Visiting Los Angeles from San Francisco over the July 4th weekend. Any ideas of good places to stay?

[Tarzanrock]

2. I would get the lodging reservations in as soon as you can.

Hotels and motels may fill up over the Independence Day holiday week.
Here's 10 places to go and see:
Getty art museum in Malibu and Brentwood;
Zuma Beach and Point Dume;
Los Angeles County Museum of Art and La Brea Tar pits;
Broad Museum in downtown L.A.;
The Huntington in Pasadena;
Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena;
The L.A. Zoo;
Griffith Park Observatory;
Mt. Wilson Observatory;
Road trip to Joshua Tree National Park.