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Zuma Beach
Malibu CA
~1.14 miles from Malibu city center
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Zuma Beach is a County beach located at 30000 Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) in Malibu, California. One of the largest and most popular beaches in the Los Angeles County, Zuma is known for its long, wide sands and excellent surf. It consistently ranks among the healthiest beaches for clean water conditions in Los Angeles County.Zuma is protected by the Lifeguard unit of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, with 14 lifeguard towers on the sands proper and one of four L.A. County Section Headquarters located at the center of the beach. Like all beaches with good surf, Zuma has its share of rip currents. Visitors are encouraged not to swim or surf in front of the Lifeguard Headquarters between Towers 8 and 9, an area particularly prone to rip currents. In fact, rip currents are so prevale...
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Pepperdine University
24255 Pacific Coast Hwy Malibu CA - 310-506-4000
~6.36 miles from Malibu city center
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Pepperdine University is an independent, private, medium-sized university affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The university's 830-acre campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, California, United States, is the location for Seaver College, the School of Law, the Graduate School of Education and Psychology, the Graziadio School of Business and Management, and the School of Public Policy. Courses are taught in Malibu, at six graduate campuses in southern California, and at international campuses in Germany, England, Italy, China, Switzerland, and Argentina.
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Malibu
Los Angeles CA
~6.83 miles from Malibu city center
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Malibu is an affluent city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population is 12,575.The city of Malibu is a 21-mile (34 km) strip of Pacific coastline; a beachfront community famous for its warm, sandy beaches, and for being the home of countless movie stars and others associated with the Southern California entertainment industries. Most Malibu residents live within a few hundred yards of Pacific Coast Highway (State Route 1), which traverses the city, with some residents living up to a mile away from the beach up narrow canyons; the city is also bounded (more or less) by Topanga Canyon to the east, the Santa Monica Mountains to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the south, and Ventura County to the west. Its beaches include Surfrider B...
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Downtown Westlake Village (Neighborhood)
Westlake Village CA
~9.91 miles from Malibu city center
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Downtown Agoura Hills (Neighborhood)
Agoura Hills CA
~10.13 miles from Malibu city center
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Downtown is the commercial and geographic heart of Agoura Hills, California a district built mainly in the 1970s to replace the city's old heart in what is now the Historic Quarter.Downtown features a number of shopping centers, focused on Thousand Oaks Blvd. and Kanan Rd., the area's two main thoroughfares. Although in the past few decades much of the city's entertainment life had moved south to Malibu Junction, leaving a great deal of urban decay behind, there is a current renaissance of entertainment in downtown, fueled by the opening and redesign of a number of restaurants and cafes, as well as the construction boom in the South End.Downtown is bordered by Upper Downtown to the north, East Agoura to the southeast, South End to the south, Midtown to the southwest, and Morrison Ranch...
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California Art Institute
2977 Willow Lane Westlake Village CA - 805-496-6906
~11.35 miles from Malibu city center
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Professional Art School in a beautiful, rustic setting. The nation's first art institute to offer BFAs and MFAs in both the visual and performing arts, CalArts is dedicated to training and nurturing the next generation of professional artists, fostering brilliance and innovation within the broadest context possible. Emphasis is placed on new and experimental work and students are admitted solely on the basis of artistic ability. To encourage innovation and experimentation, CalArts' six schools--Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music and Theater--are all housed under one roof in a unique, five-story building with the equivalent of 11 acres of square footage in Valencia, California, just 30 minutes north of downtown Los Angeles.
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Downtown Thousand Oaks (Neighborhood)
Thousand Oaks CA
~12.77 miles from Malibu city center
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Downtown Calabasas (Neighborhood)
Calabasas CA
~13.65 miles from Malibu city center
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Getty Villa
Los Angeles CA
~14.15 miles from Malibu city center
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The Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, California, USA, is one of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum. The Getty Villa is an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome and Etruria.The Villa is frequently and erroneously said to be in the city of Malibu, but most of the site is actually in the City of Los Angeles in the community of Pacific Palisades. In fact, the Malibu city border begins a mile west of the Villa. The museum itself perpetuates this error, to the irritation of Palisades residents
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Woodland Hills (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~15.29 miles from Malibu city center
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Woodland Hills is a district in the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. It was originally named Girard.Woodland Hills is located in the southwestern area of the San Fernando Valley, northeast of Calabasas and west of Tarzana. To the north Woodland Hills is bordered by West Hills, Canoga Park, and Winnetka. Some neighborhoods are in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. Running east-west through the community is U.S. Route 101 (Ventura Freeway) and Ventura Boulevard, which starts in Woodland Hills and intersects Valley Circle Boulevard.
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Pacific Palisades (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~15.48 miles from Malibu city center
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Pacific Palisades is a district within the U.S. city of Los Angeles, California, located between Brentwood to the east, Malibu to the west, Santa Monica to the southeast, the Santa Monica Bay to the southwest, and the Santa Monica Mountains to the north. The area currently has about 27,000 residents. It is a very affluent and primarily residential area, with a mixture of large private homes, small (usually older) houses, condominiums, and apartments. Every 4th of July, the Chamber of Commerce sponsors day-long events which include a 5K and 10 K Run, a parade down Sunset Boulevard, and a fireworks display at Palisades High School football field. It also includes some large parklands and many hiking trails. The Pacific Palisades is known as "Where The Mountains Meet the Sea" and is home to n...
