Los Angeles Griffith Park E-Bike Adventure

This is an alternative, more remote, tour of Griffith Park to show the wild backside of this massive park (it does not include the Hollywood Sign and Observatory). Instead, riders will shear off at Cathy's Corner (infamous site of the "LA LA Land" dance sequence) and head to Beehive Rock for sweeping views of the valley across to the San Gabriel Mountains - you get a real scale of LA wrapping around the park. We'll also stop at Travel Town, the Greek Theater, Autry Museum, LA Zoo (old and new), glide along the LA River and Frogtown, Los Feliz, Love Lock Bridge and into Atwater Village to visit the largest avocado tree in the USA. Note that this ride also is cooler in summer, as sun is on the other side of the hill.

Meeting Point

E Bike Tours Los Angeles

3306 Glendale Blvd #2, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA

Our local guide will meet you at our office, a dedicated bike bungalow in adorable Atwater Village, an easy walkable neighborhood known for its cafe scene and artisanal shopping. We'll introduce you to your ebike and get you acquainted (yes all the ebikes have names!) and fitted with safety gear.

What to expect:

Duration: between 2 hours, 30 minutes and 3 hours

E Bike Tours Los Angeles

3306 Glendale Blvd #2, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA

Our local guide will meet you at our office, a dedicated bike bungalow in adorable Atwater Village, an easy walkable neighborhood known for its cafe scene and artisanal shopping. We'll introduce you to your ebike and get you acquainted (yes all the ebikes have names!) and fitted with safety gear.

10 minutes

Atwater Village

Atwater Village, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA

We head off into quiet residential streets for the LA River.

5 minutes

Los Angeles River Bike Path

Riverside Drive, , Los Angeles, California

We stop at the car-free "Red Car Bridge", so named after the legendary Red Car Trolleys that rumbled over the L.A. River at the same spot more than 60 years ago. The new metal bridge with red stripes running down its sides is only for pedestrians and cyclists. We'll also learn about our beloved LA River, the lifeblood of Los Angeles throughout its early history, providing essential water for life in this arid region. Without this river, LA would have never existed.

10 minutes

Griffith Park

4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, 90027-1401, California

We'll drop by the Griffith Park Ranger Station and the vintage Griffith Park Carousel - an iconic Merry-Go-Round built in 1926 and featuring 68 elaborately decorated wooden horses & an organ, where Walt Disney's imagination first took flight.

10 minutes

Old Los Angeles Zoo

4801 Griffith Park Dr, Located In Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 90027, California

The Old Los Angeles Zoo opened in 1912 and closed in 1966 and its animals were transferred to the new Los Angeles Zoo two miles away. The animal enclosures, with the bars removed, were left as ruins; picnic benches or tables were installed in some of them for park visitors.

5 minutes

Autry Museum of the American West

4700 Western Heritage Way, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 90027-1462, California

We'll stop briefly at this historic museum founded by Hollywood’s singing cowboy Gene Autry. Located just across from the entrance to the L.A. Zoo in Griffith Park, you’ll find this 36,000-square foot complex with over 500,000 works of art and artifacts from the American frontier. Co-founded by musical western star Gene Autry in 1988, it’s natural that the museum would dedicate space to cool Western film memorabilia, from the pistols used by Steve McQueen to costumes from 2005’s Brokeback Mountain. There’s even a replica movie set of an Old Western town with storefronts. (Little-known fact: The first-ever feature-length movie filmed in Hollywood was a Western—the 1914 silent film The Squaw Man, directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The camera used to film it is here, too.)

10 minutes

Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens

5333 Zoo Dr, Los Angeles, 90027-1451, California

We stop for a photo opp in front of the massive steel gates at the landmark L.A. Zoo, which is home to thousands of animals – including one of the largest troops of chimpanzees in North America. Fun Fact: There’s a dedicated Zoo Magnet High School nearby offering 300 students a college preparatory curriculum focused on animal studies and biological sciences.

5 minutes

Travel Town

5200 Zoo Dr, , Los Angeles, 90027-1472, California

We ride right into Travel Town's "railroad petting zoo," and explore all the trains, big and small, along with the Museum and its fascinating history. Founded in the 1940s as an opportunity for the children of Los Angeles to "imagineer" themselves as engineers you'll find vintage automobiles as well as locomotives and freight cars.

20 minutes

Walt Disney's Carolwood Barn

5202 Zoo Dr, Los Angeles, 90027-1472, California

Walt Disney's Carolwood Barn is a cool little stop for the true Disney fan. This is a miniature barn that Walt himself built on his ranch pre-Disneyland. It was designed from his memory of the family's barn in Marceline, MO. IMPORTANT NOTE: only open on the third Sunday of each month from 11AM to 3PM, weather permitting

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Griffith Park

4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, 90027-1401, California

We'll head for Cathy's Corner, made recently famous by the movie LA LA Land with Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone’s dance sequence. This stop also offers a breathtaking view of the Valley, Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, the San Gabriel Mountains, Verdugo Hills and down into Royce's Canyon.
We’ll then stop at The Notch, which overlook Hollywoods, WeHo (West Hollywood) Palos Verdes, Santa Moncia, Century City. On a clear day you can also see Catalina Island, the Pacific Ocean and Santa Barbara. Here we’ll veer off to Del Valley Vista Drive headed for Beehive Rock and other mega vistas of LA. We’ll stop at Cedar Grove, a local micro-forest that attracts Hollywood hikers to explore its unexpected, woodsy wildlife. Located on a low-profile Los Feliz hillside, this hidden gem offers sweeping city views of Glendale to Downtown, and Hollywood to the sea.

50 minutes

Los Feliz

, , Los Angeles, California

Leave the park and wend through quiet, residential streets, looking at homes spanish colonials....

15 minutes

Los Angeles River Bike Path

Riverside Drive, , Los Angeles, California

We’ll head back to the LA River, stopping by the new La Kretz Crossing, also known as the North Atwater Bridge - a cable-stayed steel pedestrian bridge that crosses the Los Angeles River, linking Griffith Park with Atwater Village. We’ll pay a visit to a special Rose Gum tree, named by the LA Times as one of 10 beloved L.A. trees that Angelenos should enjoy — and protect at all costs. This Rose Gum, from Australia, is a cousin of the eucalyptuses, but from an older family line.

15 minutes

Atwater Village

Atwater Village, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA

We’ll ride down LA River, past equestrian stables, to another smaller bridge at Sunnynook known as "Love Lock Bridge" where visitors have attach personalized padlocks to its railing, like it’s more famous Parisian cousin. Rolling back into Atwater Village's quiet residential streets we’ll pay our respects to a designated “national champion” - a huge avocado tree over 100 years old that is the largest of its kind in the nation.

15 minutes

E Bike Tours Los Angeles

3306 Glendale Blvd #2, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA

Home Sweet Home - congratulations on an epic ride!

5 minutes