Official visitor guide and company offering Los Angeles boat rentals, jet skis, waverunners, water toys, and outdoor adventure boat tours and water sport recreational activities for families, businesses, and individuals in California's freshwater lakes, rivers, and reservoirs that allow motorized watercraft. Los Angeles is often known by its initials L.A., it is the most populous city in the state of California and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. Los Angeles is both flat and hilly and has many parks and recreation areas to enjoy; camping, biking, hiking, fishing, surfing, skate boarding, jogging, flyboard water jet packs, and more.
The highest point in the city is 5,074 feet Mount Lukens, located at the northeastern end of the San Fernando Valley where tourist from around the world come to enjoy rock climbing, mountain biking, and Los Angels jet ski rentals at lakes close by. The eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains stretches from Downtown to the Pacific Ocean and separates the Los Angeles Basin from the San Fernando Valley. Other hilly parts of Los Angeles include the Mount Washington area north of Downtown, eastern parts such as Boyle Heights, the Crenshaw district around the Baldwin Hills, and the San Pedro district. In the coldest month, January, the temperature typically ranges from 59 to 73 °F during the day and 45 to 55 °F at night. In the warmest month – August – the temperature typically ranges from 79 to 90 °F during the day and around 64 °F at night.
Los Angeles is often billed as the "Creative Capital of the World", due to the fact that one in every six of its residents works in a creative industry. According to the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, "there are more artists, writers, filmmakers, actors, dancers and musicians living and working in Los Angeles than any other city at any time in the history of civilization." Los Angeles is home to Hollywood, globally recognized as the epicenter of the motion picture industry. A testament to its preeminence in film, the city plays host to the annual Academy Awards, the oldest and one of the most prominent award ceremonies in the world. Finally, Los Angeles is home to the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the oldest film school in the United States.