Hotels in Hacienda Heights, California

A little about Hacienda Heights...

Hacienda Heights is an unincorporated census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, USA. As of the 2000 census, the community had a total population of 53,122.

One of the largest Buddhist temples in the Western Hemisphere, the Hsi Lai Temple (meaning "Coming West") , is located in Hacienda Heights, and the site of a minor fundraising scandal involving then Vice President Al Gore.

Los Angeles County is a county in California and is the most populous county in the United States.

Education
The county is home to many colleges and universities. It also has a huge number of public school districts and many private schools.

Colleges

Art Center College of Design Pasadena
The Art Institute of California - Los Angeles, Santa Monica
Antelope Valley College, Lancaster
California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita
Citrus College, Glendora
Cerritos College, Norwalk
College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita
Claremont Colleges (5Cs), Claremont
DeVry University San Fernando Valley (Los Angeles)
East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park
El Camino College, Torrance
Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena
Glendale Community College
ITT Technical Institute San Fernando Valley (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles City College (LACC), Los Angeles
Los Angeles Harbor College, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Pierce College (Pierce), Woodland Hills
Long Beach City College, Long Beach
The Master's College, Santa Clarita
Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut
Otis College of Art and Design, Westchester (Los Angeles)
Occidental College (Oxy), Eagle Rock (Los Angeles)
Pasadena City College
Rio Hondo College, Whittier
Santa Monica College, Santa Monica
West Los Angeles College, Culver City
Whittier College, Whittier

Universities

Azusa Pacific University, Azusa
Biola University, La Mirada
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona), Pomona
California State University, Dominguez Hills
California State University, Bakersfield Antelope Valley center, Lancaster
California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), Long Beach
California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), Los Angeles
California State University, Northridge (CSUN), Northridge (Los Angeles)
Loyola Marymount University (LMU), Westchester (Los Angeles)
Pepperdine University, Malibu
Southern California University of Health Sciences (Whittier)
Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Westwood (Los Angeles)
University of La Verne, La Verne
University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles
Woodbury University, Burbank

The county's most visited park is Griffith Park, owned by the City of Los Angeles . The county is also known for the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena, the annual Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Los Angeles Zoo, the Natural History Museum, the La Brea Tar Pits, the Arboretum of Los Angeles, and two horse racetracks and a car racetrack, and miles of beaches--from Zuma to Cabrillo.

Venice Beach is a popular attraction where its Muscle Beach used to find throngs of tourists admiring "hardbodies". Today it is more arts-centered. Santa Monica's pier is a well known tourist spot, famous for its ferris wheel and bumper car rides, which were featured in the introductory segment of the television sitcom Three's Company. Further north in Pacific Palisades one finds the beaches used in the television series Baywatch. The fabled Malibu, home of many a film or television star, lies west of it.

In the mountain, canyon, and desert areas one may find Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park, where many old westerns, the original television series Star Trek and The Flintstones movies were filmed. Mount Wilson Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains is open for the public to view astronomical stars from its telescope, now computer-assisted. Many county residents find relaxation in water skiing and swimming at Castaic Lake Recreation Area - the county's largest park by area - as well as enjoying natural surroundings and starry nights at Saddleback Butte State Park in the eastern Antelope Valley - California State Parks' largest in area within the county. The California Poppy Reserve is located in the western Antelope Valley and shows off the State's flower in great quantity on its rolling hills every spring.