Pacific Park Papers

Stay up to date with all things Pacific Park, the West Side & the Santa Monica Pier.


The Los Angeles Opera returns to the Santa Monica Pier with The LA Opera at the Beach livestream of “La Bohème” being performed at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Sept. 28 from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. Be transported to the bustling café’s and hidden corners of 19th-century Paris in Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème. The opera […]

Fox’s hit action series aired their season 3 opener that ended with a cliffhanger – an epic tsunami barreling down on the Los Angeles coast line as the characters look on in fear from the west end of the Santa Monica Pier. 9-1-1 premiered in 2017 and explores the experiences of police officers, firefighters, dispatchers […]

As part of a chain of visitor information centers, carts, and kiosks located throughout Santa Monica, the main Santa Monica Pier Shop and Visitor’s Center location is staffed with friendly guides and experts knowledgeable about all the local highlights. They are ready and trained to help answer all the questions that you might have about […]

October 4th is National Taco Day and Los Angeles celebrates with the Pacific Park World Taco Eating Championship at the Santa Monica Pier. Each year, the world’s top competitive eaters meet outside Pacific Park’s Whac-a-mole Tacos to eat hundreds of LA street-style carnitas tacos in just 8 minutes. Watch the 2019 World Taco Championship Results [...]