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Echo Park Historical Society Lake Walking Tour

The Echo Park Historical Society is hosting its Echo Park Lake Walking Tour on Sunday, September 26 (originally scheduled for September 25). The tour starts at 10:00 am and will include some of the neighborhood’s most prominent landmarks, such as Jensen’s Recreation Center, Angelus Temple and, of course, the Lake.

The tour takes about two hours to complete and includes several stairways. Building interiors are not included. Reservations required, and are free for EPHS members but we ask a $5 donation for all others. For more tour information, please call (323) 860-8874 or click here to e-mail your reservation. Include your name, the number of people in your group, your phone number and the name and date of the tour.

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Get Ready for The Big Parade II

Feeling in shape (or out of shape) these days? Maybe it’s your time to join your neighbors for a free two-day, 35 mile walk throughout Los Angeles from Saturday, June 12 through Sunday, June 13.

The Big Parade is a two-day walk through Los Angeles. It starts at the famous Angel’s Flight Stairs, downtown, and works its way west, through multiple neighborhoods, stopping at the famous Music Box Stairs in Silver Lake – named after Laurel & Hardy’s Oscar-winning 1932 short film – for an overnight campout. Then, we continue through the stairways of Silver Lake, on to the Franklin Hills and Los Feliz. We traverse Griffith Park, and then walk through the Beachwood Canyon/Hollywoodland neighborhood, all the way to the Hollywood Sign.

Anyone can come along – for an hour, a day, or the whole hike. The group had a couple of practice hikes at the end of May to get everyone geared up and in shape, but there may just be another one this weekend (June 5 or 6) before the big day. Visit The Big Parade website for more information on those practice hikes and the event.

We will post the route map as soon as the event organizers do (camping sites are also being finalized). For now, feel free to get yourself geared up on your own by taking a tour of some Echo Park stairways.

Click here to download the PDF flyer for the event.

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Echo Park Lake Walking Tour Tomorrow

The Echo Park Historical Society is hosting its Echo Park Lake Walking Tour tomorrow, Saturday, April 24 at 10:00 am.

According to the EPHS website, the tour will include “some of the neighborhood’s most prominent landmarks, such as Jensen’s Recreation Center, Angelus Temple and, of course, the lake. The tour takes about two hours to complete and includes several stairways. Building interiors are not included. Reservations required. The tours are free for EPHS members; we ask a $5 donation of all others.”

Make your reservation by calling (323) 860-8874, or e-mail your name, the number of people in your group, your phone number and the name and date of the tour.

The tour starts at the Echo Park Lake Boathouse, located at 751 Echo Park Ave.

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