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5 Movie Studios To Vist While In Los Angeles

If you are planning a trip to Los Angeles California, then you really should consider a visit to the movie studios around town. I have been on some of the best and some of the not so good tours where you had to walk for two hours and learned very little; these were not worth the cost of the ticket but to be fair I have included them as some people may want to see them. My fave by far is Warner Bros and NBC. I have tried to include driving directions, hours, addresses and phone numbers to call for advanced tickets.

Warner Bros Studio 4000 Warner Blvd Burbank, CA. / (818) 846-1403

Only a handful of Hollywood movie studios offer tours. Fortunately, Warner Bros is one of them - and it may well be the best overall studio tour available to the general public. Unlike the Universal Studios tour, guests here aren't herded aboard monster trams by the thousands, and driven through theme park rides. At Warner Bros, the VIP tours are far more personal, limited to small groups of fewer than fifteen people. And the studio back lot that you see is the real thing. However, the tour is also one of Hollywood's best-kept secrets.Where Universal processes millions of tourists each year, only about 120 people a day discover the Warner Bros tour. You and your tour guide ramble about in a small tram resembling a golf cart; you are allowed to stop and get out of the tram to inspect many of the sets up-close, and your guide is always nearby to answer any questions you might have.

The tour is much more extensive and authentic than the indoor tour at NBC Studios. And although the WB tours last two full hours, you don't have to spend all of that time on your feet, as you do during the Paramount Studio walking tour. The Warner's back lot is also a lot more colorful than the Paramount property.The drawback, however, is the cost. Warner Bros charges a whopping $39 each for this special VIP tour (compared with $35 for Paramount, $24 for Sony/MGM, and $7 for NBC), in addition to a $5 parking fee.

The tour begins at a small visitors center where you check in and get your tickets - you can spend you're waiting time checking out a handful of exhibits on display, such as the troll from the first "Harry Potter" movie, and props from TV shows such as "Smallville" and "ER".Before the tour, guests are shown a 15-minute film chronicling the history of Warner Bros Studios, from the first talkie ("The Jazz Singer") through today's "Matrix" movies. The promo uses scenes from countless Warner Bros' classics, as well as rare bloopers.Then you hop aboard the small carts, and ride to the new Warner Bros. Museum, which houses a treasure trove of movie memorabilia.

These trams seat only two across, so everyone has a good view as you roll through the vast 110 acre lot. During the tour, you are surrounded by Hollywood history at every turn. Remember the line from the classic "Casablanca, " where Humphrey Bogart tells Ingrid Bergman, "We'll always have Paris" ? Well, those Paris flashback scenes from "Casablanca" were shot on a mock "French Street" here on the Warner Bros' back lot, a set which is still in use today. You'll see it on the tour.

Other movies shot here include "Damn Yankees, " "The Pajama Game, " "Bonnie and Clyde"The oldest section of the back lot at Warner Bros is New York Street, a mock city block, built in 1930 for the gangster movies that made Warner's famous - starring the likes of James Cagney and E.G. Robinson. One part of the street resembles New York ("Lois & Clark" was shot here, as were the "L" train tracks from "ER"). The other side resembles San Francisco. It was here that they shot portions of "Yankee Doodle Dandy, " "Batman Returns" (it posed as Gotham City), and the sci-fi classic "Blade Runner." from the TV series. In between, you'll see the gas station from "The Dukes of Hazzard, " the lake where they docked the boats each week in "Fantasy Island, " and the School for the Blind which 'Mary Ingals' attended in "Little House on the Prairie."You also learn a lot about movie-making during your tour.you'll see trees and boulders on wheels, so they can be moved about easily... You'll discover how a single street can be used for both modern and period pictures. You'll learn that they created a jungle and waterfall inside a huge sound stage here for "Jurassic Park, " and find out that Audrey Hepburn was told about the JFK assassination on a set here, while she was making "My Fair Lady." And you'll learn that actors such as Kevin Costner, Mel Gibson, and Steven Seagal have offices here at Warner's.

