Travel Guide

Johnny Park Indoor Parking Services and Free Things to Do in Los Angeles

Vacationing in Los Angeles doesn’t mean you have to spend a fortune on admission fees and parking meters! In fact, many parks and historical sites have free admission as well as free parking. Nobody can resist having a live history lesson on the City of Angels while enjoying California’s beautiful landscapes and warm weather. There are plenty of sites and landmarks for you to visit in LAX (Los Angeles)! All you need to bring is a few friends and a good camera to capture the great time you’ll have!

Beautiful Parks in LAX

Douglas Park

Park your car at a nearby parking lot and take a walk through the beautiful Douglas Park, which opened in 1916. Located in the North Beach Region, this park features a lawn bowling green, a big new playground and water park, and two tennis courts.

Angel’s Gate Park

Angel’s Gate Park is like a piece of heaven on earth. Its centerpiece is the famous Korean Bell of Friendship (S. Gaffey St. and 37th St.) where the Republic of Korean donated it to Los Angeles to mark the United States’ Independence bicentennial. For a good parking spot, be sure to visit this popular park before mid-afternoon! Featuring the Goddess of Liberty, this bell rings on three occasions each year: Fourth of July, Korean Independence Day (August 15) and New Year’s Eve. This park also offers a panoramic view of the coastline and Santa Catalina Island.

Biddy Manson Park

The timeline wall by artist Sheila de Bretteville and visual artist Beyte Saar's assemblage contains photographs, imprints, maps and drawings that honor Biddy Mason. Located on the original site where pioneering philanthropist Biddy Mason became one of the first African American women to own land in Los Angeles in 1866, this amazing woman was born a slave and walked from the South to freedom in LAX. As a nurse/midwife and a successful entrepreneur, Biddy Manson ran the city's first child care center out of her home and founded the city's First African Methodist Episcopal Church on this very ground.

Interesting Historic Sites in LAX

The Daniel Freeman Land Office

Originally, the historical Land Office stood by the railroad depot in 1887, but was moved by Daniel Freeman to his home in 1892 for his own use until his death in 1918. As part of a Bicentennial project in 1975, this Land Office was moved again to the Centinela Adobe Complex. Nowadays, the office serves as a show place for Early Inglewood businesses were tourists can stop their cars in the nearby parking lot and come for a visit between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Wednesdays and Sundays.

Barnsdall Art Park

This park was named after socialite Aline Barnsdall, who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build her home and later gave the property to the city of Los Angeles. Located on top of Olive Hill near the intersection of Hollywood and Vermont, Barnsdall Art Park has hosted local and international art exhibits for decades within its main facility, the LAX Municipal Art Gallery. With its breathtaking views of the city and the Hollywood Sign, take your car to the nearby parking lot and come explore the park's beautiful garden landscape and wide variety of art exhibits. Barnsdall Art Park was closed for remodeling from 2000-2003 and officially reopened on June 4, 2003 with brand new visual and design art exhibits! Check it out!

Campo de Cahuenga

Known by many historians as the birthplace of California, the Campo de Cahuenga is where the Capitulation of Cahuenga was signed on a kitchen table of the six-room adobe house of Tomas Feliz in 1847. This treaty signalled the end of hostilities in California in the Mexican-American War. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 ended the final chapter in the war between Mexico and the United States. Today, a replica of the original adobe house can be seen and here you will find copies of documents relating to the treaty, as well as many plaques and monuments that have been dedicated to historic figures. The original adobe house was never renovated and thus deteriorated until it was finally demolished in 1900.