently undergoing rapid to moderate gentrification due to its close proximity to Highland Park, Downtown and various transportation hubs.

California's 34th congressional district is a U.S. congressional district in California. Located in Los Angeles County, the district is represented by Democrat Jimmy Gomez. Its previous U.S. representative, Democrat Xavier Becerra of Los Angeles, resigned January 24, 2017, to become attorney general of California. Representative Gomez won a special election on June 6, 2017, beating fellow Democrat Robert Lee Ahn to replace Becerra. He was later sworn in as the district's U.S. representative on July 11, 2017.The district is almost entirely within the City of Los Angeles, and includes the following neighborhoods in Central, East, and Northeast Los Angeles: Boyle Heights, Chinatown, City Terrace, Cypress Park, Downtown Los Angeles, Eagle Rock, El Sereno, Garvanza, Glassell Park, Highland Park, Koreatown, Little Bangladesh, Little Tokyo, Lincoln Heights, Montecito Heights, Monterey Hills, Mount Washington, and Westlake.

Barra Santos is a restaurant in Cypress Park, Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California. It serves Portuguese cuisine. In 2024, Barra Santos was a semifinalist in the Best New Restaurant category of the James Beard Foundation Awards.

Los Angeles Fire Department Station No. 1 was built in 1941. The Streamline Moderne station located at 2230 Pasadena Avenue replaced an older station, 3 blocks west of its current location. Built in 1887, the original station was the city of Los Angeles' first professional, full-time fire station. The former station's plot of land at Pasadena Ave & North Avenue 19 now houses the LAFD's supply and maintenance yard.Built under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration, the new 6,534 sq ft station was built at a cost of $65,000.00 USD, with the city of Los Angeles responsible for $29,000.00 USD. P. K. Schabarum and Charles O. Brittain of the Los Angeles City Department of Construction were responsible for the station's design.When the new station opened on March 6, 1941, the two-story, reinforced concrete structure housed Engine Company No. 1 and Truck Company No. 1, as well as serving as the headquarters for Battalion Chief 2.The station was listed as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #156 on July 7, 1976.

Heritage Square station is an at-grade light rail station on the L Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located at the intersection of French Avenue and Pasadena Avenue in the western Montecito Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.The station is named after the nearby Heritage Square Museum and is located in the lower Arroyo Seco valley between the San Rafael Hills and Mount Washington. It is adjacent to the Arroyo Seco Parkway (also known as California State Route 110 and the Pasadena Freeway). Heritage Square station opened on July 26, 2003, as part of the original Gold Line, then known as the "Pasadena Metro Blue Line" project. This station and all the other original and Foothill Extension stations will be part of the A Line upon completion of the Regional Connector project in 2022.

Elysian Park is one of largest parks in Los Angeles at 600 acres (240 ha). Most of Elysian Park falls in the neighborhood of the same name, but a small portion of the park falls in Echo Park. The park was created by city ordinance on April 5, 1886. City engineer George Hansen sponsored the ordinance. The land was considered "worthless" at the time. At the time, only a few other parks existed within the Los Angeles city limits. For some time the land sat unimproved, but eventually roads, trails, and landscaping was added.Parts of Elysian Park were swapped for other lands held by the Los Angeles Dodgers when Dodger Stadium was built.

