Destinations · California
Santa Monica
CA · 34.0210, -118.4810
From Santa Monica, California, Byway's registries place 1 scenic byway, 1 public land unit and 2 campgrounds within 30 miles.
Understand
Santa Monica developed as a seaside retreat at the turn of the 20th century. The railroad owners built the first version of the amusement park on Santa Monica pier as an attraction to fill empty train seats on weekends. Santa Monica grew into an urban, eclectic, and prosperous beach city whose real estate values are amongst the most pricey in the world. Santa Monica is a very desirable city whose people are drawn to its accessibility and its progressiveness as a community.
Day-trip loops
Baked loops for Santa Monica are growing. The weave below is measured today; plan a live day trip and the engine routes it now.
Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 · 14 mi · national
Public land
- Angeles National Forest · 19 mi
Campgrounds
- Lightning Point Group Campground · 29 mi
- Messenger Flats Campground · 30 mi
Lookouts
- Point Grandview · 15 mi
Named places
- Bodega · 1 mi
- Historic end of Route 66 · 1 mi
- Breakdance Showdown · 1 mi
- Original Muscle Beach · 1 mi
- Carousel Park · 1 mi
- Santa Monica Museum of Art · 1 mi
- The Ink Well · 1 mi
- Santa Monica Pier · 1 mi
A day out of Santa Monica, planned on real roads
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Pacific Palisades · 3 mi
- Los Angeles/West · 4 mi
- Culver City · 5 mi
- Beverly Hills · 6 mi
- Westchester · 6 mi
- Westside · 6 mi