After your tour of the back lot sets, the tour next moves into the "front lot, " a busy area crowded with dozens of giant sound stages, offices, and post-production buildings. They'll confiscate your cameras at this point of the tour, and lock them away (don't worry, you'll get them back at the end of the tour).The tour makes several stops in the front lot. You may go into "The Mill", a studio factory that actually builds the numerous props needed for the movies - everything from furniture to giant Oscar statues. Here's you may see the giant clock used in "The John Larroquette Show, " a life mask of Michael Keaton (from "Batman"), a mock gun from "Lethal Weapon, " or an exact replica of a Presidential "soap on a rope" from the movie "Dave."the room is filled with plaster of paris molds and statues; hanging from the ceiling are large scale models of airplanes used in filming "Memphis Belle" and Mel Gibson's "Forever Young." You may also go inside a prop warehouse, where a veritable junk yard of assorted items are stored, from garage sale knick knacks to a genuine set of Presidential china (purchased at a hefty price from the Bush Administration, for the movie "Dave").

Other stops might include the costume department or the foley room (where they make sounds to go with the movies). It varies from tour to tour, depending upon what is available at the time.You'll be allowed to go inside one of the giant sound stages, and see the set from a TV show. They really let you get up-close on this tour. We were even allowed to knock on the fake walls and peek inside the windows of adjoining sets. (Now that "Lois & Clark" is gone, other sets you might visit on your tour include the sets for "ER", "Drew Carrey", "Gilmore Girls" "Everybody Loves Raymond" or "Friends.") Sometimes it will be a movie set instead. One 2003 visitor tells me they were taken to the set of the movie "What I Like About You".

You have a chance of seeing a star in the flesh along the way. Readers who have taken the tour have reported seeing George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh, Rob Lowe and Alexis Bledel ('Rory' from "Gilmore Girls"). Another reader, from Switzerland, writes to say that during a 2000 tour, he spotted director Steven Spielberg outside a sound stage where he was filming "A.I." But don't count on it - it remains a bit of a longshot. Inside the high-tech post-production labs, you'll be shown the "additional dialogue" areas where actors re-do spoken lines after the film has been shot, and you'll visit the room where an orchestra adds the musical scores while watching the film on a huge overhead screen. (If you come at the right time, you'll actually be able to watch and listen as the orchestra records the musical soundtrack for a film.)Warner Bros tries to include some filming whenever possible, and if you're lucky, you may get the chance to see a star rehearsing his or her scenes.

Exactly how much action you encounter, however, is more or less the luck of the draw, and depends upon when you happen to arrive. Mid-April, for instance, is one of the worst times of the year to see shooting at the studio - almost all of the shows are "in hiatus" (a sort of summer vacation), and action at the studio is minimal then. And now there's a major bonus for tour-takers - the final stop on the tour. In 1996, the studio opened the brand new Warner Bros Museum, filled with classic Hollywood memorabilia from the studio's glory days. Among other items, you can see Sam's piano from "Casablanca" and the original Maltese Falcon. But the museum is open only to those who take the VIP Tour. The tour itself lasts exactly two hours.

Advance phone reservations are required (especially for groups of four or more), so be sure to call ahead. If you decide to take the tour at the last-minute, they can usually accommodate you if you call just an hour before you leave for the studio. No one under age 10 is admitted on the tour. Dress casually, and wear comfortable shoes. You can bring a (still) camera, but you can only use it on the back lot - not during the other half of the tour. Parking: $5. Do not enter the studio gates - follow the directional signs to Parking Lot N (Gate 6). The lot is right around the corner from the main gate, on S. Avon Street.Admission Price: Tour of studio costs $39 per person, regardless of age (minimum age is 10). All adults must present current government issued photo identification upon registration and persons under 18 years of age must be accompanied by an adult. Hours: The 2-1/4 hour guided tours are given on weekdays only, every half hour, Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 3 PM (in the summer the last tour leaves at 4 PM). No tours on the weekend. Advance reservations are required. (Their schedule is subject to change - phone first to be sure of hours.)

Getting there: The studio is located at the intersection Olive Avenue, Pass Avenue, and Barham Boulevard, in Burbank, just a few blocks southeast of NBC Studios and Disney Studios, and northeast of Universal Studios. After parking at Gate 6, go to the new VIP Tour Center (at 3400 Riverside Drive), just outside the studio entrance at Gate 5. From Universal Studios, take Lankershim Boulevard half a mile north to Riverside Drive. Turn right (east), and take Riverside Drive east (about a mile and a half) to Hollywood Way. Turn right again (south), and take Hollywood Way to the studio gate. Follow the signs to the parking lot. / From the Ventura (134) Freeway east, take the Pass Avenue offramp. Turn right on Pass Avenue and follow it southeast for about one half mile, to where it intersects with Olive Street at the Studio. Look for the giant movie posters - you can't miss it.

