La Cañada Flintridge

La Cañada Flintridge is a city of about 20,000 people (2018) at the extreme northwest end of the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California.

Understand
La Cañada Flintridge is famous for its fancy and rather pricey homes. It is one of the nicer communities in Los Angeles County. It sits against the Angeles Crest Forest to the north and is split in half by the 210 freeway. La Cañada is a suburban, primarily residential community with few tourist attractions.

Get in
The 210 freeway runs through La Cañada and connects it to such places as Altadena and Pasadena to the east and La Crescenta to the west. The 2 freeway links the city to Glendale and inner Los Angeles to the south and ends in La Cañada, and the 2 continues (as a two-lane highway) northward through Angeles National Forest where it can be taken to such places as Palmdale and Wrightwood.

See

 * Angeles National Forest
 * Angeles National Forest
 * Angeles National Forest

Do

 * La Canada Rose Float Volunteer One of 6 remaining self-built floats in the annual Rose Parade on January 1st of each year, this float requires year round work from volunteers to create unique and colorful designs. You can construct the float from metal to flowers all year on Saturdays from 9am-2pm at the Valley Water Company. Decoration requires signups online but takes place all day from December 26th to December 31st.

Go next

 * Rose Bowl - The Pasadena Rose Bowl, home of the UCLA football team, the annual Rose Bowl football game and the 1984 Olympic Soccer Finals is only minutes away.