Discover The Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden In
Arcadia California
In The city of Arcadia California, right next door to Pasadena
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will find The Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, a
beautiful and peaceful 127 acre botanical garden and historical
site jointly operated by the Los Angeles Arboretum Foundation
and the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation.
The Arboretum is located across from the Santa Anita Race Track
is at 301 North Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, CA, 91007. It is open
daily from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm; admission closes at 4:30.
Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for seniors (62 and over), $5
for students with ID, and $2.50 for children 5- 12. Children
under 5 and members are admitted free. Unlike most attractions
these days, parking is free.
In the middle of the Arboretum sits the four acre Baldwin Lake
which has been used in filming numerous movies and television
shows. "Johnny Weissmuller swam in LASCA Lagoon/Baldwin Lake for
three decades as Tarzan and later Jungle Jim. A local news story
reported that he, in fact, set an unrecorded Olympic swim record
when a cage of crocodiles was accidentally opened during filming
(Weissmuller beat the crocs to the lake shore). Bob Hope, Bing
Crosby and Dorothy Lamour took up a month-long watery Baldwin
Lake residence in homes on stilts for the filming of Road to
Singapore in 1939, the same year the Douglas Fairbanks,
Jr.,/Madeleine Carroll film Safari managed to sink a paddlewheel
boat in the same lake. Undaunted, television's original "Fantasy
Island" lowered a pontoon plane by helicopter onto Baldwin Lake
and propelled it across the water to disembark visitors to Mr.
Roark's island paradise. For Alex Haley's "Roots II", Baldwin
Lake became Kunta Kinte's river home in Africa."
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