For more information on this subject, you can access Warner Bros' website at: http://www2.warnerbros.com/vipstudiotour.

Paramount Studios 5555 Melrose Avenue Hollywood, CA 90038 323 956 1777 studioservices@paramount.com Open Hours Call for details http://www.paramount.com/studio

Unlike other studio tours, this is a walking tour. You do not get herded around in a tram, but actually walk the grounds of the back lot. This can be tiring since the tour lasts 2 hours. This is a historical tour of the studio and includes visits to actual productions when possible. It is now conducted on a tour cart. The largest tour group is 8 at a time... p. 35 dollars a person. 2 hours . book in advance We visited the sets of Soul Train, Nip Tuck, Entertainment Tonight and Everybody Hates Chris. I Met Mary Hart, and then they let us take pictures of each other on the Extra soundstage. We walked around on the set of Charmed.This tour was not as fun or informative as the others. I felt rushed around and like I said before it's a long walk..

Fox studios 10201 Pico Boulevard (at Avenue of the Stars), Century City, CA. / (310) 277-2211

At the southern edge of ultra modern Century City, you'll find what remains of the grand old studios of 20th Century Fox. Century City, with its glitzy array of hotels, shopping centers and towering skyscrapers, was built on what used to be the back lot of the 20th Century Fox movie studio, which is why they called the new complex "Century City." The studio sold the land to developers in 1961, after losing a vast sum of money on the making of Elizabeth Taylor's "Cleopatra.Founded in 1913 by William Fox, the studio had begun producing the famous Movietone Newsreels (the precursor of today's network newscasts) even before they moved to their current location. Fox had opened their studios in Century City in 1928, on land which used to be the personal ranch of Western movie star Tom Mix.

Seven years later, Fox merged with Twentieth Century Pictures (which had been founded in 1933 by Daryll Zanuck, after he left Warner Brothers), and the company became 20th Century Fox in 1935. In the years since, 20th Century Fox Studios has produced such memorable films as: "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "Rebecca" (1940), "Song of Bernadette" (1943), "Laura" (1944), "State Fair" (1945), the original "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947, and its 1997 remake), "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947), "The Robe" (1953), "Cleopatra" (1963), "The Sound of Music" (1965), "Hello Dolly" (1969), "Patton" (1970), the original "M*A*S*H" (1970), "The French Connection" (1971), "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972), "Romancing the Stone" (1984), "Cocoon" (1985), "Die Hard" (1988), "Predator" (1987) and "Home Alone" (1990). Prior to the release of "Titanic, " the studio's biggest hit was 1977's "Star Wars, " which still ranks as the fourth highest renting movie of all time (behind only "E.T." & "Jurassic Park"). They did almost as well with its two sequels, "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) and "Return of the Jedi" (1983).

In fact, 20th Century Fox has always had good luck with movie sequels. Fox gave us the fourteen "Sherlock Holmes" mysteries starring Basil Rathbone, as well as the five "Planet of the Apes" adventures (1968-1973), the three thrillers based on 1976's "The Omen, " and the many "Alien" films starring Sigourney Weaver. The names of the actors and actresses who have worked on the Fox lot are equally impressive. Little Shirley Temple made most of her classic musicals here. Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Richard Burton, Natalie Wood, Betty Grable, Alice Faye, Gene Hackman, Julie Andrews, Charlton Heston, Tyrone Power, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Will Rogers, Susan Hayward, Carmen Miranda, Milton Berle, Caesar Romero, Roddy McDowall, Bruce Willis, and Barbra Streisand (to just to name a few) all made films on this famous back lot.

In 1960, at the height of the Cold War, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev visited the United States and asked to see Disneyland. When they turned down his request to tour the Magic Kingdom, they brought the angry Khrushchev to the 20th Century Fox Studios for lunch instead, where they let him watch the making of the musical "Can Can" (starring Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine). He didn't seem to enjoy the experience... Actor Ronald Reagan was invited to the lunch, but refused to come.

