Discover The Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden In Arcadia California

In The city of Arcadia California, right, botanical, next door to Pasadena

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will find The Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, a

beautiful and peaceful 127 acre botanical, botanical, garden and historical

site jointly operated by the Los Angeles Arboretum Foundation

and the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation.

The Arboretum is located across from the Santa Anita Race Track

is at 301 North Baldwin, botanical, Avenue, Arcadia, CA, 91007. It is open

daily from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm; admission closes at 4:30.



Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for seniors (62 and over),, botanical, $5

for students with ID, and $2.50 for children 5- 12. Children

under 5 and members are admitted free. Unlike most attractions

these days, parking is free.



In the middle of the Arboretum sits the four acre Baldwin Lake

which has been used in filming numerous movies and television

shows. "Johnny Weissmuller swam in LASCA Lagoon/Baldwin Lake, botanical, for

three decades as Tarzan and later Jungle Jim. A local news story

reported that he, in fact, set an unrecorded Olympic swim record

when, botanical, a cage of crocodiles was accidentally opened during filming

(Weissmuller beat the crocs to the, botanical, lake shore), botanical,, botanical, . Bob Hope, Bing

Crosby and Dorothy Lamour took up a month-long watery Baldwin

Lake residence in homes on stilts for the filming of Road to

Singapore in 1939, the same year the Douglas Fairbanks,

Jr.,/Madeleine Carroll film Safari managed to sink a paddlewheel

boat in the same lake. Undaunted, television's original "Fantasy

Island" lowered a pontoon plane by helicopter onto Baldwin Lake

and propelled it across the water to disembark visitors to Mr.

Roark's island paradise. For Alex Haley's, botanical, "Roots II", Baldwin

Lake became Kunta Kinte's river home in Africa."



Don't just peek through the windows of the Arboretum's Queen

Anne Cottage, come,, botanical, botanical, inside to see the historic Treasures! The

cottage, with its marble terrace, Victorian furnishings and

treasures provides a charming opportunity for the whole family.



Take the tram or walk through the gardens, spend the day being

mesmerized by all of the well tended plants, flowers, flowering

trees, cacti, succulents and the abundant wildlife (The

Arboretum is famous for it's roaming peafowl.). The rose gardens

alone are worth the visit. Stop and watch a wedding or see a

commercial being filmed. Take your kids to the Discovery Node

constructed out by Tule Pond, you'll find a variety of new

activities for children of all ages to enjoy and explore. Eat at

the Peacock Cafe. Sit down on a bench or under a tree, relax and

feel your cares floating away.



Visit the gift, botanical, shop where you can buy plants, gardening books,

photographs, paintings, botanical, and other items (the prices are very

inexpensive.).



The Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden is a place

where an individual or the whole family can spend the day and go

home feeling rested and at peace with the world.







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directory of links to city of Arcadia, California guides and

directories listing information, resources, services, things to

do, places to go, restaurants, churches and more.