The Chavez Ravine Arboretum, in Elysian Park, just north of Dodger Stadium, at 929 Academy Road, Los Angeles, California, contains more than 100 varieties of trees from around the world, including what are believed to be the oldest and largest Cape Chestnut, Kauri, and Tipu trees in the United States. Admission to the arboretum is free. The Arboretum was founded in 1893 by the Los Angeles Horticultural Society, and planting of rare trees continued through the 1920s. Most of the original trees are still standing. The Arboretum was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1967. Trees in the Arboretum include: Acacia dealbata Acer (maple) Acer campestre (field maple) Acer negundo (box elder) Acer paxii Acer saccharinum (silver maple) Aesculus x carnea Afrocarpus gracilior Agathis robusta Alnus rhombifolia (white alder) Angophora costata (rose apple) Araucaria bidwillii (bunya pine) Archontophoenix cunninghamiana (king palm) Baphia chrysophylla Bauhinia Bauhinia forficata (Brazilian orchid tree) Bauhinia variegata (orchid tree) Betula nigra (black birch) Brachychiton (bottletree) Brachychiton acerifolius (Illiwarra flame tree) Brachychiton acerifolius (Herman hybrid) Brachychiton discolor Brachychiton populneus (Kurrajong) Brahea (Hesper palm) Brahea armata (Mexican blue palm) Brahea brandegeei Brahea edulis (Guadalupe palm) Butia capitata (jelly palm) Calocedrus decurrens (California incense cedar) Calodendrum capense (Cape chestnut) Caryota urens Castanospermum australe Casuarina cunninghamiana Cedrus (cedar) Cedrus deodara Cedrus libani Ceiba (cypress) Ceiba insignis Ceiba speciosa (silk floss tree) Celtis australis Chamaerops humilis Chionanthus retusus Cryptocarya rubra Cryptomeria japonica Cupaniopsis anacardioides Cupressus Cupressus glabra Cupressus species Dalbergia sissoo Dracaena draco (Canary Islands dragon tree) Ehretia Ehretia anacua (sandpaper tree) Ehretia tinifolia Eriobotrya Eriobotrya deflexa Eriobotrya japonica (loquat) Erythrina (coral tree) Erythrina coralloides (naked coral tree) Erythrina falcata (Brazilian coral tree) Erythrina humeana (dwarf kaffirboom) Eucalyptus Eucalyptus camaldulensis (river red gum) Eucalyptus citriodora Eucalyptus cladocalyx (sugar gum) Eucalyptus globulus Eucalyptus robusta (swamp mahogany) Eucalyptus rudis (flooded gum) Eucalyptus viminalis (manna gum) Ficus (fig tree) Ficus microcarpa Ficus racemosa Ficus religiosa (sacred fig) Ficus species Fraxinus (ash) Fraxinus uhdei Fraxinus velutina Handroanthus impetiginosus (pink lapacho) Heteromeles arbutifolia Jacaranda acutifolia Jubaea chilensis (Chilean wine palm) Juglans nigra (eastern black walnut) Lagerstroemia indica (crepe myrtle) Liquidambar formosana (Chinese sweet gum) Liriodendron tulipifera Livistona Livistona australis (cabbage-tree palm) Livistona chinensis (Chinese fan palm) Macadamia ternifolia Magnolia grandiflora Metasequoia glyptostroboides (dawn redwood) Metrosideros excelsa (pohutukawa) Nyssa sylvatica (black tupelo) Phoenix Phoenix canariensis (Canary Island date palm) Phoenix dactylifera (date palm) Phoenix reclinata Phoenix reclinata (hybrid) Phoenix roebelenii x rupicola Phoenix rupicola (cliff date palm) Phytolacca dioica (ombú) Pinus (pine) Pinus canariensis (Canary Island pine) Pinus edulis (Colorado pinyon) Pinus halepensis (aleppo pine) Pinus thunbergii (Japanese black pine) Pittosporum (cheesewood) Pittosporum phillyraeoides Pittosporum tenuifolium (black matipo) Pittosporum undulatum Plinia cauliflora (jabuticaba) Podocarpus totara Psidium guajava (apple guava) Quercus (oak) Quercus agrifolia (coast live oak) Quercus alba (white oak) Quercus cerris (turkey oak) Quercus coccinea (scarlet oak) Quercus macrocarpa (bur oak) Quercus palustris (pin oak) Quercus rubra (northern red oak) Quercus suber (cork oak) Quercus virginiana (southern live oak) Rhapidophyllym hystrix (needle palm) Rhapis excelsa (broadleaf lady palm) Rhodosphaera rhodanthema Rhopalostylis baueri Rhus integrifolia Sabal Sabal causiarum (Puerto Rican hat palm) Sabal species Salix babylonica (weeping willow) Schinus (pepper tree) Schinus molle (Peruvian pepper) Schinus polygamus (Cabrera Hardee peppertree) Sequoiadendron giganteum Syagrus romanzoffiana (queen palm) Taxodium distichum Tipuana tipu Toona ciliata Trachycarpus Trachycarpus fortunei (windmill palm) Trachycarpus wagnerianus Tristaniopsis laurina (water gum) Trithrinax acanthocoma Ulmus americana (American elm) Umbellularia californica (California bay laurel) Washingtonia Washingtonia filifera (desert fan) Washingtonia robusta (Mexican fan palm) Zelkova serrata (Japanese zelkova)

The Portolá Trail Campsite or Portolá Trail Campsite No. 1 is the spot of the first Europeans to travel and camp overnight in what is now Central Los Angeles, California. The Portolá expedition camped at the site on August 2, 1769. The Portolá Trail Campsite No. 1 was designated a California Historic Landmark (No.655) on Sept. 26, 1958. The Portolá Trail Campsite is located in what is now the Elysian Park entrance, at the NW corner of North Broadway and Elysian Park Drive in the City of Los Angeles in Los Angeles County. The campsite is near the Los Angeles River, which they used as their water supply for the camp. Military officer Gaspar de Portolá was the commander of the expedition for the Spanish Empire with the goal of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The expedition led to the founding of the first mission in the Los Angeles Basin, the Mission Vieja, on September 8, 1771 and of Alta California. The expedition arrived at Portolá Trail Campsite No. 1 from the San Gabriel Valley, were the Mission San Gabriel would be built later in 1776. As they depart Portolá Trail Campsite No. 1 they traveled west towards Santa Monica Bay, stopping at Portolá Trail Campsite 2, which is in present day Beverly Hills. Portolá Trail Campsite 2 is also a California Historic Landmark (No.665). At San Monica Bay the expedition turned and traveled north to were the future Mission San Fernando would be built in 1797. Form San Fernando the expedition turned west to Ventura, the site of the future Mission San Buenaventura built in 1782. Listed on the State Marker 655:Don Gaspar de Portolá (1723–1786) – Expedition Leader would become the first Governor of the Californias. Captain Don Fernando Rivera y Moncada (1725–1781) – soldier and became the third Governor of The Californias. Lieutenant Don Pedro Fages (1734–1794) – soldier, became Lieutenant Governor under Gaspar de Portolá. Sgt. José Francisco Ortega (1734–1798) – soldier and early settler of Alta California. Leader of the Presidio of San Diego. Father Juan Crespí (1721–1782) – recorded the complete expedition. Founder of first mission in area. Father Francisco Gómez – served as chaplain for the expedition, a Father from Mission San Diego, later move to Mission Carmel.