Top Long Beach Outdoor Activities

Renting a swan boat is a fun way to exercise and explore the Rainbow Lagoon at the same time. If your rental is on a hot day—no need to worry about the California sunshine, as each boat comes with shaded canopies to protect you from the elements. Choose from a variety of time slots to suit your schedule—you can even go for an atmospheric evening ride with LED lights on your boat.

Visit sharks, penguins and puffins with admission to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, and explore 19 wildlife habitats from every corner of the world’s largest ocean. Slip beneath a full-sized model of a blue whale, and catch the eye of a fierce leopard shark. Travel from a Sea of Cortez kelp forest to the ice-crusted waters off Northern Japan; watch sea horses play in a tropical lagoon, pet a shark in a kid-friendly touch tank and listen to the eerie melodies of an undersea whale song. Join us as the Aquarium of the Pacific celebrates its 25th Anniversary with new exhibits, events, and programs highlighting the remarkable natural world right outside our door. Journey through a re-imagined Southern California Gallery highlighting fascinating local animals and marine habitats. Discover colorful reefs, kelp forests, and sea grass beds as you meet a pod of lobsters, an octopus, deepwater fish, and more.

Leave behind the driving hassles and explore Long Beach in the open air—and on two wheels. With this self-guided bike tour from Rainbow Harbor, you’ll pedal along the water until you hit the Pike, one of southern California’s best waterfront shopping districts. If that doesn’t stop you, head for the Shoreline Pedestrian Bikeway and the Italian-inspired Naples, nabbing views you’d never get from behind your windshield.

See the L.A. coast from the sky with an exciting, 15-minute tour from Long Beach on a private helicopter. Swoop above the iconic Queen Mary ocean liner, hover over downtown Long Beach and see the imposing Battleship Iowa that's moored in the city's bustling port. Enjoy seaward views of Catalina Island and the curving Pacific coastline before touching back to Earth at the Long Beach helipad.

This full–day tour of Los Angeles is a popular and convenient choice for cruise ship passengers docked at the Long Beach or San Pedro terminals. After pick–up from the port, your guide brings you to LA’s highlights and hidden gems, from the Hollywood Sign to Marlon Brando’s acting school. The day’s itinerary factors in free time to explore, dine, or shop at your own pace.

Spend the day sightseeing in Los Angeles during this guided tour from Long Beach. With an expert local guide and a small group of 14 people or less, see LA landmarks like the Hollywood Sign, Santa Monica, Venice Beach and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Follow your guide to filming locations of famous movies, explore Hollywood Boulevard and see one of the biggest ports in the US. This tour includes a balanced mix of guided tours and free time and includes round-trip transportation from Long Beach hotels.

Take a thrilling whale-watching excursion off the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Travel along the coast of Los Angeles and experience marine wildlife up close. Enjoy a glass or wine or beer, a light snack, or other beverage from the boat’s galley. Sit either inside or out on our 45-passenger vessel as you search the Pacific for Gray, Humpback, and Sperm whales, sharks, seabirds, dolphins and sea lions on this memorable outing.

Take in Los Angeles’ scenic highlights from the air with a private, 45-minute helicopter tour from Long Beach. Fly up the coast past Manhattan and Venice beaches, then bank over Santa Monica pier then head for downtown. See the city’s sports centers and gleaming skyscrapers and take in views of the Hollywood Hills and the San Gabriel Mountains before touching back down in Long Beach.

See the L.A. coast from a private helicopter with a 30-minute, narrated flight from Long Beach, and take in California’s most iconic vistas. Watch for surfers as you soar over the breaks at Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, and the Port of Long Beach. Glide past iconic landmarks like the Queen Mary and the Battleship USS Iowa Museum. Admire the natural beauty of Abalone Cove Shoreline Park as well as cliffs, caves, and waves along Palos Verdes.

Join our one-of-a-kind scavenger hunt and explore Long Beach in a new, unique way. Each session is aided by an interactive remote host, who sends challenges to participants via a phone app. When the challenges are accomplished, the team scores points. Check your status against competitors on the app’s international leaderboard. This handcrafted adventure is part tour, part detective hunt, part social experiment, and part creative challenge, with lots of fun in between.

Discover the Long Beach shoreline on a four-wheel surrey cycle. This is the flagship cycle of the Long Beach Wheel Fun Rentals fleet, a human-powered modern day carriage. A surrey ride is fun and relaxing, perfect for one-on-one time with your romantic partner or a fun day out with the family. Create a memory to last a lifetime!

