Riverside CA 92501

Downtown Riverside is known for the Mission Inn Museum, with local history exhibits in a Mission Revival hotel, and the Riverside Art Museum, showing contemporary global art. Mt. Rubidoux Park centers on a landmark hill topped with a cross, while Fairmount Park offers tennis courts, rose gardens, and fishing in Lake Evans. The area’s walkable heart has a mix of burger and BBQ joints, plus French and Italian eateries.

Anchored by two historic performing arts centers managed by Live Nation, downtown Riverside offers the best in nightlife and entertainment, all within steps of the Riverside Convention Center and downtown hotels. A lively restaurant, bar/pub and nightclub scene is a constant in downtown Riverside, with numerous annual festivals, including the famed six-week Festival of Lights (the Top Holiday Lighting event in the United States), the Lunar Fest, and Dicken’s Festival regularly enlivening downtown.

Within steps of the Riverside Convention Center and downtown hotels, guests will enjoy Main Street Riverside and its unique boutiques, restaurants & pubs, and specialty dessert shops. Nightlife is active here. LIVE NATION manages two historic performing arts venues – The Fox Performing Arts Theater and the Riverside Municipal Auditorium & Events Center. It’s no wonder the nation’s most prominent business magazine named Riverside the #8 Coolest City and the #2 Millennial Boomtown in America. And to top it off, Riverside’s Festival of Lights was named as the #1 America’s Best Public Holiday Lights Display in 2014 and #1 Best Holiday Festival in 2015 by the nation’s largest national newspaper. It’s time to visit Riverside.