San Pedro & the harbor

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Places worth stopping at

With the app in your pocket, you get a note about each one as you walk by.

• Museums3›

  • Battleship Iowa

    Walk the decks of the Iowa: in 1943 she carried Roosevelt across the Atlantic on his way to meet Churchill and Stalin at Tehran. A museum at Berth 87 since 2012.

  • Los Angeles Maritime Museum

    The West Coast's largest maritime museum sits in the 1941 ferry terminal, idle since the Vincent Thomas Bridge opened in 1963. Inside: the Poseidon Adventure model.

  • Cabrillo Marine Aquarium

    Cabrillo's aquarium began in 1935 in the beach bathhouse; Frank Gehry designed the 1981 building. Ask about the grunion runs on the sand.

• Landmarks2›

  • Point Fermin Lighthouse

    A redwood lighthouse of 1874, dark from Pearl Harbor on and saved from demolition in 1972. Its lost Fresnel lens turned up in Malibu and came home in 2006.

  • Korean Bell of Friendship

    Seventeen tons of bronze, a gift from South Korea for the 1976 Bicentennial. Liberty goddesses and Korean spirit figures share its sides.

Walks

Start a walk in the app and put your phone away. It tells you when you reach each stop.

• Walk

  The harbor to Point Fermin

  5 stops · 6.5 km · 2 hr

  The waterfront from the Battleship Iowa and the Maritime Museum to the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, the lighthouse on the bluff and the Korean Bell above Angels Gate: about 5 km.

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