Bus to Long Beach, CA with Greyhound

A bus to Long Beach drops you on the Pacific coast about 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, in a port city of around 451,000 that has quietly grown into one of the more interesting stops on the Southern California coast. Long Beach is the seventh-largest city in California, the second-largest in Los Angeles County, and the southern terminus of the LA Metro A Line, which puts a Greyhound passenger one light-rail ride away from downtown LA without needing a car. The waterfront defines almost everything here. The Queen Mary is permanently moored across Queensway Bay, the Aquarium of the Pacific sits at Rainbow Harbor, and the Port of Long Beach next door is the second-busiest container port in the country, sharing a working coastline with the Port of Los Angeles. Inland, the city stretches across distinct districts: a walkable downtown around Pine Avenue, the East Village arts district, beachfront Belmont Shore, the canals of Naples, the Cambodia Town strip on Anaheim Street, and older blocks around Bixby Knolls. Greyhound is a practical way to arrive: no security line, an assigned seat at booking, and you step off in walking range of the waterfront and the Metro instead of out at LAX.

Greyhound stops in Long Beach

Greyhound has 2 stops in Long Beach and the difference between them matters when you book. The Long Beach Bus Station at 1498 Long Beach Boulevard boards in front of the Greyhound storefront inside the parking lot. It sits on Long Beach Boulevard north of the freeway, near the Pacific Avenue and Anaheim Street A Line stations. The Long Beach Downtown Transit Gallery at 107 East 1st Street boards at bus bay A — look for the silver shelter labelled with a gold A. This one puts you in the middle of the downtown grid, a short walk from Pine Avenue, the Convention Center, the Aquarium and the East Village, and right beside Long Beach Transit's local routes and the A Line's downtown loop. For trips aimed at the waterfront or the A Line into Los Angeles, the Transit Gallery is usually the better arrival; the Long Beach Boulevard stop fits better if you are connecting onward by rideshare or staying north of the 710. Plan to arrive early with ticket and ID ready.

Getting around Long Beach after your bus to Long Beach arrives

Long Beach is one of the easier Southern California cities to handle without a car, especially if you arrive at the Transit Gallery. The Metro A Line light-rail terminus sits in the same downtown loop, with stations at 1st Street, Pacific Avenue, 5th Street, Anaheim Street and Pacific Coast Highway running north out of town; trains continue through the Regional Connector tunnel that opened in 2023 to 7th Street/Metro Center and Union Station in downtown LA. Long Beach Transit runs the local bus network and converges on the Transit Gallery, with east-west routes along Ocean Boulevard, Broadway and Anaheim Street that reach Belmont Shore, Cal State Long Beach, El Dorado Park and the Traffic Circle. The free Passport downtown shuttle loops the waterfront between Pine Avenue, the Convention Center, the Aquarium and the Queen Mary parking on Queensway Bay, which makes the ship easy to reach without driving. Bike lanes follow the beach path from Shoreline Village past Belmont Shore to Alamitos Bay. Uber and Lyft cover what transit does not reach quickly, including Naples and the inland parks.

Top things to do in Long Beach

• The Queen Mary: the 1936 transatlantic liner is permanently moored in Queensway Bay and operates as a hotel, with guided tours of the engine room, bridge and first-class staterooms plus a long-running ghost-tour programme. Walking her promenade decks at sunset is its own thing.
• Aquarium of the Pacific: the regional aquarium at Rainbow Harbor opened in 1998 and runs three galleries on the Pacific Ocean; a sensible rainy-morning plan, allow a couple of hours.
• Walk the Long Beach Grand Prix street circuit: the 1.97-mile course on Shoreline Drive, Pine Avenue and the streets around the Convention Center is public road most of the year, so you can walk or cycle the racing line through downtown. The race itself runs every April with IndyCar plus IMSA SportsCar support cards.
• Belmont Shore and Second Street: the south-facing beach neighbourhood east of downtown has a calm protected beach (the Long Beach breakwater takes the surf out) and a long shopping and dining strip on Second Street between Livingston Drive and Bayshore Avenue.
• Naples Island canals: the small residential island between Belmont Shore and Alamitos Bay is laid out around three concentric canals with footbridges and gondola docks; walking the loop takes about an hour, and gondolas run year-round.
• Shoreline Aquatic Park: the park on the inner harbour gives you the postcard view back across Queensway Bay to the Queen Mary, with the small Lions Lighthouse for Sight on the rise above. A good first walk after stepping off the bus.
• Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA): the only museum in the United States dedicated to modern and contemporary Latin American art, in the East Village Arts District a short walk from the Transit Gallery.
• Long Beach Museum of Art: a small art museum on Ocean Boulevard set in a 1912 mansion overlooking the bay; the lawn above the bluff is one of the better free city views.
• El Dorado East Regional Park: a large east-side park with lakes, a nature centre, walking and cycling paths and a model-aircraft field, a different side of the city once you have done the waterfront.
• Pine Avenue and the East Village Arts District: the restored historic main street and the gallery-heavy blocks east of it cover most of downtown's evening dining and bars, with the monthly East Village art walk on second Saturdays.

