Every Package Date on this site was entered as an example, to show how the portal works. No venue has been asked for these dates, and none has acknowledged them. A Booking made here holds nothing.
Getting here
Where the bus goes is the one question no venue on this waterfront answers on its own website. Thirty-eight pages across all four venue sites and seven intake forms were read on 20 August 2026, and the only occurrence of the word “bus” in any of them was a line about scholarships. So this section publishes the few arrival facts a venue has actually put in writing, says Not Published everywhere else in those words, and names the desk to ask. Nothing here is permission to park: no venue has stated where a school bus may stand, and an absence of a published prohibition is not the same as being told yes.
Where the bus goes, venue by venue
AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles
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 runs its field-trip intake in its own scheduling system, separately from this site, and that is the only route it publishes. Ask there. Not Published · Not Published
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.
Cabrillo Marine Aquarium
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.
Battleship IOWA Museum
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.
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.
Los Angeles Maritime Institute
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.
Call the venue before the day. Two questions decide a morning and neither is published anywhere: where the driver sets the group down, and whether the lot is open when you arrive. Where a venue publishes no desk of its own, this page says Not Published rather than printing an address that may reach nobody.
Roadworks across the pilot year
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 closed
What it means for a bus
Ends
Published detour
SR 47 northbound ramps at Harbor Boulevard are closed
The 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 2026
DETOUR 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 completely
Caltrans 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 Published
Not Published
Harbor Boulevard is rebuilt from S.P. Slip to 22nd Street
This is the corridor linking Battleship IOWA, the LAMI dock and the route south towards Cabrillo. The work spans the entire pilot school year.
January 2028
Not 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.