Getting here

Choose the arrival point for your venue, then agree on bus drop-off and waiting arrangements with its team.

  1. Check your destination

    A boarding dock can be different from an organization’s office. Use the venue’s visit information.

  2. Brief your driver

    Agree on the entrance, drop-off point, waiting location and return time before departure.

  3. Check the route again

    Allow for traffic and check current closures shortly before your visit.

Where the bus goes, venue by venue

AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles

AltaSea campus, Signal Street, San Pedro — ask the coordinator for your entrance.

Use the organization’s official visit information and agree on your group’s arrival arrangements directly.

Official visit informationContact the venue about arrival
Drop-off, parking and questions for your driver

Where a bus goes at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles is Not Published. Nobody there has put a drop-off point or a parking arrangement in writing, and this site will not invent one.

Still Not Published — ask before the day

  • Where a bus sets the group down
  • Where a bus waits during the day
  • Whether a driver has to clear a gate to reach the campus

Call ahead: AltaSea Field Trip Coordinator; main office phone. (424) 210-4320 · lmuller@altasea.org

AltaSea publishes nothing about arriving at all: its visit and contact pages both return 404, and its education page covers only what happens once the group is on foot. It is the one venue genuinely inside working port property, so gate procedure is an open question rather than a formality. Read 20 August 2026.

Battleship IOWA Museum

250 S. Harbor Blvd., San Pedro, CA 90731

Use the organization’s official visit information and agree on your group’s arrival arrangements directly.

Official visit informationContact the venue about arrival
Drop-off, parking and questions for your driver

Where a bus goes at Battleship IOWA Museum is Not Published. Nobody there has put a drop-off point or a parking arrangement in writing, and this site will not invent one.

Still Not Published — ask before the day

  • Where a bus sets the group down
  • Where a bus waits, and what it costs
  • Whether a driver has to clear a gate

Call ahead: Battleship IOWA Museum’s group sales desk. 877-446-9261, extension 706 · groupsales@labattleship.com

Battleship IOWA publishes nothing about bus parking or drop-off. A rate for a nearby lot circulated during research and was struck out — it came from a lot operator’s general tariff rather than from the museum — so no lot and no rate is stated here. The contact is the one the network’s own call list uses. Read 20 August 2026.

Cabrillo Marine Aquarium

3720 Stephen M. White Drive, San Pedro, CA 90731

Use the organization’s official visit information and agree on your group’s arrival arrangements directly.

Official visit informationContact the venue about arrival
Drop-off, parking and questions for your driver
Drop-off
Not Published
Parking
The Cabrillo Beach fee lot is on site at 3720 Stephen M White Dr. The published tariff reads “Boats & Oversized vehicles - $3/hr with a $15 daily max” and “Credit/Debit Card payments only”. That is the beach lot’s oversized-vehicle category, aimed at boat trailers and recreational vehicles, and nobody has stated that it covers a school bus.

Still Not Published — ask before the day

  • Where a bus sets the group down, and whether it may unload at the welcome booth
  • What time the lot opens — the school programme starts at 10:00 and the aquarium does not open to the public until noon
  • Whether the oversized-vehicle rate covers a school bus

Call ahead: Cabrillo Marine Aquarium’s education programmes desk. The aquarium asks groups of more than 15 people to call it. (310) 548-7562 · programs@cmaqua.org

The tariff is published twice on the aquarium’s own site, on its admission page and its accessibility page; the drop-off point and the lot’s opening hour appear on neither, and its directions-and-parking and group-visits pages both return 404. The phone number is the one the aquarium publishes for group visits; the address is the one the network’s own call list uses. Read 20 August 2026.

Los Angeles Harbor College

1111 Figueroa Place, Wilmington, CA 90744

Arrange campus visits with Outreach. Harbor College is part of the network but has no Package in this catalog.

Campus map and directionsContact Outreach
Campus visit planning

Ask Outreach to agree on the meeting point and group arrangements for your visit.

Los Angeles Maritime Institute

Boarding: W 6th St and Harbor Blvd., San Pedro, CA 90731

Board at W 6th St and Harbor Blvd, near the LA Maritime Museum. This is not LAMI’s Berth 73 office.