Check out the nightlife in Long Beach on this interactive bar hunt. The popular app-led scavenger hunt company, Let's Roam, is putting a new spin on the old bar crawl. Just download the app and hit the town. As you make your way through pubs, clubs and dive bars, you'll complete photo and video challenges to rack up points and be proclaimed the Bar Hunt Champion! Must be 21 to participate.

There’s one surefire way to make exploring Long Beach extra fun—by riding a four-wheeled surrey cycle. Taking off after sunset, you and your pedaling partner will glide from the historic Queen Mary to The Aquarium of the Pacific and beyond, covering more ground than you could on foot (and not worrying about parking). Bring your camera, as colored LED lights ensure you weave a trail that glitters and glows.

A beautiful private yacht tour of the port of Long Beach and Los Angeles. See all the described attractions listed in this itinerary and see seals and sea lions in their natural habitat. You also have the option to fish from the yacht as we go if you have a valid license (bring your own pole and gear.) This is a flat rate for a private trip, you have the yacht to yourselves. Limit of 6 guests in your party.

In you like fun and games, and fancy yourself an amateur-detective or wannabe treasure-hunter, this 2-hour walking adventure around Long Beach is for you. With your smartphone acting as a guide, wander around Long Beach at whatever pace you wish, solving clues and completing challenges at the same time as enjoying all of the sights, sounds and tastes this vibrant LA borough has to offer.

An excellent pick for travelers who want to leave the hustle and bustle of the city behind—this sailing lesson is guided by a certified instructor, and no experience is required. The route sets off from the Rainbow Harbor Marina and ventures into the beautiful Pacific Ocean. To ensure you get the most out of the lesson—it's completely private, which means you can ask plenty of questions throughout.

Enjoy the breeze in you hair with our 2023 model Trixx Seadoo and experience the freedom on the waves with our 2023 Sparks Seadooo!! Our premiere fleet comes with your very own detachable speaker for each Jet Ski with Bluetooth compatibility so you can ride in style with the tunes to add your own personal flare into your experience. All of our skis our equipped with the latest IBR system so that even the most unexperienced rider can hit the waves with a sense of security that they are in full control of the watercraft with an adrenaline filled ride down the coastline.

All of the flight time you accumulate on your demo flight will count toward your helicopter license requirements. After the flight, our knowledgeable staff will offer you more information on how to go about your future helicopter flight training.

Prebook this Long Beach helicopter simulator experience and guarantee your time using an ultra-realistic, full-motion simulator that can only be booked exclusively on Viator. With your timed slot inside the helicopter simulator, gain an understanding of what it feels like to fly a helicopter with realistic graphics, moving equipment, and a headset with a team walking you through it all. Learn how flight controls interact with one another for take offs, landings, and safe flights.

Take your exploration of Los Angeles to new heights during this 30-minute private helicopter sightseeing flight. Climb aboard your own private helicopter at Santa Monica airport for an unforgettable aerial excursion above the City of Angels, heading north over the canals of Venice Beach. You’ll continue past the sights including the foothills of Santa Monica, the mountaintop Getty Museum and Hollywood and its iconic sign, plus much more. Loop back past Griffith Observatory and the skyscrapers of downtown before coming back down to earth in Santa Monica.

Our very unique, immersive adventures are the only ones of their kind. We, unlike other companies, provide your very own remote, interactive, live host to assist and encourage you along through your phone. We are an Austin, TX-based global custom event design company offering scavenger hunts and other events in 300+ cities in North America and beyond. Our specially hand-crafted adventures are equal parts tour, creative challenge, detective hunt, and social experiment! Guests get to discover in an alternate reality our favorite hidden gems off the beaten trail and creatively interpret fun art, history, and culture clues - for points! They get to enjoy fame and glory while appearing on our website’s international leaderboard, no matter what their score. They get to essentially race other teams in other cities, even if they don’t have competitors who have signed up in their city that day. Get ready to discover unusual oddities, laugh out loud, and make the experience your own!

Survive an apocalypse in Long Beach today with Zombie Scavengers! An app will provide you with a list of items needed to survive the zombies. Find these items in any order you'd like and perform fun zombie themed challenges for points. Come up with a system to get the most points in order to survive the zombie apocalypse. Your friendly remote host will help you throughout the game via chat. Get enough points to survive the zombie apocalypse in Long Beach today!

You may bring 1-6 people on this activity. One ticket covers you and your guests, Enjoy a fully customizable 2 hr private group cruise aboard our 42 ft Bertram-Trojan Motor Yacht. Includes a professional photoshoot on the bow with the ocean, beach and island as your backdrop. We are LAs best value private group yacht experience. All cruises are BYOB and bring any food along as well. We even have a full kitchen and full private bathroom for you. Consider booking two blocks for a 4 hour trip.