Angels Flight Railway

Angels Flight Railway, billed as the world’s shortest railway, is a historic funicular in the Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles that has been carrying passengers since 1901. The two counterbalanced cars — Olivet and Sinai — travel a 298-foot, 33-percent grade between Hill Street at Grand Central Market and the upper station at California Plaza, offering a brief but iconic one-minute ride that has appeared in countless films and books, including the Oscar-winning La La Land. Constructed by Colonel J.W. Eddy and designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #4 in 1962, the railway was disassembled in 1969 for urban redevelopment, stored for nearly three decades, and reopened in 1996 — then painstakingly restored and reopened again in 2017. Today, Angels Flight operates seven days a week from 6:45 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., with fares of just $1.50 each way, making it one of Los Angeles’s most accessible and cherished historic landmarks.