The byway itself features Dodger Stadium, allowing you to partake of America's favorite pastime. The Arroyo Seco lies in the heart of Los Angeles, a recreational melting pot. Active recreation - such as hiking, swimming, horseback riding, bicycling, fishing, tennis, and golf - is matched by more passive pursuits like bird-watching, painting, and stargazing. Recreational: In the 1920s, under the urging of Charles Lummis, Pasadena and Los Angeles recognized the opportunities of the Arroyo Seco to provide recreational access to a growing metropolitan area. The canyon then continues south through Highland Park until it joins the Los Angeles River not far from Elysian Park.īyWays.Org Downtown Pasadena's Plaza Las Fuentes features such notables as a bronze sculpture shaped like a giant dragonfly and Pasadena City Hall, a soaring Italian Renaissance-inspired building. The great, long canyon of the Arroyo Seco extends from the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains north of Pasadena, southward along the western edge of South Pasadena. Arroyo Seco, Spanish for "dry stream," is geographically the most prominent feature of the northeastern Los Angeles landscape. Natural: While located in the second largest city in the United States, the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway is an urban oasis with natural areas, diverse parklands, and views of the Angeles National Forest in the snow-peaked San Gabriel Mountains to the north. The site contains more than 20 historic buildings, many of which can be viewed or are now museums. The Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway lies nearly adjacent to that original settlement, El Pueblo del Nuestra Signora, La Rena de Los Angeles. The megalopolis of Los Angeles actually began as just a small settlement of a colony of settlers from Mexico. The Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway is also California's first and only state historic parkway and is nationally recognized as one of the most significant roadways of the 20th century. Its significance in California's highway history is highlighted by its designation as an American Civil Engineering Landmark. Historical: The Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway was the prototype of the world-famous Los Angeles freeway system. Additionally, almost all of the buildings feature native Arroyo cobblestone trim, collected from the river of the valley.
Bungalows along the byway are built of all-natural materials and feature wide porches and long roof overhangs. The influence of the Arts and Crafts movement on the Arroyo Seco culture is most evident in the architecture of many of the structures along the byway. The movement gave rise to thriving enterprises, including furniture design and manufacturing, home plans and kits, ceramics, glasswork, metalwork, and textiles. Followers of the movement built their own houses out of as many natural materials as possible and handcrafted as much of their environment as possible.īy the late 1890s, the movement had worked its way to America, having significant influence on the Arroyo culture throughout the first two decades of the 20th century. The Arts and Crafts movement started in the United Kingdom between the late 1850s and early 1860s and was characterized by a disregard for industrialization. Read on to learn more about the unique qualities of the West's first freeway.Ĭultural: The Arroyo Seco was the center for the Arts and Crafts movement on the West Coast and is one of four internationally recognized centers of the movement in America. The parkway was envisioned both as a scenic pleasure road traversing the Arroyo Seco and as a vital traffic conduit linking the expanding cities of Pasadena and Los Angeles. Conceived in the parkway tradition with its gentle curves, lush landscape, and scenic vistas, the parkway also incorporated modern elements that laid the groundwork for the California freeway system.Ĭombining ideas reminiscent of the older parkway tradition with those of modern freeway design, the Arroyo Seco Parkway (also called the Pasadena Freeway or State Route 110) was the first divided-lane, high-speed, limited-access road in the urban western United States.
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