Free Los Angeles Scavenger Hunt: For Tourists and Locals

Los Angeles has so many sights to see, and this free scavenger hunt will lead you to all the best places, local haunts, and have you keeping an eye out for what makes Los Angeles unique! Below, is our free scavenger hunt, where you can click or tap each item to mark it as complete. And for the planners out there, you can drag and drop rows to change the order in case you want to map out everything in advance.

For a print-and-play instead, click the picture below and you can download and print that.

Los Angeles Scavenger Hunt

Read further for more information on how to play or check out our hard-mode Los Angeles scavenger hunt if you prefer that over the below checklist-style option.

Scavenger Hunt Checklist for Los Angeles

ItemPoints
Hollywood Sign2
Marilyn Monroe’s star along the Walk of Fame4
Griffith Observatory3
Santa Monica Pier’s Ferris wheel3
A street performer at the Venice Beach Boardwalk4
The Getty Center3
The Broad museum3
Rodeo Drive street sign4
Universal Studios Hollywood giant globe4
Griffith Park3
The Walt Disney Concert Hall2
Whisky a Go Go3
The Hollywood Bowl amphitheater2
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)2
The Original Farmers Market3
Hollywood Forever Cemetery4
Interior of the Bradbury Building5
The Santa Monica stairs3
The Watts Towers4
El Matador Beach3
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)2
A market stall on Olvera Street3
A paddle boat on Echo Park Lake2
The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel2
The Los Angeles City Hall Observation Deck4
The Los Angeles River3
The Los Angeles Arboretum and Botanic Garden3
The Getty Villa2
Pink’s Hot Dogs3
A person with LA Lakers gear on2
A person with LA Clippers gear on3
A person with LA Rams gear on2
A person with LA Chargers gear on3
A person with LA Dodgers gear on2

How to Play

For this Los Angeles scavenger hunt, we’ve come up with a list of things to see in the city. Some of them are popular tourist attractions while others are more local secrets. For each item, you (or your team) will need to take a picture that shows both you and the listed item. For each photo you take, you’ll get the corresponding amount of points listed to the side of that item. 

At the end of the allotted time for the scavenger hunt, you can see what level of rank you’ve earned and whichever team has the most points wins! You’ll be allowed to go to City Hall and ask for a key to the city. (We haven’t actually made any arrangements, but it doesn’t hurt to ask, right?)

Additional considerations for how you play:

  1. We recommend three hours for the scavenger hunt just to have a limit on the time you’re focused on this activity, but that’s up to you.
  2. If you’re traveling as part of a group and don’t want to split up, we’d recommend treating this as a game of I-Spy and awarding points to whoever in the group spots the item first or takes the first photo.
  3. It’s up to you how tough you want to make it with respect to awarding points just for seeing something, or if you have to go inside, or taking it further and requiring even more depending on the location.

Score and Rankings

0-10: Did you even leave your hotel?
11-20: Business trip traveler
21-30: Frequent business trip traveler
31-40: Tourist
41-50: Lives in the next city over
51-60: Over-caffeinated tourist
61-70: Recent transplant
71-80: Local
81-90: Actually grew up here and has always lived here
91-100: Mayor

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