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5801 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
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+1 323 934 7243
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Neighborhood :
La Brea & Miracle Mile
http://www.tarpits.org/education/guide/index.html - Mon to Fri from 09:30 AM to 05:00 PM,Sat to Sun from 10:00 AM to 05:00 PM
Once upon a time, Rancho La Brea was only a Mexican land grant. Now a park, the tar pits have been the world's richest deposit of Ice Age fossils. More than 40,000 years ago mammoths, saber-toothed cats and dire wolves freely roamed the Los Angeles basin and became entrapped in the natural asphalt of the tar pits. During the summer months, visitors can observe the ongoing excavation from Pit 91. A visit to the on-site Page Museum is a must.
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*** A beautiful day @ the La Brea Pits.*** "Brasilian Day in LA" Festival was held here today from Noon to 5p, 12Sept'09. I met friends, we sat on a...
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Fun for the entire family, young and old.
We visited the La Brea Tar Pits today and it was great fun. I'm fifty-eight and took my nine year old niece and my brother and sister to the t...
Weird thing to find in the middle of a major city
Nestled between a Staples and a Starbucks, why, it's a pit of tar from which they've excavated the remains of all kinds of unfortunate pre-hist...
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The tar pits are fun both inside and out. For the price, you would think the musuem would be larger, but it is still intresting. This is a grea...
Tarpit delight
Excellent visit. Exciting to see actual tarpits thatare being excavated and smell the tar bubblingand oozing just like years ago. Inside the ...
Amazing
It was a very exiting and interesting place to go, being able to study creatures of the Ice Age. I can't wait for a return trip
Amazing Contrast
An amazing conrast of true scientific and educational value in the middle of the most vulgar, cras and commercialzed place in the US (outside o...
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Don't expect to be blown away
I went with low expectations and surprisingly had a good time. I actually followed a tour group for about 15 minutes and got some free informa...
Fun and educational
Very interesting to see, kid friendly, but kind of small. I took my 3 yr old daughter there and we both enjoyed it especially after the exhibit...
Not thrilling
As a child growing up in LA during the 60's-70's, the tar pits were fascinating...a glimpse into the wonderful world of imagination. Through t...
A great disappointment
As a Brit making a flying visit to the USA, I knew of the Tar Pits only having seen them in the film Volcano, and I didn't have time to visit t...
Worth the Stop by Gail S. at InsiderPages
I agree, this has become a bit of a tourist trap in the line of all things L.A., but it is still very educational and worth a trip. They have s...
The gooey tar pits draw big crowds, while the adjacent George C. Page museum is mostly considered a side trip.
Features Most of the year, the pits seem like innocent water-filled pools. However, the exhibits demonstrate the harsh truth about the form
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