Official visit informationContact the venue about arrival
Drop-off, parking and questions for your driver
Drop-off
LAMI boards from W 6th St and Harbor Blvd, off the West Harbor Promenade just south of the LA Maritime Museum — a different place from its Berth 73 headquarters. Its own boarding page names the Museum Loop for drop-offs, with public restrooms on the north side of that loop. It is the only one of the four venues that names a drop-off point at all.
Parking
Street parking around the Museum Loop is limited. The lot beside the Maritime Museum is small and paid, and the gravel lot closest to the dock is paid by the QR code posted there. No bus rate and no bus-sized space is stated for any of them.

Still Not Published — ask before the day

  • Whether a 40-foot bus can complete the Museum Loop — LAMI states no turning radius and no vehicle length anywhere
  • Where a bus waits once the group is aboard
  • Any bus rate at either paid lot

Call ahead: The Los Angeles Maritime Institute’s general enquiries desk. 310-833-6055 · info@lamitopsail.org

LAMI’s own boarding and parking page, and its downloadable dock map, which labels the loop “DROP OFF LOOP, RESTROOMS & LIMITED STREET PARKING”. LAMI’s own advice on that page is to leave extra time to park and reach the dock. It states no vehicle length, which is why the 40-foot question stays open. The contact is the one the network’s own call list uses. Read 20 August 2026.

Arrival planning notes

Check the venue’s arrival instructions and contact its team about arrangements for your bus. General visitor parking information does not establish bus access. Specific arrangements may still be Not Published.

Before departure, agree on the drop-off point, waiting location, gate access and arrival time with the venue. Ask about anything still Not Published and share the answers with your driver.

Check traffic before you leave

Use Caltrans QuickMap for current road conditions. For the dock approach, see LAMI’s boarding and parking information.

Earlier roadwork notices · check current status before using

San Pedro is a construction site for the whole of the 2026-27 school year, and roadwork guidance that has gone stale is worse than none — the Los Angeles Maritime Institute’s own boarding page still carries a ramp advisory that expired around December 2025. So every advisory below carries the end date its own source states, and where a source publishes none this page says Not Published instead of picking one. All three were read on 20 August 2026; check the source before you plan a route around one.

Published roadworks between the freeway and the waterfront
What is closedWhat it means for a busEndsPublished detour
SR 47 northbound ramps at Harbor Boulevard are closedThe northbound SR 47 on-ramp and off-ramp at Harbor Blvd are shut while the interchange is rebuilt. Traffic coming south on I-110 towards the waterfront is what this affects.31 October 2026DETOUR A: SB I-110 to Harbor Blvd. Exit at Channel Street/Pacific Ave. and continue to Front Street/Harbor Blvd.
The Vincent Thomas Bridge closes completelyCaltrans is replacing the bridge deck and closing State Route 47 for sixteen months from about 1 November 2026. That severs the direct road link between San Pedro and Long Beach for the whole pilot year, which is why this catalog offers only the brigantines berthed in San Pedro.Not PublishedNot Published
Harbor Boulevard is rebuilt from S.P. Slip to 22nd StreetThis is the corridor linking Battleship IOWA, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium and the LAMI dock. The work spans the entire pilot school year.January 2028Not Published
  • SR 47 northbound ramps at Harbor Boulevard are closed — The Port of Los Angeles interchange project page, which states “The northbound SR 47 on-ramp and northbound SR 47 off-ramp at Harbor Blvd. will be closed through Oct. 31, 2026” and publishes Detour A word for word. The Port does not state that Detour A is an instruction for buses. The project’s own estimated completion is December 2026, so the advisory set will change before then. Its traffic line is (310) 732-7778. Read 20 August 2026.
  • The Vincent Thomas Bridge closes completely — Caltrans District 7 states the full closure is “scheduled for November 1, 2026” and the Port of Los Angeles states “late 2026”, for sixteen months; both say the schedule may change. No detour has been published for the full closure — the routing Caltrans has published applies to the earlier night-time lane closures, not to this — so the end date and the detour are both Not Published. Read 20 August 2026.
  • Harbor Boulevard is rebuilt from S.P. Slip to 22nd Street — The Port of Los Angeles Harbor Boulevard reconstruction schedule, November 2026 to January 2028. No detour is published for it. Read 20 August 2026.

Contact and official visit links checked 5 September 2026. Older roadwork notices retain their original dates.