Los Angeles Events

Annual Events

Address: 100 Universal City Plz, Universal City, CA 91608 Category: Sports Event - Running Dates: May 25, 2009 User rating:      (Rate It!)    |    Add to a Suitcase

Drawing 25,000 runners each year and more than a million spectators, this large race is a prominent city event. Since 1986, it has tested the competitive mettle of people from around the world, who pass by the city's best-known landmarks and a host of parties and live entertainments along the way. The course has been...

Address: 647 N San Vicente Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069 Category: Fair / Festival - Cultural Dates: June 12 - June 14, 2009 User rating:      (Rate It!)    |    Add to a Suitcase

Affirming the role and presence of gay men and women in LA, this lively series of events seeks to represent the diversity of the gay community and to give a voice to all. Held since 1970, LA Pride draws more than 100,000 people each year and features a fun-filled parade and lots of live shows and music. Various stages...

Address: Pomona Fairplex • 1101 W McKinley Ave, Pomona, CA 91768 Category: Fair / Festival - State / County Dates: September 5 - October 4, 2009 User rating:      (Rate It!)    |    Add to a Suitcase

One of the nation's largest county fairs, this LA mainstay has been going strong since 1922. Northeast of the city on the county's far outskirts, the annual attraction draws more than a million visitors each year. They come for carnival rides, contests galore, livestock exhibitions, agriculture displays, and horse...

Address: Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069 Category: Fair / Festival - Holiday / Seasonal Dates: October 31, 2009 User rating:      (Rate It!)    |    Add to a Suitcase

What began as a small neighborhood celebration in 1987 has burgeoned into a huge extravaganza attracting nearly a half-million revelers each year. A portion of Santa Monica Boulevard is closed to accommodate all the costumed participants and onlookers, who can't get enough of the creativity, eccentricity, and...

Address: 430 W Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA Category: Fair / Festival - Holiday / Seasonal Dates: January 1, 2010 User rating:      (Rate It!)    |    Add to a Suitcase

If you plan to be in LA during the winter holiday season, this traditional event is definitely worth seeing in person. Television cannot do justice to the intricacies of today's floats, decorated with millions of flowers and tons of natural materials like leaves and bark. In fact, each individual float uses more...