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The city behind the course

A Los Angeles weekend

Start with the places the marathon actually passes.

The route's local signatures

Meet the architecture and landscape along the course. Use these places to get to know the city before deciding how to spend your time on your feet.

Los Angeles City Hall

Near mile 2.6

Built into the flyover as a race-specific local landmark. The model rises about 138 meters.

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Near mile 4.0

Built into the flyover as a race-specific local landmark. The model rises about 40 meters.

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels

Near mile 4.3

Built into the flyover as a race-specific local landmark. The model rises about 34 meters.

Angelus Temple

Near mile 6.0

Built into the flyover as a race-specific local landmark. The model rises about 38 meters.

Capitol Records Building

Near mile 10.5

Built into the flyover as a race-specific local landmark. The model rises about 28 meters.

TCL Chinese Theatre

Near mile 11.4

Built into the flyover as a race-specific local landmark. The model rises about 27 meters.

Chateau Marmont

Near mile 13.2

Built into the flyover as a race-specific local landmark. The model rises about 25 meters.

Beverly Wilshire Hotel

Near mile 17.0

Built into the flyover as a race-specific local landmark. The model rises about 38 meters.

A weekend rhythm that protects race day

  1. Arrival. Base your first walk on the real start and finish geometry, then inspect the final approach in the route map.
  2. Packet pickup. Go to ASICS LA Marathon Expo, Dodger Stadium, Lot G inside its published window; save the final hours offline.
  3. The day before. Choose one course landmark, keep the outing short, and finish your feet-up time early.
  4. Race day. Follow the transportation plan, not ordinary weekend traffic directions.
  5. After the finish. Let the finish-area access plan decide the meal and meetup, especially on a point-to-point course.

Where the weekend should be based

The mistake here is booking downtown because the race starts at Dodger Stadium. This is a point-to-point course and you only touch the start once, for maybe 40 minutes, whereas you will spend the entire rest of the weekend at the finish in Century City. The race solves the start-line problem for you in both directions: free shuttles run from the finish area to the start between 3:00 and 5:30 a.m., and a separate downtown hotel shuttle leaves 500 S. Figueroa Street between 4 and 6 a.m. Downtown is a defensible choice only because it has the deepest hotel supply and the official DTLA shuttle, but it costs you the walk-to-your-room finish, and the return shuttle from Avenue of the Stars only runs 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Century City costs more and is quieter at night; downtown is cheaper, livelier, and adds a shuttle ride at both ends of race day.

Compare the actual hotel geometry →

Course geometry provenance is stated beside the player; elevation profiles always use the same route loaded there. City geometry is OpenStreetMap, ODbL. Aerial imagery is from USGS and USDA; other images carry their own source credits. Weather figures use Open-Meteo reanalysis for March 3-11 across 2016-2025 at the start line. Schedule, prices and expo hours were checked in 2026-08-31 and are the fields most likely to move: confirm them on www.mccourtfoundation.org/event/los-angeles-marathon before you book anything. Spot an error? Tell us and we'll fix it fast.