Pasadena Sun
Nobody walks in L.A.? Ridiculous! This is one in a series of articles exploring the many opportunities for walking in (and around) a city of 3.8 million.
ARROYO WALK
Distance: 3 to 7 miles
Duration: 1 to 2.5 hours
Difficulty: 1
Transportation: Free parking; Metro bus: Nos. 176, 177
This is a lovely country-in-the-city walk, flat and undemanding, offering rare views of the untamed river — less than five minutes from Old Town Pasadena.
The 22-mile-long Arroyo Seco, a river-bed canyon that begins in the San Gabriel Mountains and runs into the Los Angeles River, was a lot of things before it became home to the world's first freeway and a concrete ditch with water in it.
Today it's a great hiking opportunity.
Photo: the San Rafael Bridge/Charles Fleming, Pasadena Sun
