we love doing things with our dog and of
course i've been
in los angeles for i don't know six
months
out of the year this uh past year
and uh kanye and i together we have
discovered a lot of pet friendly
or dog friendly things to do around the
los angeles area so
i thought we share our top 12 most
favorite things to do around here and
they're all free
number one vasquez rocks natural area i
have never heard of this
area crystal found out about it and when
she showed me the location i first
didn't even think it was part of la
but it is yeah it's they consider it
part of l.a still it's about 40 minutes
from downtown l.a
very accessible though easy to get to
and very dog friendly
so they have these cool rock formations
there that were
developed by you know erosions and all
that over time the dogs can go up like
these 45 degree angle rocks
and there's also like lots of cool
trails around there that you could do
you may have even seen these rocks too
they're actually um used a lot in
tv shows and movies for example
westworld the most famous one i think is
star trek
but yeah so if you have seen any of
those shows you will most likely
recognize these rocks it's hard to
not recognize because they are pretty
distinct the shape
and also on the way there the drive was
gorgeous so it goes by
really fast yeah so awesome awesome
place to
go on a little adventure with your dogs
so next on the list is rosie's dog beach
there's a lot of dog beaches around los
angeles but
not a lot of off-leash dog beaches in
fact i think this was the only one
this is actually off leash in l.a county
yeah so
our dogs love the beach i would say kuma
loves the beach more than
zoey does they both have fun yeah but
since kuma's from florida and she's used
to like these beach dog parks all the
time
she really loved this place and when
kuma has fun
zoe will have fun too and they'll like
run and chase each other around for
i don't know forever
but it's a very large beach area for
dogs
very well maintained has like some dog
way stations for you
and then there's also um restroom
facilities for humans too
so very comfortable and it's right in
the middle of downtown long beach
next is sepulveda basin off leash dog
park again this is another one where
crystal found that i'm like what there's
an agility course here
yeah i'm all about finding agility
courses at dog parks because you know
dog parks are usually all the same
you know it's like some grassy area or
in like california's case a lot of dirt
areas yeah and if your dogs like playing
fetch that's fantastic but both of our
dogs aren't
really that into fetch they are more
into
stuff like uh agility yeah
like a common mouth and we both train
them in agility so they know what
they're doing and they really enjoy it
yeah so there's three different dog
parks here so
they're all fenced and there's a large
dog park area a small dog park area and
a tinted
dog park area and i'm so glad they have
that because zoe is very timid she
doesn't look like it
but she is yeah cause we went to the dog
large dog park first but then zoey was
you know a little bit afraid of the big
dog so we went to the timid dog side
and she was very comfortable there and
all three of these dog parks
have the agility courses the same ones
so everybody
gets you know the agility courses which
is great because then you don't have to
fight over them
but yeah they have a lot of fun with
these agility courses so we loved taking
them there
hollywood walk of fame is another one
that you could do with your dogs
um it's free as well so uh as everybody
knows well a lot of people
know the hollywood walk of fame has all
those famous stars with the celebrity
names
on the cement so as you're walking then
you can see like oh there's johnny depp
and there's tom cruise yeah and it's all
over hollywood boulevard and basically
when you're walking on the sidewalk
you're just seeing stars
all along the street or the sidewalk so
i mean you may not even know that you
are going to be an area where there's
going to be a star because it's not just
one section literally it's just
miles of like stars down the street so
if there's a particular one you want to
find
definitely look up the map online
because there's a lot of them
yeah i think there's like over 2 000
yeah something like something crazy like
that so and i think they've actually had
to start using another street because
they're adding on so many stars
and there's also an outdoor mall there
and some of the shops there are dog
friendly as well because we walked by
hot topic i believe it was and the sales
associate came out i was like i love
your dogs they're more than welcome out
here if you
yeah that was pretty funny and then i
didn't realize until later
so that complex is called hollywood and
highland and
um we noticed the hollywood sign and
crystal's like oh that's so beautiful
the architect who designed that actually
did that on purpose so that the
hollywood sign would be framed there
perfectly so i was like oh that's why
crystal noticed it
next is lake hollywood park and i've
always wanted to know
like how to get to the hollywood slime
without having a hike and i think this
is the best option
and it's pet friendly yeah when i was
doing research on
you know dog friendly things to do that
was one of the things that came up and
even though it's just like this park
it's a really nice
part of the park yeah really well
maintained the grass is super bright
green
which is so hard to find during the
winter months in california too
it's great photo ops with the hollywood
sign in the background
and it's very close and then you have
like that nice grassy area on the bottom
so very very perfect for that if you
want a photo with a hollywood sign
that's the place to go
you don't even have to hike i mean you
literally just park and you're there so
without the hiking
yeah i think you can get closer but if
you don't want to do that you know hike
the strenuous hiking that's the great
place to go yeah
and also if you want we saw a lot of
families are picnicking so if you want
to spend the you know afternoon there
with your dogs picnicking with the
hollywood sign in the back
and then also if you go um there's a
short walk up hill just like around the
corner
and you can get another view of the
hollywood sign and we noticed a lot more
people went there
to take a picture with the hollywood
sign but if you want a more dog friendly
thing to do
the park area is a nicer place cherry
canyon park is next on our list
and it's a really cool area there's two
sides to
the cherry canyon park the more uh
popular one is the one where you go
uphill and i think they call it like the
cherry canyon
motorway but it's like out in the open
