Mammoth Marvel Will "Park" in La Mirada Monday March 5th
La Mirada~The Great Granite is coming to La Mirada!
The 340-ton granite megalith that will form part of Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is scheduled to arrive in La Mirada in the early morning hours tonight after traveling through the Whittier Hills, down Colima Road during the night.
It will be “parked” at La Mirada Blvd and Leffingwell Road all day Monday, March 5th.
Then, late Monday night and early Tuesday morning, the Great Granite will continue its trek, continuing westbound on Leffingwell Road, turning left and traveling southbound on Valley View Avenue, then making a right at Rosecrans Avenue. It will travel westbound on Rosecrans, turn southbound on Carmenita Road in Norwalk, then on to its next “parking spot” in Cerritos.
You can follow the Bodacious Boulder's every move and get some great viewing tips by utilizing the excellent “Gawker's Guide” from the LACMA, which provides continuous updates.
After months of delays, the mammoth marvel left its quarry in Riverside County on February 28th and will make its way across four counties, 22 cities and 110 miles of s
urface streets to its home at LACMA. The journey for the rock will take a total of eleven nights, traveling about 8 miles per hour and only during the hours of 11:00pm and 5:00am.
The Rock will also be tweeting while it moves across the area, providing you with traffic updates and looking for things to do while it is not in transit during the day!
You can follow on Twitter @LACMARock to interact with the megalith or simply use the hashtag #LevitatedMass.
Photo LACMA
