LA28 Venues, City by City
From a swimming pool inside SoFi Stadium to cricket in Pomona and softball in Oklahoma City — every confirmed LA28 venue, what it hosts, and how spectators will actually get there.
LA28 will be the first Olympics in 80 years to build no new permanent venues — the Games are being poured into stadiums and arenas Southern California already owns, stretched across zones from the San Fernando Valley to San Clemente, with outposts as far away as Oklahoma City and six soccer cities across the country. Here is the spectator's map as it stands: every confirmed venue, what it hosts, and how you'll get there, drawn from LA28's official announcements and the local reporting around them. The Olympics run July 14-30, 2028, with the Paralympics August 15-27.
Inglewood: the ceremonies and the pool
The Games open with a first: a dual-venue Opening Ceremony split between SoFi Stadium and the LA Memorial Coliseum. SoFi then converts into the largest swimming venue in Olympic history — a temporary pool with capacity reported around 38,000. Next door, the Clippers' Intuit Dome takes basketball.
Exposition Park and Downtown
The Coliseum (77,500) hosts track and field and the Closing Ceremony, making it the first venue in the world to stage the Games three times (1932, 1984, 2028). Across the park, BMO Stadium (22,000) is the home of the two American-flavored debutants, flag football and lacrosse sixes, and USC's Galen Center takes badminton and rhythmic gymnastics. Downtown, per LA28's April 2025 venue plan, the Crypto.com Arena/Peacock Theater cluster hosts artistic gymnastics, trampoline, boxing and weightlifting, while Dodger Stadium (56,000) gets baseball. Universal Studios' lot hosts squash — a movie-backlot Olympic debut reachable on Metro's B line.
Long Beach: the second Olympic city
Long Beach carries the coastal load: Alamitos Beach (beach volleyball), the Long Beach Arena (handball, 13,500), the waterfront for coastal rowing and open-water swimming, a temporary climbing venue and target-shooting hall at the Convention Center, and artistic swimming and other aquatic events in the harbor zone — most of it a walk from the Metro A line's southern end.
Carson, Pasadena and the Valley
Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson is a mini-Olympic park of its own: archery and rugby sevens in the stadium, tennis at its tennis center, track cycling in the VELO Sports Center velodrome, and field hockey on its fields. Pasadena's Rose Bowl (~90,000) stages the men's and women's soccer finals, with the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center hosting diving. And in a first for the San Fernando Valley, the Sepulveda Basin becomes a purpose-built temporary cluster for 3x3 basketball, modern pentathlon, BMX racing and freestyle, and both skateboarding disciplines. Venice Beach — added to the plan after City Council pushback — anchors the triathlon and the marathon and road-cycling starts.
The outer ring
The plan leans on Southern California's geography. Santa Anita Park in Arcadia (equestrian) sits beside the A line. Honda Center in Anaheim (indoor volleyball) is on Metrolink and Amtrak. The Pomona Fairgrounds hosts cricket's first Olympic matches since 1900 — 28 matches on a purpose-built temporary ground — served by a new Fairplex-adjacent rail station. Shotgun shooting goes to South El Monte, and surfing runs at Lower Trestles near San Clemente, one of the best waves on the American mainland, where reporting has floated a temporary Metrolink stop. Golf is slated for Riviera Country Club.
Beyond California
Two sports leave the state entirely, a 2024 decision LA28 chairman Casey Wasserman defended as delivering "the right games for L.A., not change L.A. to fit the games": softball at Devon Park in Oklahoma City — the home of college softball's World Series — and canoe slalom at Riversport OKC's artificial whitewater course, since no Olympic-level slalom channel exists in the western US. Soccer's group stages spread to six stadiums nationwide: San Diego's Snapdragon Stadium plus venues in New York, Columbus, Nashville, St. Louis and San Jose.
Getting there: transit-first, asterisk included
LA28 once promised a "car-free" Games and has since softened that into something more like transit-first. Wasserman's own framing — "our city is designed for people to drive their cars to events" — drew scrutiny, but as Torched's analysis notes, the venue plan itself does most of the work: nearly every site clusters along existing rail. The B line reaches Universal; the A line strings together Long Beach and Santa Anita; Metrolink and Amtrak serve Anaheim and the Trestles corridor; the new Fairplex-area station opened for Pomona. The honest exceptions: Dodger Stadium's famous last-mile problem, and the park-and-ride network (modeled on the Hollywood Bowl's) that will have to carry everything the trains don't.
Still to be finalized
A few assignments remain officially open: LA28's April 2025 announcement left water polo, sailing and some aquatic details to be confirmed, and the full Paralympic venue plan is still to come. We'll update this guide as those land. But the shape of the Games is set — and its bet is unmistakable. Paris spent billions building; LA is spending on buses, pools that vanish in September 2028, and the wager that a region built for sport can simply host one.