there's no shade so if it's a sunny warm
day
it might not be great for your dogs like
kuma so my dog could not make it because
it was just like way too hot
but there's another side down below
where you can go in a more shaded area
we enjoyed this a lot more and it's
called owl trail
owl trail is very beautiful very well
shaded lots of tall trees everywhere
and i think the dogs enjoyed that hike a
lot more i think so
yeah and i i kind of want to say this is
probably a hidden gem
it didn't really look like there were
tourists there it's just like locals and
there's actually no parking
it's really just street parking in this
neighborhood and you kind of go up a
hill
and even when we're doing research this
never came up anywhere
on the list so um if you want to go
somewhere a little bit
secluded i would definitely recommend
cherry canyon
haha manga watershed park is another one
of those places i think is more for
locals so you don't really see tourists
here either
and i love it here because it's so huge
and you get two different sides you get
like the upper part is really shaded
and then the other part is like this
fast open space and this and
if you come here during the winter or
the colder months the sunsets here
are spectacular a lot a lot of space for
your dogs to run around here
yeah we're actually at ha ha manga park
right now or at one of the picnic tables
cause they have a lot of picnic tables
barbecue pits a lot of horses go around
here too they have like trails for
horses and that's the trail the same
trails that we go on with the dogs
but yeah the dogs absolutely love it
just be warned that your dogs will get
dusty because
there's a lot of very dusty here yeah so
next on our list is another dog park
uh fletcher fetch dog park it's actually
fairly new
it opened in october 2020 and
we took the dogs here because again they
have agility courses
and they have the small dog park side
and a large dog park side
unfortunately at the time we went the
small dark park was closed
because they were seating the grass
because it was getting really muddy and
all the green of the grass was gone so
we went to the large dog park side which
is fine and they still had some agility
courses there
but um the one agility course uh item
that we were looking forward to
was the seesaw with the teeter-totter to
for the dogs to practice on
and they only have it on the small dog i
wonder why they didn't have it on the
big side
i was a little bit disappointed in that
but other than that this park is
pretty cute even the benches were like a
shape of a dog bone
um the area had a basketball court
playground area
it's a really cool area if you want to
you know try out another agility course
for your dog
runyon canyon is also on our list and
you've probably seen this
on all of the dog lists and i will say i
was
a little bit hesitant to go because i've
been before before i had
my dog and i was like oh i don't know
but crystal really wanted to go
and i'm so glad she convinced me to go
because i
really enjoyed it even after having kind
of like negative thoughts about it and i
came out thinking like you know what i
don't feel so negative about this place
anymore
so i i quite enjoyed it you get really
great views of downtown los angeles
um lots of dog owners there and dogs my
goodness
a lot you know what maybe that's what
the problem was i didn't have a dog then
so maybe that's why i didn't enjoy it
so maybe so now if you have a dog this
is a great place to go
next on our list is a little bit
different it's for people who don't
really want to do outdoor
like hiking type stuff or parks and want
to do more shopping
we recommend the grove or the farmer's
market which is in the same area it's a
really pretty area
and your dogs get to do a lot of
smelling and exploring and they do have
a grassy area where you could sit down
and picnic if you wanted to
the dogs actually can't go into the
store but they can walk around the
farmer's market
so you can order food while you have
your dog with you or if you have two
people with you
you know one of them can go shopping and
the other can just relax they have a lot
of like outdoor tables there too and as
candy mentioned the grassy area where
you can just relax and
a nice fountain area as well so next is
one of our favorite places
it's angelus national forest and we just
recently went here
and went up angeles crest highway so you
go up the sand great barrel mountains
and the reason why we wanted to go up
here was because we found
snow so yeah we went in december
when it was like a little bit colder in
the temperatures
and it snowed a couple days before we
went
and one of candy's neighbors again she
has some great neighbors
that told her that there was snow up
there so we went
up to a stop called red box picnic area
and that's where
it stops up on the hill there's more
stops along the way you can continue
on the angels pressed highway usually
but when it snows they block it off and
you can only go up to red box
and redbox is where we found the snow i
was so excited probably more excited
than zoe
to see snow definitely wear snow boots
or snow pants if you want to really get
in the snow with the dogs
also along the way they have lots of
great vista points so we took lots of
great pictures around there
and they have an awesome view of
downtown los angeles in the distance
and some really great sunset views too
so if you're into that kind of thing
definitely stop by here healthy spa is
another one that's not about dog parks
or going hiking it's an actual pet store
and i first heard about them through a
friend and we actually met on instagram
through our dogs
she invited me to a dog event which i
was like okay that's
i've never been to a dog event i was
just so impressed they gave me
a treat bag let me so many treats in
there for zoe
and then you know zoe got a puppetini
and they had like all these tables of
like appetizers for your dogs
it was decorated so well it almost looks
like human food and they had food there
for humans too
to enjoy but i was just so impressed by
the presentation
and they had photo booths there with
professional photographers i can't say
enough about like how fun these dog
events are
and you get to meet other dog owners
yeah it's and it's great for your dog
too to socialize them with other pets
there
i always look forward to these events um
most of them are free sometimes
um they have like a donation um but
i mean again like it's very inexpensive
when that does happen you just like ten
dollars or something candy keeps up with
their newsletters
so if you're interested in these events
make sure you sign up for it yeah
and that's our list of things to do in
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