Rose Bowl
A century-old sunken oval where the 1994 World Cup Final was settled — and the 2028 Olympics will return to do it again.
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Designed by Myron Hunt in 1921 and opened October 1922, this 89,702-seat National Historic Landmark sits in the Arroyo Seco, 10 miles north-northeast of downtown LA. It has hosted five Super Bowls, the 1994 FIFA World Cup Final, the 1999 Women's World Cup Final, and the 1984 Olympic soccer gold medal — more world-stage moments than almost any stadium on earth.
What to look for
- The sunken bowl shape — Hunt modeled it directly on Yale Bowl (1914), sinking the seating into the Arroyo Seco rather than building up from flat ground
- The sheer scale: 89,702 seats ranks it 20th-largest stadium in the world and 10th-largest NCAA venue
- The dual landmark plaques — it carries both National Historic Landmark and California Historic Civil Engineering landmark designations
Located in Pasadena next to Brookside Golf and Country Club; owned by the city of Pasadena and managed by the non-profit Rose Bowl Operating Company.
Rose Bowl is one of 33 sights worth the detour in Los Angeles, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Los Angeles pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Los Angeles
- Hollywood Walk of Fame2,850 names pressed into pink terrazzo underfoot — actors, inventors, fictional characters, all at six-foot intervals for 1.3 miles.
- Dolby TheatreThe red carpet runs up these stairs every awards season — where Hollywood officially crowns its year.
- SoFi StadiumA million-square-foot canopy embedded with 27,000 LED pucks bright enough to be seen from planes descending into LAX.
- Hollywood SignA 1923 real-estate billboard that refused to come down — and ended up owning the word "Hollywood" itself.
- U.S. Bank TowerLA sold the sky above a fire-gutted library to fund its own rebuilding — and got its second-tallest tower in the bargain.
- Los Angeles Memorial ColiseumThe only stadium that will have hosted the Summer Olympics three times — and it was commissioned in 1921 as a memorial to Los Angeles veterans of World War I.