CicLAvia Announces 2025 Car-Free Open Streets Schedule

 

Line Up Includes 8 CicLAvia Sundays

 

Season Kicks Off with New Route:

CicLAvia—West Adams Meets University Park

Sunday, February 23, 2025; 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
 

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (February 6, 2025) — In its 15th year, CicLAvia is bringing Los Angeles together with more open streets, more miles of smiles, and more active recreation spaces, CicLAvia announces its 2025 schedule of car-free open streets events, including some new routes and two CicLAminis. In addition to the 4-7 miles of CicLAvia’s traditional open streets events, there will be two 1-2 mile CicLAminis - compact, pedestrian-oriented neighborhood routes designed to inspire participants to slow down and enjoy the streets in a more leisurely fashion. Expect activities like self-guided walking tours, scavenger hunts, street games, local business engagements, and art and cultural activities for all-ages at every CicLAvis Sunday.

 

WHERE & WHEN: CicLAvia 2025 Schedule (subject to change)

- February 23: CicLAvia—West Adams Meets University Park: This new route, CicLAvia’s 58th event, connects La Brea and Vermont Aves along Jefferson Blvd, and on Vermont Ave between Jefferson and Exposition Blvds, 9am - 3pm

 

- April 21: CicLAvia—Koreatown Meets Hollywood, presented by Metro, 9am - 4pm

 

- May 19: CicLAmini—Pico Union, new route, 10am - 3pm

 

- June 22: CicLAvia—Historic South LA Meets Watts, presented by Metro, 9am - 4pm

 

- August 17: CicLAvia—Culver City Meets Venice, presented by Metro, 9am - 4pm

 

- September 11: CicLAmini—San Pedro, 10am - 3 pm

 

- October 12: CicLAvia—Heart of LA, presented by Metro, 9am - 4pm (annual anchor route & fan favorite)

- December 7: CicLAvia—Melrose Ave, 9am - 3pm

 

"For 15 years, LADOT's partnership with CicLAvia has unlocked the potential of our streets and turned them into neighborhood celebrations," said LADOT General Manager Laura Rubio-Cornejo. "We look forward to hitting the streets from West Adams to University Park with another great event that allows Angelenos and visitors to walk, bike, and roll through vibrant communities, meet up with friends, and support local businesses."

“We appreciate that Metro is again partnering with the City of LA and neighboring cities to provide funding for CicLAvia’s 2025 season,” says CicLAvia Executive Director Romel Pascual. “As a non-profit, this partnership allows us to continue to offer and expand our beloved open streets events throughout the Los Angeles region. Our work at CicLAvia also relies on our coalition of supporters, which includes foundations, individual donors, community organizations, and companies who share the vision of safe, diverse, and inclusive open streets. We are excited to start our 2025 season with new CicLAvia routes in West Adams and Pico Union. The diversity of community and small businesses remind us of what makes CicLAvia special, impactful and so popular. We will see eight CicLAvia open streets events in 2025, and we are thrilled to celebrate LA alongside our dynamic communities.”

WHAT: CicLAvia
CicLAvia car-free open streets for all to enjoy as temporary park spaces – free of charge. Participants of all ages and abilities can play, explore local gems, and sightsee, while experiencing the joy of safe, people-powered transportation on car-free open streets. CicLAvia events range from 1 to 7.5 miles, in different neighborhoods all around Los Angeles.

Show up anywhere along the route at any time and have fun! Hubs have restrooms, free water refilling stations, free basic bike repair, bike parking, and first aid. In addition, free pedicab rides are available at each information booth.

Hubs are resting and meeting points along the route and offer additional programming and activities. Every route highlights local gems in the neighborhood, from eateries to cultural institutions to mom and pop shops.

CicLAvia is a nonprofit that catalyzes vibrant public spaces, active transportation, and good health through car-free streets. It has never been more important to improve people’s lives and strengthen communities, breaking free from isolation, exploring the connection between our health and our planet's health and to support sustainable systems and materials that sync with nature. Instead of building permanent infrastructure, CicLAvia builds unifying social fabric, joyously connecting culturally diverse neighborhoods and neighbors to each other through open streets. CicLAvia is not just about cycling, it’s also about multiple modes of people-powered transportation. Whether one walks, strolls, skate, jogs, scooter, or bikes, CicLAvia creates so many incredible moments and experiences enjoying our city streets together.