Neighbourhoods to explore in Long Beach

Downtown Long Beach is the most useful base for a Greyhound traveller. Pine Avenue, Ocean Boulevard, the Convention Center, the Aquarium and the Transit Gallery all sit inside a small grid you can cover on foot, and the waterfront is a few blocks south of the bus arrival. The East Village Arts District, just east of Pine, is the gallery and indie-café district, with MOLAA and a second-Saturday art walk giving it a quieter evening feel than the avenue itself. Belmont Shore, on the south-facing coast east of downtown, is the beach neighbourhood: 1920s and 30s Spanish-style homes, a calm swimmable beach and the Second Street strip of shops, bars and casual restaurants. Naples, just east of Belmont Shore, is the canal-island neighbourhood, laid out as a small Southern California answer to Venice, and is best wandered on foot with no fixed plan. Bixby Knolls, inland along Atlantic Avenue in the north of the city, is the older residential district with mid-century commercial blocks and family bakeries.

Food and drink in Long Beach

Long Beach has one of the most genuinely diverse food scenes on the Southern California coast, and the headline is Cambodia Town, a stretch of Anaheim Street between Atlantic and Junipero officially designated by the City of Long Beach, anchoring the largest Cambodian community in the United States. Order num pang sandwiches, kuy teav noodle soup, beef loc lac and Khmer-style curries from the family-run kitchens and bakeries along the strip. Mexican and Mexican-American cooking sits alongside it citywide, with taquerias, mariscos counters and birria spots from downtown out to the inland neighbourhoods. The waterfront cooks the casual seafood you expect in a Southern California port city, with fish tacos, ceviche and grilled catch on most menus, and Pine Avenue downtown leans toward gastropubs and cocktail bars. The Second Street strip in Belmont Shore covers brunch, pizza, ice cream and beachside drinks; the East Village Arts District handles indie cafés and small-room bars; Bixby Knolls does long-running family bakeries and old-school diners.

Best time to visit Long Beach

Long Beach has a Mediterranean coastal climate with daytime highs in the 60s and 70s most of the year, hot stretches in late summer and cool evenings nearly always. The standout window is April, when the Grand Prix of Long Beach takes over the downtown street circuit on a long weekend; the city closes Shoreline Drive and Pine Avenue, builds temporary grandstands along the harbour edge, and runs IndyCar plus IMSA SportsCar support races within walking distance of both Greyhound stops. Spring and early autumn are otherwise the most comfortable stretches for the rest of the city, with clear coastal light and smaller crowds along the beaches. June brings the marine layer the rest of California calls "June gloom": cool, grey overnight fog that often does not clear until midday, softening but never quite ruining a beach trip. July and August are warm and busy, made for the waterfront, the Queen Mary deck and Second Street in Belmont Shore. Winter is mild and dry, with the lowest crowds and the best chance of clear views back across Queensway Bay to the ship.

Time your Greyhound trip to Long Beach around the season you actually want. The Grand Prix weekend in April is the headline date: engine noise rolls down Pine Avenue, the harbour edge is packed for three days, and both stops are within walking distance of the circuit, so arriving by bus with no car to park is the easier way to land. June gloom mornings reward a slower trip — coffee on Pine, then the Queen Mary as the deck dries off and the bay reappears in the early afternoon. From July through Labor Day the Belmont Shore beach, the Naples canals and Second Street are running at full summer pace, with long evenings and warm water inside the breakwater. Use the search bar on this page to grab bus tickets to Long Beach for the season that fits your trip; a bus to Long Beach steps you off near the harbour, the A Line and the start of the Grand Prix circuit, with the rest on Long Beach Transit or your own two feet.

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