THE
EIGHTH ANNUAL GREAT LOS ANGELES WALK IS READY FOR ITS CLOSEUP, HITTING FAMED
SUNSET BOULEVARD – ON NOV. 23
LOS
ANGELES (Nov. 11, 2013) -- Hundreds of Angelenos will hit the sidewalks this
November 23 for The Great Los Angeles Walk 2013 – the annual event that dispels
the myth that “nobody walks in L.A.”
This
year, for the eighth edition, the Great Los Angeles Walk (http://www.greatlawalk.com) will center around one of
Los Angeles' most famous streets, Sunset Boulevard.
Participants
will meet at Echo Park Lake's "Lady of the Lake" statue at 9 a.m. on
Saturday, Nov. 23, and proceed to walk approximately 17.8 miles (at a casual,
all-day pace) to the ocean, mostly via Sunset Boulevard and the famed Sunset
Strip.
The Walk
will follow Sunset Blvd. to Whittier Drive (at the edge of Beverly Hills), then
Wilshire Boulevard to the ocean. Walkers will pass through a diverse cross-section of
the region, starting with the newly rehabilitated Echo Park Lake, flowing into
neighborhoods including Echo Park, Silver Lake, Los Feliz and Hollywood. Then
comes West Hollywood and the legendary Sunset Strip, followed by Beverly Hills,
Westwood, West L.A. and Santa Monica.
The
Great Los Angeles Walk will also include a lunch on the Sunset Strip and conclude
with an after party in Santa Monica, both at locations to be announced later.
L.A.
journalist and blogger Michael Schneider launched the Great Los Angeles Walk in
2006 as a way to celebrate his tenth year in Los Angeles. Inspired by the book
“Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles,” by Kevin Roderick (with
research by J. Eric Lynxwiler), he decided to walk the street’s entire length.
In 2007,
for an encore, he chose another downtown-to-the-ocean route: Pico Boulevard.
The 2008 Walk took on Santa Monica Blvd. In 2009, the event kicked off in the
historic West Adams district and walked to Venice Beach via Adams and
Washington. In
2010, for its fifth edition, the Great Los Angeles Walk reprised its original
Wilshire journey. In 2011, more than 250 Walk participants marched to the ocean
via Hollywood Boulevard. And in 2012, the Walk traveled across Melrose Avenue.
The Great Los Angeles Walk grew from dozens of
participants to hundreds, and continues to expand each year as more Angelenos
join in to explore their city on foot.
As
always, the Walk is completely free. It is up to the participants to decide how
much or how little of the walk they want to do. The Great Los Angeles Walk has
been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the L.A. Weekly, KABC-Channel 7,
LAist.com and KNBC.com. In 2012, the LA Weekly recognized The Great Los Angeles
Walk in its "Best of L.A." issue.
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