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Explore our favorite weekend escapes in and around Southern California.

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Spreckels Organ Pavilion
Here are five of the best performance spaces in Southern California, where you can get cultured in the great outdoors … catch a performance with a picnic … and see a show under the stars.
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Dan Garr leads a crew of neighborhood volunteers in the construction of imaginative floats for Westchester's annual Fourth of July Parade.
Saddleback Butte State Park
Here are six great state parks where you can hoof your way through history — whether your interest lies in prehistoric rock, 19th century transportation or mid-century civil engineering failures.
Orange Grove, Northridge
Here are five great places to stand in the shadows of groves gone by and get a slice of some juicy citrus history.
Courtesy Keys Creek Lavender Farm
Many people don’t realize that some of the best lavender in the world is grown in Southern California. From May to July, you can experience the stunning and restorative beauty of this ancient herb first-hand at farms and festivals throughout the region.
Citrus Picking
When even the nearest farmers’ market just won’t do, here are five of the best crops that these fertile lands have to offer … and that you can pick on your own.
Felicity Pyramid
The drive from California to the Arizona border on Interstate 8 can be an uneventful one, until you reach a 21-foot, pink-granite pyramid curiously erected in the Sonoran Desert that marks the “Center of the World.”
Yamashiro
Here are the five best places to discover how the Japanese influenced the L.A. metro area.
Peter Strauss Ranch
This summer marks the return of musicians and dancers to Peter Strauss Ranch as part of the National Park Service’s Arts in the Parks program — one that features free art installations and performances to draw visitors back to this historic site.
Potato Mountain / Herman Garner Biological Preserve
Here are five great places to explore on foot in the San Gabriel Valley that aren’t too far afield, yet have plenty of fodder for your sense of adventure.
Velveteria
From streetscape antiquities to morbid mementos and kitschy curios, here are five oddball places that have reinvented the experience of “going to the museum” in L.A.
An illustration of hot air balloons flying in the air.
If watching birds just isn’t enough for you — and you’d rather join their ranks up there in the sky — here are five of the most exciting ways to get airborne and pretend for a while that you may actually have wings.
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