A child on a bike makes their way down City Terrace Drive with other cyclists behind her
A child makes their way down City Terrace Drive during the inaugural Camino City Terrace on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2025. (Photo by Marco Caliz / Boyle Heights Beat)

For the first time, cars gave way to pedestrians, bicycles, rollerblades, scooters and skateboards at the inaugural Camino City Terrace event this weekend. 

Organized by Los Angeles County and Metro, which oversees similar car-free events across the region, 1.6 miles of roads in City Terrace were closed to vehicles, allowing community members of all ages to enjoy the warm weather in the hills of East LA. 

While attendance was short of what CicLAvia brings to neighborhoods like Boyle Heights, downtown or Little Tokyo, Eastsiders still enjoyed music, toy giveaways, entertainment and craft and maker workshops with friends and family. 

One man said he and his daughter regularly ride CicLAvia routes and were happy to have a safe place for a community ride near their East LA home.

Here are some scenes from the inaugural event in the hills of City Terrace. 

Old-fashioned fun: children ride scooters and bikes down City Terrace Drive during Camino City Terrace. (Photo by Marco Caliz / Boyle Heights Beat)
A lot of people-watching in one photo as a child in a pink dress and pink helmet rides a bike with an adult skitching behind her wearing adidas and baggy jeans; next to them a pug-like dog walks on a leash with a person in crocs and a nike shirt while an older child on a bike with turquoise wheels looks on from the median.
Neighborhood dogs join in on the fun during Camino City Terrace. (Photo by Marco Caliz / Boyle Heights Beat)
Three adults and a child sit on a brick wall resting; in front of them are two bikes parked, one is blue with black tires and one is white with blue tires. Trees in the back frame them in a picturesque way.
Families and friends gather for group rides across the 1.6-mile route in City Terrace on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Lopez / Boyle Heights Beat)
Rear view of some pedestrians walking on a sidwalk toward a fruit vendor on the right iwht a huge rainbow umbrella; he is selling aquas frescas, cheetos, takis and ruedas chips.
Community members enjoyed a variety of food options from food trucks and local vendors. (Photo by Andrew Lopez / Boyle Heights Beat)
High-school musicians stand in a row on stage all wearing black pants and white shirts performing.
Students from East Los Angeles Performing Arts Magnet at Torres High School provided the Soundtrack along the route. (Photo by Andrew Lopez / Boyle Heights Beat)
A person sitting in a pedicab laughing and filming her journey on a cell phone; the look on her face looks like she's been caught getting a free ride. The pedicab rider is wearing a bucket hat that covers their face.
Some pedestrians enjoyed rides from Pedicab riders who shuttled between hubs during Camino City Terrace. (Photo by Marco Caliz / Boyle Heights Beat)
A row of four people decorating headbands, two hold a hot glue gun and the others have silk flowers in their hands at a crafting booth at Camino City Terrace on Dec. 14, 2025.
Attendees decorate headbands at a crafting booth at Camino City Terrace on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Lopez / Boyle Heights Beat)
View from behind of a child running down the middle of the road wearing a helmet while a parent chasing behind carries a pink strider bikel
A child discovers the freedom of the hills at Camino City Terrace. (Photo by Marco Caliz / Boyle Heights Beat)
A group of people posing for a portrait with a vartiation of bikes like an e-bike and folding bikes. Someone walks by in the background, smiling.
Riders pull up for a portrait at Camino City Terrace. (Photo Marco Caliz / Boyle Heights Beat)
A skateboarder performs a trick on City Terrace Drive with food trucks behind him
A skateboarder performs a trick on City Terrace Drive. (Photo by Andrew Lopez / Boyle Heights Beat)
A family walks their dogs along the route
A family takes advantage of car-free streets to walk their dogs along the route. (Boyle Heights Beat / Marco Caliz)
Riders and pedestrians walk on the streets in front of City Terrace Dr where Barrio Italian restaurant is visible and the hills of City Terrace behind. Several "Slow" signs are on the street to control traffic.
Cyclists walk their bikes near dismount zones as they head to activity hubs along the route at Camino City Terrace. (Photo by Andrew Lopez / Boyle Heights Beat)

Andrew Lopez is a Los Angeles native with roots across the Eastside. He studied at San Francisco State University and later earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. He returned to Los Angeles from the Bay Area to report for Boyle Heights Beat from 2023 to 2025 through UC Berkeley’s California Local News Fellowship. When he is not reporting, Lopez mentors youth journalists through The LA Local’s youth journalism program. He enjoys practicing photojournalism and covering the intersections of culture, history and local government in Eastside communities.

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