If you head south down the posh Avenue of the Stars, you'll see the Twentieth Century Fox studios on your right side just before you turn right (west) onto Pico Boulevard. Most of the studio's back lot was sold off when Century City was developed, and some of the studio's facilities have been relocated elsewhere to make room for the shopping center. But a good part of the old Fox studios have survived and still remain busy making movies and TV dramas.

Recent theatrical releases from Fox included "Juno, " "Alvin and the Chipmunks, " "Alien vs. Predator, " "Live Free or Die Hard, " "Night at the Museum, " "The Simpsons Movie, " "The Devil Wears Prada, " "Borat, " "4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, " "X-Men: The Last Stand, " "Walk the Line, ""Fantastic Four" "Cheaper By the Dozen 2, " "Kingdom of Heaven, " "Unfaithful, " "Planet of the Apes, " the smash hit "X-Men, " "Doctor Doolittle Floats, " "Ever After, " "The X Files, " "Hope Floats, " "Independence Day, " " "Alien Resurrection, " "Speed, " "Broken Arrow, " "Die Hard: With a Vengeance, " "A Walk In The Clouds, " "Waiting To Exhale, "True Lies, " "Nell, " "The Beverly Hillbillies, " and "Mrs. Doubtfire, " adding star names to the Fox roster such as Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sandra Bullock, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Will Smith, Eddie Murphy, Keanu Reeves, Drew Barrymore, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, John Travolta, Jodie Foster, Robin Williams, Cameron Diaz, Patrick Stewart and Daniel Day-Lewis.

For television, Fox makes "24, " "Boston Legal, " "Prison Break, " "The Simpsons, " "Malcolm in the Middle, " "My Name is Earl" and others - some broadcast on the Fox Network. Until recently, they also gave us "Buffy the Vampire Slayer, " "Angel, " "Ally McBeal, " "Boston Public", "Roswell" and "The X-Files."

Despite a fire which ravaged the back lot a few years back, the studio even still retains some of the historic sets from the good old days. If you look carefully at the back lot as you drive by, you should be able to glimpse a portion of the colorful, turn of the century New York street set where "Hello Dolly" was filmed (with Barbra Streisand).

Incidentally, while you're in the area, you might be interested in a few more details about the surrounding area known as Century City. Given the area's movie history, many people assume that the name of the Century City's main street, "Avenue of the Stars" refers to movie stars. They are mistaken. The project was imagined as a city of the future, and thus its streets are named "Galaxy, " "Constellation, " and "Avenue of the Stars."

But today it could just as accurately refer to Hollywood royalty as to heavenly luminaries. The giant Fox Tower on Avenue of the Stars was featured as the skyscraper taken over by terrorists in the original "Die Hard" movie with Bruce Willis. And up until his death Ronald Reagan still had his offices on the top floor of that building. The Hyatt Regency Hotel next door was blown up in 1993 thriller "Point of No Return" (with Bridget Fonda). And the whole neighborhood came tumbling down in "Fight Club". Rock star Prince/ opened his Paisley Records offices at 1999 Avenue of the Stars ("1999, " get the pun?)

The twin Century Plaza Towers were featured on TV in both "Remington Steele" and "Moonlighting", and the fountains on Avenue of the Stars have been seen in many films and TV shows. Just around the corner (at 1888 Century Park East) is the headquarters of Orion Pictures. The ABC television network had its corporate headquarters in the ABC Entertainment Center (until they moved into the Valley), which is across the street from the Century Plaza Hotel - where many U.S. Presidents stay when they're in town. The Shubert Theatre is nearby (but not for long). Steven Spielberg once opened a restaurant of his own in the Century City Shopping Center; called "Dive! ", patterned after a submarine. Unfortunately, it sank.

Getting there: From Rodeo Drive, simply turn southwest on Santa Monica Boulevard and follow it (about one mile) to Avenue of the Stars. Turn left (east) on Avenue of the Stars and go east another mile to Pico Blvd. The studio will be on your right (northwest) side as you turn right (west) at Pico. For more information on this subject, you can access Fox's official websites at: http://www.fox.com and http://www.foxhome.com.