 

More than just an open streets movement, CicLAvia helps communities re-imagine a greener and cleaner Los Angeles, while also promoting equitable transportation options, healthier lifestyles, and closer connections to community. Inspired by Bogotá’s weekly ciclovía, CicLAvia has been temporarily closing streets to car traffic and opening them as public parks in Los Angeles since 2010. With more than 294 miles of open streets, Melrose Valley is CicLAvia’s 50th event.

 

Only people-powered vehicles are allowed. No electric scooters, electric skateboards, hoverboards, electric unicycles, motorcycles and other non-people-powered vehicles are allowed at CicLAvia. Class 1 e-bike pedal-assist allowed. Class 2 e-bikes are allowed when the throttle is powered off. Class 3 e-bikes allowed when pedal-assist is powered off. Motorized wheelchairs are allowed. Learn more here.

 

Participants assume all known and unknown risks of participation in CicLAvia. More information regarding participants rights can be found here: https://www.ciclavia.org/ciclavia-safety

 

WHO:
Free for all, CicLAvia is a nonprofit organization working to connect neighborhoods to each other across a sprawling city, creating a safe place to walk, skate, roll, bike, play and dance through Los Angeles County. CicLAvia engages with people to transform our relationship with our communities and with each other. Participants of all ages and abilities will enjoy a day to sightsee, play and explore local gems, while experiencing the joy of safe, people-powered transportation on car-free open streets.

 

HOW & MORE INFORMATION: 
• Visit https://www.ciclavia.org/ for more detailed information
• [email protected]; 213-355-8500
• Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ciclavia

• Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ciclavia/

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CicLAviaLA

• Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/laciclavia/sets/with/72157656013962875

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Fact Sheet: CicLAvia, 15 years of catalyzing vibrant public spaces,
active transportation and good health through car-free streets

 

The first CicLAvia event took place on October 10, 2010, with a stretch of open streets from East Hollywood through downtown L.A. into Boyle Heights. More than 100,000 Angelenos turned out with people-powered transportation (bicycles, walking, skateboarding, scooters, running, pedicabs, etc.), exceeding expectations. Through CicLAvia open streets events, people feel joy and belonging through safe, people centered and community-oriented streets.

Inspired by the Bogotá, Colombia’s Ciclovía events that started 50 years ago, CicLAvia began as a grassroots initiative by individuals who recognized that Open Streets events could address active transportation, urban land use, and public health needs in L.A.

• Fifteen years and 57 CicLAvia Sundays later, upwards of 2 million people have explored more than 331 miles of open streets in L.A. County. The 4-7 mile CicLAvia routes are 6-8 times larger than the median size of L.A.’s existing public parks.

• Attendees come from both the host neighborhoods – and all over L.A. and beyond – to share and enjoy the day. CicLAvia builds a unifying social fabric connecting neighborhoods and neighbors to each other through a spirit of play and exploration.

• CicLAvia is free, fun, and inclusive. Neighbors, families, and new friends can more intimately explore neighborhoods, historic sites, and hidden gems along with food, shopping, and educational resources available along each route.

• For those participating with children, CicLAvia is an opportunity to get exercise, explore the city, have fun, to bike and walk in a safe environment without traffic, and to simply get their children outside, as well as enjoying the activities our many sponsors offer.

• CicLAvia has allowed L.A. to imagine what air quality, mobility and public health would be like via car-free Open Streets events. CicLAvia routes vary, creating greater equity for L.A.’s most park-poor communities – extending its reach and impact beyond any one community.

• By locating routes near public transportation, a broad range of local communities can easily participate. CicLAvia entices people to go places they never visited or always wanted to. Metro ridership increases 30% during CicLAvia, with some riders taking trains and buses for the first time. CicLAvia happens with communities not to communities. All routes, whether unique or recurring, are designed, planned, and implemented in partnership with local communities.

• CicLAvia’s participants mirror L.A.’s demographics. They come from 75% of City of L.A. zip codes, and 50% of LA County zip codes. In a region that has at times struggled for harmony, CicLAvia creates a joyous, shared urban forum. Everyone is welcome… even dogs. Attendees start wherever they want along the route and enjoy as long as they like.

• These well-coordinated days are due to the hundreds of volunteers who work alongside public safety workers to close streets to cars and open them to celebratory fun. By design, CicLAvia routes traverse the centerpiece boulevards that distinguish LA’s many unique neighborhoods.

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