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La Brea Tar Pits and Museum

Museum · Mid-Wilshire ·

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum

Museum · Mid-Wilshire ·
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"The tar pits themselves are viewable for free and expose bubbling natural asphalt, while the La Brea Tar Pits Museum (admission required) displays spectacular fossil composites — Columbian mammoths, ground sloths, dire wolves, North American camels, the famous saber-toothed cat — and houses over a million Ice Age fossils recovered from the site." - Maxwell Williams

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Active research site with bubbling tar pits and Ice Age fossils

fossils
tar pits
museum
ice age
scientists
excavating
dire wolves
mammoths
Google Rating
4.6 (14.8K)
Yelp Rating
4.2
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5801 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036 Get directions

Restroom
Family friendly
Paid street parking
Free Wi-Fi
LGBTQ friendly
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