NBC Studio 3000 West Alameda Avenue (at Bob Hope Drive), Burbank, CA. / (818) 840-3537 or (818) 840-4444

In 2007, NBC reported that the studio will leave "beautiful downtown Burbank", the historic studio where Johnny Carson and Jay Leno taped "The Tonight Show" and Bob Hope taped his annual specials. NBC is planning to sell the land (34 acres in all) and will reportedly relocate its facilities to a new, state-of-the-art facility planned for Universal City, just north of Universal Studios Hollywood, near the existing Red Line station. (Universal is owned by NBC.) The new headquarters (to be called "The West Coast News Headquarters") won't be finished until 2011, so NBC will probably lease back some of the studio space until their new facilities are ready for prime time. The Tonight Show", which will see Conan O'Brian become the new host in 2009, will reportedly move to Stage 1 at Universal Studios Hollywood.

The bottom line: You had better hurry if you want to take the NBC Studio Tour of all the commercial TV networks, only NBC Studios in Burbank offers the public a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of its television operation.

ABC TV doesn't offer a guided tour of their studio. Neither does CBS, nor even Fox. In fact, if you want to see the inside of a TV studio, your only other choice is over at KCET - the local public television (PBS) station, Channel 28 , which offers a free guided tour of its historic Monogram Studios. The studio tour at NBC isn't free, but it is reasonably priced when compared with the cost of the tours provided by the local motion picture studios. NBC's $7.50 admission charge seems like a bargain compared with the $36 charged by Universal Studios or the $30 charged by nearby Warner Brothers. It also beats the $15 price of the Paramount Studios tour.

The NBC tour is a modest one, though. You'll find no audioanimatronic sharks snapping at your heels here, no 50-foot apes or flying DeLoreans. Unlike Universal, the NBC Studio tour is not a theme park in disguise. And unlike the Warner Bros tour, there are no mini trams or giant back lots to explore. It's just a 70-minute, indoor walking tour, offering a down-to-earth view of a working television studio.Their guided studio tour gives you a chance to go where TV history was made; it takes you deep inside the NBC studio. The tour shows you the vast warehouse areas where props are stored, and construction areas where craftsmen are hard at work building realistic sets; it shows you examples of special-effects hardware, and gives you a peek at the NBC wardrobe department. The tour leads you through the studio's labyrinth of hallways, past the makeup department, through the Peacock Store, and out into the parking lot where Jay Leno and other celebrities park their cars. You even get a glimpse of the infamous NBC commissary (made the butt of many jokes by Johnny Carson over the years.)

Then it is up to Studio Three, the set where the "Tonight Show" is taped. (Jay Leno moved the show to this building in 1994, from the historic Studio One where Johnny Carson taped his shows.) There, tour guests get to sit in the same seats as the "Tonight Show" studio audience and see that famous, familiar "Tonight Show" set up-close.The tour shows you videos about NBC's history, gives you demonstrations of sound-effects machines, and explains how such TV effects as 'chroma key' is brought to life. You might even bump into a minor celebrity along the way. And they accomplish all of this in less than 90 minutes. It's a polished, professional little tour which probably satisfies most tourists' urge for a behind-the-scenes glimpse of some aspect of Hollywood.The problem is that the NBC tour is just a little too slick. In fact, it's superficial - bordering on condescending.

Tour guests don't actually visit the wardrobe department, for instance, they just walk past it, and look at mannequins in a picture window. Tour guests don't get to see the actual makeup or special-effects departments in action, instead they are merely shown simple display cases filled with related props. The tour guide points to the NBC commissary from afar, but they won't let you actually go inside that well known cafeteria. When they take visitors out to the studio parking lot, they actually expect us to be impressed by the oil stain left by Jay Leno's car.You get the feeling that someone in charge thinks the tour guests have just fallen off the turnip truck.When soap opera actress Deidre Hall (from "Days of Our Lives") "accidentally" walks by and waves hello, you're supposed to believe that it was a blissful coincidence. When they demonstrate the well-known blue-screen process (by making a volunteer "fly" in a Superman cape against a blue background) we are supposed to be dazzled by 20-year-old video technology that in this day of home computers and videocams is old hat to just about everyone taking the tour.

