Best Neighborhoods for Schools in Monterey Park, CA

Monterey Highlands spreads across the hills on the west side of Monterey Park, where a lighted driving range and hillside streets sit a few minutes from the 10 and 710 freeways. Long before the houses, this was farm country. ... See Full Page

Monterey Pass is the working side of Monterey Park, a corridor of offices, light manufacturing and small food counters along Monterey Pass Road on the east side of the 710. The L.A. Corporate Center anchors the western end, and on weekdays the area runs on commuters, delivery trucks and the lunch crowd. ... See Full Page

Downtown Monterey Park grew up around the corner of Garfield and Garvey Avenues, and it still works as the city's main street, only the main street here runs on dumplings, noodles and bakery boxes. ... See Full Page

Midwick View Estates carries the grandest unfinished plan in Monterey Park's history, and you can still see it spilling down the hillside off Atlantic Boulevard. In the 1920s developer Peter Snyder set out to build an east side answer to Bel-Air and Beverly Hills here, then the Depression stopped the project with only a handful of houses built. ... See Full Page

Ramona Acres was Monterey Park's first subdivision, laid out in 1906 north of Garvey Avenue and east of Garfield, and more than a century later it still sits at the center of the city's daily life. The stretch of Atlantic Boulevard and Garvey Avenue running through it is lined with Chinese, Taiwanese and Vietnamese restaurants, bakeries and markets. ... See Full Page

Four city parks sit inside El Repetto, a hilly stretch of Monterey Park south of Garvey Avenue, and that green space is the first thing to know about it. The streets climb and curve, with cul-de-sacs and hillside lots that look out across the San Gabriel Valley. ... See Full Page

Brightwood fills Monterey Park's south side around East Los Angeles College, and the campus sets the rhythm here more than anything else. ... See Full Page