Why you should experience Admiralty Way in Los Angeles, California.
Admiralty Way is a dynamic corridor where Marina del Rey's waterfront engineering, recreational boating, coastal planning, and enduring identity as one of the nation's largest small-craft harbors shape one of Southern California's defining shoreline streets.
Running through Marina del Rey between Del Rey and Venice, the corridor follows the marina's shoreline while connecting waterfront parks, yacht clubs, hotels, restaurants, residential communities, commercial districts, and public recreation areas that collectively express the community's maritime character. Palm-lined sidewalks, landscaped medians, marina promenades, harbor views, and modern waterfront architecture preserve a corridor shaped by large-scale coastal engineering, public investment, and decades of careful harbor management. Residents, boaters, businesses, visitors, public agencies, and maritime organizations continue reinforcing Admiralty Way's importance while supporting recreation, commerce, hospitality, and community life throughout Marina del Rey. The result is an experience defined by waterfront planning, maritime tradition, and the enduring character of Marina del Rey.
What you should know about Admiralty Way.
Admiralty Way is best known for serving as the principal shoreline corridor surrounding Marina del Rey, the recreational harbor developed by Los Angeles County following one of the largest coastal engineering projects undertaken in Southern California during the twentieth century. After decades of proposals to improve the low-lying Ballona Creek estuary, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors began dredging and harbor construction during the late 1950s, culminating in the official opening of Marina del Rey in 1965. Admiralty Way was planned as the marina's primary circulation route, linking public boat launches, marinas, yacht clubs, residential developments, commercial districts, and waterfront parks while accommodating the rapid expansion of recreational boating that followed completion of the harbor. Today the corridor reflects the long-term success of coordinated coastal engineering, transportation planning, and public waterfront management that continues making Marina del Rey one of the world's premier recreational boating destinations.
Marina del Rey contains approximately 19 marinas and more than 4,600 boat slips, making it among the largest man-made small-craft harbors in the United States. Burton Chace Park, dedicated in 1972, occupies roughly 10 acres on a peninsula extending into the harbor and serves as Marina del Rey's principal public gathering space for waterfront festivals and community events. The Fisherman's Village waterfront complex opened in 1967, adopting the character of a New England fishing village while providing restaurants, excursion operators, and recreational boating services overlooking the marina. Los Angeles County continues investing in seawall rehabilitation, dock replacement, roadway improvements, bicycle facilities, accessibility projects, and harbor infrastructure that preserve Admiralty Way as the primary transportation corridor serving Marina del Rey's waterfront.
How to fold Admiralty Way into your trip.
Admiralty Way is best experienced as an exploration of Marina del Rey's coastal engineering, maritime recreation, and public waterfront.
Begin at Fisherman's Village, where the harbor's maritime atmosphere introduces the recreational purpose that inspired construction of Marina del Rey during the twentieth century. Continue to Burton Chace Park, whose expansive waterfront lawns and panoramic harbor views reveal the scale of one of the nation's largest small-craft marinas. Conclude at Marina Beach, where calm waters and sweeping coastal scenery provide a fitting finale connecting Admiralty Way's harbor infrastructure with the Pacific shoreline that made the marina possible. The progression moves naturally from working waterfront to civic open space before concluding along the protected beach, revealing why Admiralty Way remains Marina del Rey's defining corridor for understanding the relationship between coastal engineering, recreation, and public access.
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