Guests are "treated like tourists" in the worst sense of that term. The well groomed tour guides are friendly and polite, but you are always aware that, as a visitor, you are being kept on a very tight leash. What you see along their short, carefully-orchestrated tour route is what they want you to see - a shallow presentation designed to satisfy the supposedly unsophisticated hordes of tourists with a bare minimum of realism, while keeping them well out of the way of actual studio operations.Don't come here expecting to explore the secrets of a working TV studio. Most of what they show you is about as spontaneous as a museum display, and the tour group is often simply routed into separate little rooms where they can be amused, but kept safely out from underfoot.So is the tour worth the price of admission? Well, the cost ($7.50) is certainly low enough, the tour is polished & mildly entertaining, and you do get to take a look inside one of the most famous television studios in Hollywood, however cursory that look might be. I suppose that just being able to see the inside of the "Tonight Show" studio (without standing in line for hours) might be worth the price of admission for many folks. But at its heart, the tour is a sham... it could be so much better if only it were more authentic and just a bit more spontaneous.You might be better off simply getting free tickets to the Tonight Show.

A word about crowds: I took the tour at 11 AM on a weekday in late October, and there were about twenty other people in my casual, relaxed group. But I am told that the tours gets much more crowded during the peak summer tourist season, especially on summer weekends when they can sell out early. I suggest you try to visit during the off-season.

Admission Price: Adults: $7.50 Seniors (60+): $6.00 Children (5 12) $4.25 (Children under 5 free.) Hours: Tours depart at regular intervals from 9 AM to 3 PM on weekdays (Mon-Fri). Closed on Saturday & Sunday (except during peak summer & holiday seasons, when they are open extended hours and on weekends). Phone ahead to be sure.Getting there: NBC Studios is located in Burbank, between the Ventura (134) Freeway (on the south), Alameda Avenue (on the north), California Street (on the west), and Bob Hope Drive (on the east). / From the Ventura (134) Freeway east, take the Bob Hope Drive offramp; turn left (north) on Bob Hope Drive (go back under the freeway), then turn left again (west) on Warner Street. (Incidentally, Bob Hope's house is just a few blocks down the street, at 10346 Moorpark Street!) For more information on this subject, you can access NBC's official website at: http://www.nbc.com.

Universal Studio Address: 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608.

Universal City is located just north of downtown Los Angeles. Address: 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608.

Go Behind the Scenes and See how Hollywood magic really happens. Explore Hollywood's most famous backlot in the world's largest working movie studio as you go behind the scenes of your favorite movies and TV shows.Encounter awe-inspiring wreckage like never before at Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds.See Wisteria Lane from ABC's hit series Desperate Housewives.Witness the explosive special effects of the Fast and the Furious: Extreme Close-Up.Check out actual Skull Island set pieces from the movie King Kong.

Dare to approach Blockbuster movies and hit television shows are constantly filmed at Universal Studios.On the Studio Tour you will go deep behind the scenes where today's hottest movies are being made. Keep your eyes peeled for stars!

However, because of contractual secrecy requirements and privacy concerns, many of the movies and TV programs being filmed on the Universal backlot cannot be publicized online.Come experience the legendary Universal Studio Tour and go behind-the-scenes where Hollywood movies are made, and where Hollywood's biggest stars work daily. You never know what (or who) you may see!

Universal City is located just north of downtown Los Angeles. Directions to Universal Studios Hollywood: From Anaheim:

Take the 5 Golden State Freeway North. Exit to the 101 Hollywood Freeway North. Continue on the 101 Freeway and exit at Universal Studios Blvd. Turn right on to Universal Studios Blvd. and follow the signs to Universal Studios and our parking areas.

From The Los Angeles International Airport: Follow signs from the terminal to the 105 Freeway. Take the 105 Freeway East to the 110 Harbor Freeway North. After passing through the downtown area, get on the 101 Hollywood Freeway North. Follow the 101 Freeway to the Universal Studios Blvd. exit. Turn right on to Universal Studios Blvd. and follow the signs to Universal Studios and our parking areas.

From Hollywood: Take the 101 Hollywood Freeway North to Universal Studios Blvd. and follow signs to Universal Studios Hollywood. From Santa Monica: Take the 10 Santa Monica Freeway East to the 405 Freeway North. Exit to the 101 Ventura Freeway East/South. (Signs to Los Angeles.) Continue on the 101 Freeway and exit on Lankershim Blvd. Turn right. Continue right under the freeway overpass. Universal Studios will be on your right side