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Departures Field Guides

Travel as a tourist, get lost in your own hometown. Discover a neighborhood unfamiliar to you or explore a different side to the one you live in. Through Departures Field Guides we provide routes for self-guided walking tours, hiking and biking trails, where to go horse-riding and fishing, museums and historical sites to visit, and where to eat and shop.

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Originally scheduled for development as an apartment complex, the land was abandoned for several years. By 1992, it was adopted by artist Tricia Ward who turned the space into an art park for the local community.
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The fourth largest park in Los Angeles and host to the Audubon Center, Debs Park is easily accessible via the Arroyo Seco Parkway in Highland Park or the east-side via El Sereno. Part wildlife refuge, part recreational facility, the park serves much of...
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Widely believed to be the setting of the popular 1884 novel Romona by Helen Hunt Jackson, Rancho Camulos will forever be associated with the California lifestyle and the Rancho era in California History.
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The Mission's location in the San Fernando Valley relieved the long passage on the El Camino Real between San Gabriel and San Buenaventura.
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Designated as the "Pride of the Missions", the San Gabriel Arcángel Mission is the oldest building in Los Angeles County.
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Originally bordered by the Arroyo Seco and inhabited by the Hahamongna that once thrived in Highland Park, Rancho San Rafael was a massive 36,000 acres that was granted to Corporal Jose Maria Verdugo by the Spanish government.
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This area was formerly known as "Professor's Row" for the faculty from Occidental College that once resided here in the early 1900s.
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