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West Hills (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~16.64 miles from Malibu city center
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West Hills is a district in the western San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles in California, United States.West Hills is bordered by the Chatsworth and Chatsworth Reservoir to the north, Canoga Park to the east, Woodland Hills to the south, Hidden Hills to the southwest, and the Simi Hills with the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve and Bell Canyon to the west. The community's postal codes are 91307 and 91304.In 1987, the City of Los Angeles recognized the following description of the boundaries of West Hills: "Starting at the centerline intersections of Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Nordhoff Street, westward down the centerline of Nordhoff extended in a straight line to the city limits of the City of Los Angeles; thence southward, following the border of ...
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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Simi Valley - Thousand Oaks CA
~17.53 miles from Malibu city center
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The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs is the presidential library and final resting place of Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. Designed by Hugh Stubbins and Associates, the library is located in Simi Valley, California, about 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Downtown Los Angeles and 15 miles (24 km) west of Chatsworth. The library may be accessed by driving to the Olsen Road exit of State Route 23, which connects to the nearby Ronald Reagan Freeway, State Route 118.The Reagan Library is the largest of the twelve federally funded presidential libraries. The street address, 40 Presidential Drive, is numbered in honor of Reagan's place as the 40th President.
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Tarzana (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~17.65 miles from Malibu city center
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Tarzana (pronounced /t?r'zæn?/) is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California, United States.Tarzana, a district of Los Angeles, is surrounded by Reseda to the north, Woodland Hills to the west, Encino to the east, and the Santa Monica Mountains (also a part of Los Angeles) to the south. Major roads in Tarzana include Reseda Boulevard, Tampa Avenue, Wilbur Avenue, Burbank Boulevard, and Ventura Boulevard, the commercial backbone of the southern San Fernando Valley,Most of Tarzana's inhabitants live in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains south of Ventura Boulevard. North of the Ventura Freeway, there is a uniquely designed area meant to emulate a more rural setting called Melody Acres. Tarzana contains two country clubs (with golf cours...
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Santa Monica Pier
Los Angeles
~17.91 miles from Malibu city center
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The Santa Monica Pier is located at the foot of Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica, California and is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark.The pier contains Pacific Park, a family amusement park with a large Ferris wheel. It also has a carousel from the 1920s, an aquarium, shops, entertainers, an arcade, a trapeze school, a pub, and restaurants. The end of the pier is a popular location for anglers.Santa Monica has had several piers over the years, however the current Santa Monica Pier is actually two adjoining piers that long had separate owners. The long, narrow Municipal Pier opened 9 September 1909, primarily to carry sewer pipes beyond the breakers, and had no amenities. The short, wide adjoining Pleasure Pier to the south, a.k.a. Newcomb Pier, was built in 1916 by Charles I. D. Lo...
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Canoga Park (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~17.97 miles from Malibu city center
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Canoga Park (formerly known as Owensmouth) is a section of the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, United States about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northwest of Downtown Los Angeles.It is bordered by Woodland Hills on the south, West Hills on the west, Chatsworth on the north, and Winnetka on the east.
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Santa Monica/Venice
Los Angeles CA
~18.03 miles from Malibu city center
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Strathearn Historical Park
Simi Valley CA
~18.60 miles from Malibu city center
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The Strathearn Valley Historical Park and Museum opened in 1969 and is located in the Strathearn home built in 1892-3. The 6.25 acre park encompasses a Chumash Indian Village, several barns, a library, general store and Colony House.Hobbies & Activities category: Western hemisphere native art, artifacts; Historical museum; Provincial or municipal park; National Register of Buildings
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Rancho Simi
Simi Valley CA
~18.63 miles from Malibu city center
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Rancho Simi, also known as Rancho San José de Nuestra Senora de Altagarcia y Simi, was a 113,009-acre (457 km2) Spanish land grant in eastern Ventura and western Los Angeles counties given in 1795 to Francisco Javier Pico and his two brothers, Patricio Pico and Miguel Pico by Governor Diego de Borica. The name derives from Shimiji, the name of the Chumash village here before the Spanish
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Brentwood (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~18.77 miles from Malibu city center
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Brentwood is a district in western Los Angeles, California, United States; it should not be confused with Brentwood, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California or the Brentwood area of Victorville, California.Brentwood is located at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains, bounded by the San Diego Freeway on the east, Wilshire Boulevard on the south, the Santa Monica city limits on the southwest, the border of Topanga State Park on the west and Mulholland Drive along the ridgeline of the mountains on the north.Nearby neighborhoods and cities include Pacific Palisades on the west, Santa Monica on the south, West Los Angeles and Sawtelle on the southeast, Westwood on the east, Bel-Air on the northeast and Encino on the north.Mail to the Brentwood district is addres...
