The Best Los Angeles Instagram Spots (+10 Accounts to Follow)
Discover the best Los Angeles Instagram accounts to follow you can find hidden parts of the city, cool places to visit, and general LA Instagram spots.
Living in Los Angeles is sometimes an idyllic, sun-soaked dream. Other times, it’s an unnavigable sprawling mass of endless neighborhoods featuring a constant barrage of events and activities that leave you stuck at home, absolutely paralyzed with indecision.
It really depends on the day.
No matter how you’re feeling about LA at any given moment, I’m here to help. The following ten accounts are here to inspire you, help you explore the city, and of course, find the best Los Angeles Instagram spots.
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Best Los Angeles Instagram Spots (And How to Get There)
10 Great LA Instagram Accounts to Follow
Whether you’re looking for a great new restaurant to try, neighborhood to explore, a way to enrich your walks around town, or simply a stunning spot for photography, these accounts are here to point every day Angelenos in the right direction.
Even if you decide to stay on your couch (or don’t live in LA to begin with), following these IG accounts will give you a much greater appreciation for the diverse, sprawling, chaotic, fun, incredible city of LA.
Take a look at often-overlooked neighborhoods, the incredible assortment of cuisines available throughout the city, and the jaw-dropping California sunsets that illuminate the skies.
@LosAngelesBucketList
If you have a day off or a chill weekend coming up, @losangelesbucketlist is the account you’re going to want to check out.
LA is so huge and unwieldy as a city that it’s likely you could live here for a decade and still not get to everything it has to offer. I’ve been here almost 9 years. I would be lying if I said I’d truly explored more than 50-60% of the city.
Plus, new nightlife and food spots, museums, activities, and shops pop up every day. Keeping up with everything can be hard.
However, with @losangelesbucketlist you’ll get a good range of ideas about how to spend your free time in LA. You might even be inspired to try something new, like spending a retro day at the Moonlight Rollerway. Thanks to my lack of coordination, I will be skipping this particular suggestion.
Try the Broken Shaker rooftop bar (which is truly incredible – both cocktail and view wise), have an incredible meal at Bavel in downtown LA, or explore the quirky Lab Anti-Mall.
@DiscoverLA
As one of the official (blue checkmark and all) Instagram accounts of LA, @DiscoverLA shows off everything from incredible urban views to local spots of interest and new restaurants. You can check out the publication DiscoverLA for more information as well.
Follow this account to find out interesting information on LA history, events, and trivia. The pretty photos don’t hurt either.
@killakristenn
Whoever said LA isn’t a pretty city hasn’t taken a look at @killakristenn‘s account.
Kristen Bautista is an incredibly talented LA-based photographer. She uploads everything from mind-blowing sunsets to enchanting night shots. Her photos take you all across the City of Angels.
Beyond showing majestic photos of the Milky Way over Malibu, Kristen also highlights a lot of cool spots in the greater LA area. From Spring Street downtown to the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Kristen shows off a good variety of destinations around the city.
@LosAngeles_Eats
In LA, you will quickly find that the city’s best food is seldom found in its five star restaurants. It’s much more likely to be discovered in a truck or well-hidden-in-a-strip-mall food joint.
Whether you’re searching for some of the cuisine LA is most famous for (Mexican, Korean, good ol’ American burgers), or something a little harder to find, @LosAngeles_Eats has you covered.
The last few posts, as of this article, include colorful matcha bowls, mouthwatering uni pasta, and lamb al pastor dishes from some of the most delicious food joints around town, just to name a few. You will find incredible treats around town (and as a bonus: the most Instagrammable restaurants in Los Angeles).
Follow this account to become THAT person in your friend group. You know, the one who always knows where to get the best dishes. That’s a good person to be.
@asteryx – Terry McLaughlin
Terry McLaughlin is a fan of street photography, creative shots and lenses, and using plenty of cool, vintage cars in his compositions – in true LA style.
He has a unique way of looking at the world, and this translates to getting views of LA that you don’t always see in guidebooks. Terry also takes his camera on the road, and his captures of destinations around the world – including my hometown/favorite city of Athens, Greece – are stunning.
If you want to see some different corners of LA than you usually do, as well as shots all across the Southwest and California – check out Terry’s feed. Car people, especially, will get a lot of joy out of these professional shots.
@ArtbyArtLA
With a focus on urban, night, and sunset shots, @artbyartla showcases downtown LA and nights on the beach more so than the traditional sunny, pastel-tinted LA photos you tend to see on IG. A real estate photographer by trade, Art’s appreciation for architecture and urban design is obvious in his account, which has cool shots of the city skyline as well as landmarks like the Griffith Observatory.
His love of long exposure and use of light gives his photography a special look. Though most of his photos are LA-centered, Art also takes trips around the state of California, whether it’s up to the Bay Area or out to the desert.
Follow him to see some vibrant night, sunset, and most of all, architectural views of the Los Angeles area.
@abbyycox – Abby Cox
Abby is a travel and hospitality photographer with some incredible, sunny shots of the fun side of LA, as well as other destinations around the world. On her account, Abby Cox focus on a very clean aesthetic, and a lot of surf and sand to boot.
If you want to see shots of surf, chic hotels, palm trees, and beautiful models in said chic hotels, this is definitely the account for you. Check her out!
@dayzdandconfuzd
David Ingraham runs an almost exclusively black and white account over at @dayzdandconfuzd. His photos have a grittier, urban feel, and he prefers to highlight street scenes.
Many of his photos focus on the people and places of downtown LA. If you want a different, but equally representative look at the City of Angels, away from its famous beaches and hills, this is a great account to follow.
I always find that tourists and outsiders pigeonhole LA into a very specific image of a city; however, a massive, diverse city like this can’t just fit into one box. David’s account shows you another dimension of Angeleno reality.
@TreesofLA
“No one walks in LA” has to be one of the biggest lies I’ve ever heard. @TreesofLA is here to help make your walks more beautiful and cure your “tree blindness”, as the account states.
Of course there are a few (mostly residential) neighborhoods that are not conducive to walking and don’t have much of a Main Street.
However, if you live in one of several other LA neighborhoods – such as downtown, West Hollywood, Culver City, Santa Monica, Venice Beach, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Koreatown, Arts District, Hollywood, Miracle Mile, Chinatown, old Pasadena (should I go on?) – and are anywhere NEAR a central road, you can actually walk to a lot of places.
I genuinely like walking around LA, especially when flowers are blooming and the smells of jasmine and lavender fill the air.
@TreesofLA is here to make your walks a little more interesting and informative. The account managers are interested in preserving the beautiful urban forest that Los Angeles possesses, and seek to make pedestrians and others a little more aware of the stunning species they pass every day.
See if you can spot all the trees and flowers featured here on your LA walks!
@Joanna.Kalafatis
Let’s be real, I didn’t write a whole blog post on Instagram accounts just to not include my own account full of LA Instagram spots. However, I tried to keep it humble by putting my own account right at the very end – did it work?
While I do travel a fair amount, I was based in LA for the last several years.
Follow me to see my adventures and work around the world, but also my walks and explorations around LA and California!
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Excellent accounts, I started to follow the majority and there was a couple that I already was following, thanks for the great recommendation!
Thanks very much! Glad I could help