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Some of the outdoor spaces at Rancho Los Alamitos are open for you to enjoy.
For a map of the areas that are currently open for visitors to tour, please click here.
This map will be updated as additional gardens and other areas are reopened.
We look forward to welcoming you! |
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Before you visit, please reserve a free ticket for a 60-minute self-guided tour. To keep our visitors, volunteers, and staff safe, we are making changes to how we operate. For a self-guided tour of the Gardens and Barnyard, please reserve a free, timed ticket via the online form or by sending an email to info@RanchoLosAlamitos.org with the time you wish to visit and the number of people in your group. Our open hours are 1:00-5:00 pm on Wednesday through Sunday.
When you visit, please:
- Wear a face covering. All visitors over 2 years of age must wear a face covering.
- Maintain physical distance of 6 feet or more from staff and other visitors.
- Make use of sanitizing stations and avoid touching your face.
- Help us protect this historic site and our livestock
- Stay home if you are sick with a cough or fever.
Other COVID-related changes we are making include:
- The Ranch House and Rancho Center remain temporarily closed, and docent-led tours will not be available at this time.
- Restrooms on the ground floor of the Rancho Center will be open.
- When you arrive, please stay at your car until your reservation time and then check-in at the station in the parking lot.
- After checking in, visitors will follow a one-way route through the Gardens and Barnyard. Please note that narrow pathways in the Gardens may not be accessible to maintain physical distancing of all visitors, volunteers, and staff.
During your visit, please help us preserve this historic site and our livestock:
- Do not touch or feed the animals.
- Do not or climb on buildings, farm equipment, and plants, including the roots of our historic Moreton Bay Fig trees.
Please consider supporting the educational mission of Rancho Los Alamitos. Every gift helps us connect our community with rich history, compelling stories, and authentic connections to California's past.
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| For a list of dates that the Rancho will be closed to the public, please click here. |
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Rancho Los Alamitos, the “Ranch of the Little Cottonwoods,” is a Long Beach City Landmark and is twice listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Rancho has a continuous history of habitation that stretches back for more than 1500 years and reflects the many people who have called it home – from the first people, the Tongva, to the Spanish and Mexican colonists, right up to the Yankee farmers of the mid-twentieth century. The 7½-acre site includes four acres of nationally significant historic gardens, a ranch house (1790-1933), and a restored barnyard of the early 20th-century working ranch. Read more > |
Children and adults alike are fascinated and delighted when touring the spacious historic site, communing with nature in the lush gardens and visiting with the farm animals (horses, sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, and rabbits) in the barns area. Admission and parking are free. The Rancho is open to the public by reservation from Wednesday-Sunday, 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm.
Guests enter at the Bixby Hill residential security gate at the intersection of East Anaheim Road and Palo Verde Avenue. Admission and parking are free.
Inspiring a sense of community while educating and engaging visitors with our rich history, our compelling stories and our authentic connections to California’s past.
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