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Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center
Simi Valley CA
~18.88 miles from Malibu city center
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Santa Monica (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~18.90 miles from Malibu city center
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Santa Monica is a city in western Los Angeles County, California, USA. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and Venice on the southeast.The Census Bureau 2008 population estimate for Santa Monica is 87,664. Santa Monica is named for Saint Monica of Hippo because the area on which the city is now located was first visited by Spaniards on her feast day. In the skateboard and surfing communities, Santa Monica's Ocean Park neighborhood (and the neighboring section of Venice) is referred to as Dogtown.Because of its agreeable climate, Santa Monica had become a famed resort town by the early 20th century. The city has expe...
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Venice Beach
Los Angeles CA
~18.91 miles from Malibu city center
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Venice Beach includes the beach, the promenade that runs parallel to the beach ("Ocean Front Walk" or just "the boardwalk"), Muscle Beach, the handball courts, the paddle tennis courts, Skate Dancing plaza, the numerous beach volleyball courts, the bike trail and the businesses on Ocean Front Walk. The basketball courts in Venice are renowned across the country for their high level of streetball; numerous NBA players developed their games or recruited on these courts.Along the southern portion of the beach, at the end of Washington Boulevard, is the Venice Fishing Pier. A 1,310-foot (400 m) concrete structure, it first opened in 1964, was closed in 1983 due to El Niño storm damage, and re-opened in the mid-1990s. On December 21, 2005, the pier again suffered damage when waves from an u...
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Winnetka (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~19.12 miles from Malibu city center
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Winnetka is a district in the San Fernando Valley in the City of Los Angeles. It is in the west-central San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County, California.Winnetka is served by the Orange Line bus service.Winnetka is located next to Canoga Park on the west, Woodland Hills on the south, Chatsworth to the north, and Reseda to the east. Corbin Avenue is the eastern boundary, DeSoto Avenue is the western boundary, Victory Boulevard is the southern boundary, and Nordhoff Street is the northern boundary. It is bordered by the Southern Pacific Coast Line railroad to the north and the Los Angeles River to the south. Major thoroughfares include Winnetka Avenue, Mason Avenue, Roscoe Boulevard, Sherman Way, Saticoy Street, Parthenia Street and Vanowen Street. The postal ZIP code is 91306, ...
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Venice Ocean Front Walk
Los Angeles CA
~19.22 miles from Malibu city center
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This has long been one of L.A.'s most colorful areas and a must-visit for any first-time tourist. Founded at the turn of the last century, Venice was a development inspired by its Italian namesake. Authentic gondolas plied miles of inland waterways lined with rococo palaces. In the 1950s, Venice became the stomping grounds of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and other Beats. In the 1960s, this was the epicenter of L.A.'s hippie scene.Today, Venice is still one of the world's most engaging bohemian locales. It's not an exaggeration to say that no visit to L.A. would be complete without a stroll along the famous paved beach path, an almost surreal assemblage of every L.A. stereotype -- and then some. Among stalls and stands selling cheap sunglasses, Mexican blankets, a...
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Venice Skill Center
611 5th Ave Venice CA - 310-392-4153
~19.30 miles from Malibu city center
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www.lausd.net611 5th AvenueVenice, CA 90291(310) 392-4153
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Downtown Camarillo (Neighborhood)
Ventura - Oxnard CA
~19.67 miles from Malibu city center
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Bottle Village
Los Angeles CA
~19.87 miles from Malibu city center
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This assemblage is one of California's Twentieth Century Folk Art Environments. In 1956, Tressa Prisbrey, then nearly 60 years old, started building a "village" of shrines, walkways, sculptures, and buildings from recycled items and discards from the local landfill. She worked for 25 years creating one structure after another to house her collections. Bottle Village is California Historical Landmark number 939. Is ia also a Ventura County Cultural Landmark, and has historic designation from the City of Simi Valley. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.The village is located at 4595 Cochran Street, Simi Valley and viewable from the sidewalk. It was officially closed in 1984 and severely damaged during the 1994 Northridge Earthquake.
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Getty Museum (Paul J.)
Los Angeles
~19.97 miles from Malibu city center
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The J. Paul Getty Museum, a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, is an art museum. It has two locations, one at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California and one at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California. The museum at the Getty Center contains "Western art from the Middle Ages to the present"; its estimated 1.3 million visitors annually makes it one of the most visited museums in the United States. The museum at the Getty Villa contains art from "ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria"
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Venice (Neighborhood)
Los Angeles CA
~19.98 miles from Malibu city center
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Venice is a district on the Westside of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is known for its canals, beaches and circus-like Ocean Front Walk, that features performers, fortune-tellers and vendors. Throughout the summer months, the boardwalk is actively entertaining, and this tradition continues on weekends in the winter. It is an important tourist attraction in Southern California, and has retained its popularity in part because it is an attractive location for walking and bicycling. It was home to some of Los Angeles' early beat poets and artists and has served as important cultural center of the city.Venice is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the southwest, by the unincorporated Marina Del Rey on the southeast, by Culver City on the east, by the Los Angeles neighborhood of Mar ...
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