Live cameras in Lakewood, United States

Lakewood is a city of about 82,500 people (2020 census) in southeast Los Angeles County, on about 9.5 square miles between Long Beach, Bellflower, Cerritos and Hawaiian Gardens. Few places in America are as closely tied to the story of the postwar suburb. Starting in 1949, developers Louis Boyar, Mark Taper and Ben Weingart turned former farmland into thousands of affordable homes for returning veterans and young families, and at the peak of building a new house was finished every seven and a half minutes. Lakewood Center, now one of the largest shopping centers in the country, opened in 1951 at the heart of the plan.

When residents voted to become a city in 1954, Lakewood was the largest community in the country ever to incorporate at that time. It also invented what became known as the Lakewood Plan, buying police, fire and other services from Los Angeles County by contract instead of building its own departments. Many California cities copied the idea. Today it is a quiet place of tidy streets, parks and ranch houses, with the San Gabriel River and its bike path along the east side.

The cameras on this page are Caltrans highway cameras within about 15 km of the city. They are official, public domain still images that refresh every few minutes. The San Gabriel River Freeway (I-605) runs along Lakewood's eastern edge, and views here also include nearby stretches of the Artesia Freeway (SR 91) and the San Diego Freeway (I-405), which meets I-605 just to the south in Seal Beach.

Lakewood is on Pacific Time, UTC minus 8 in winter and minus 7 during daylight time. Weekday mornings and late afternoons are the busiest on these freeways. Inland from the coast, Lakewood often sees the morning marine layer of May and June clear earlier than the beaches do, and late fall brings crisp, bright days.

Next door, Long Beach adds a coral reef stream from the Aquarium of the Pacific, and a little to the west, Carson has cameras along the freeways that serve the harbor and its big soccer stadium.

Sources: Lakewood, California - Wikipedia · Interstate 605 - Wikipedia · Caltrans CCTV documentation.