Visitor route
Build a Downtown arts day
An original, source-linked way to connect Downtown Pomona arts, culture, food, shopping, and practical arrival planning.
Local Pomona · California
Find your way into Pomona.
Build a day around documented places, local culture, and the current sources that make the details easier to verify.
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Need a practical starting point?
Ask one Pomona planning question and get a short answer with the responsible local source.
How sources are chosen →Sources and limits: answers use a limited registry of City of Pomona, Fairplex, Downtown Pomona, and Cal Poly Pomona sources. They cannot confirm tickets, hours, prices, safety, medical, legal, or emergency information.
Source-linked planningOfficial handoffs for the details that change.
Documented placesGuides begin with durable Pomona destinations.
No invented rankings or city metricsUseful context without unsupported claims.
Start here
Choose your Pomona starting point.
One quick path for a day out, a local errand, or a source-backed question.
First visit
Your first Pomona visit, in three moves.
Choose one durable route, use the responsible source for changing details, and leave room to explore.
- 01
Choose your anchor
Start with Downtown arts and culture or a Fairplex event day—two distinct ways into Pomona.
- 02
Check the live details
Schedules, entry rules, tickets, parking, and access can change. Verify current details with the organizer before leaving.
Open official event sources → - 03
Plan the arrival
Use current parking, transit, and route sources instead of assuming one event’s instructions apply to another.
Parking and transit links →
Plan with purpose
Explore all starting points →Pick a Pomona guide
Original planning routes for a day in the city—built from durable places and responsible source handoffs.
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Visitor route
Plan a Fairplex visit
A source-linked Pomona Fairplex planning page with event, travel, and nearby-place handoffs.
Visitor route
Build a Pomona family day
A careful family-day planning route through durable Pomona parks, library, museum, and campus resources.
Visitor route
Explore Pomona history and architecture
A source-linked starting route for Pomona historic districts, landmark records, and preservation-minded exploration.
Explore locally
Open full directory →Find a Pomona place
Search a curated starting directory. Listings link to official sources and show when information was reviewed.
Attractions · Fairplex and Ganesha
Fairplex
Fairplex is a major Pomona event campus and the home of the LA County Fair. Use its official calendar for current fairs, exhibitions, motorsports, educational events and visitor instructions.
Museums · Downtown Pomona and the Arts Colony
American Museum of Ceramic Art
AMOCA presents ceramics through exhibitions, collections, outreach and studio programming. Check the museum directly for current exhibitions and visiting details.
Arts & Culture · Downtown Pomona and the Arts Colony
Fox Theater Pomona
The Fox Theater is a Downtown Pomona live-event venue. Use only the official calendar and ticketing links for event dates, age restrictions and entry policies.
Civic Resources
Civic Resources · Downtown Pomona and the Arts Colony
Pomona Public Library
The city library offers circulating materials, reference help, internet access, digital resources and programs for children, teens and adults.
Parks · North Pomona and Palomares
Palomares Park
Palomares Park is a north Pomona city park and community-center location on Arrow Highway. Use the city calendar for programs and the recreation department for rentals.
Shopping · Cal Poly Pomona and Spadra
Cal Poly Pomona Farm Store at Kellogg Ranch
The Farm Store at AGRIscapes sells products that include produce from Cal Poly Pomona's campus farm, orchards, nursery and greenhouses.
Today in Pomona
A practical local dashboard
Weather and air quality refresh from a live data service. Gas and transit link to current provider information.
Fuel
Compare gas prices
Live third-party price sources with update-time guidance.
ConditionsLive weather · AQI —
Pomona conditions refreshed throughout the day.
Getting aroundCommute planner
Official road, Metrolink, Metro, and bus alerts.
PhotographyGolden hour
Today’s approximate sunrise, sunset, and photo-light window.
Fresh calendar
All events and sources →Upcoming in Pomona
Automatically collected from official Fairplex, Downtown Pomona, Cal Poly Pomona, and City meeting sources. Coverage is useful, not exhaustive.
Checking official calendars…
Shop Local
Find Pomona businesses—and help yours get discovered.
Browse reviewed local listings, current offers, and clearly labeled featured businesses. Pomona business owners can request a listing or apply for paid placement.
Sponsored placement
Available to Pomona businesses
Put your business in front of local customers.
Featured cards can include your approved photo, description, website, offer, and map link. Every paid spot is labeled.
Check placement availability →Know the city
All area guides →Explore Pomona by area
Start with character and location—not invented rankings. Verify boundaries before making housing or travel decisions.
city-recognized planning and business district
Downtown Pomona and the Arts Colony
Downtown is Pomona's most concentrated arts, dining and entertainment district. Build a visit around Second Street galleries, the Fox Theater, local restaurants, vintage retail, museums and the Downtown Pomona station.
Downtown shopping subdistrict
Antique Row
Antique Row is the Downtown stretch for antiques, records, collectibles and vintage browsing. Pair it with galleries, lunch and other Second Street stops rather than treating it as a separate neighborhood.
official residential historic district
Lincoln Park Historic District
Lincoln Park is best covered as a residential historic district anchored by its namesake park. Emphasize architecture and neighborhood context without implying that every nearby property lies inside the official district.
official residential historic district
Wilton Heights Historic District
Wilton Heights is one of Pomona's three city-identified residential historic districts. Keep coverage focused on architectural character, preservation resources and nearby Downtown destinations.
Pomona in frames
Architecture, parks, and the city’s cultural gateways.
Take a visual route through documented Pomona places, then use the guide links for practical planning details.
Explore Pomona guides →Arts, music and events
Downtown after dark. Fairplex on event days. Local museums year-round.
Pomona’s calendar changes quickly, so our guides send you to the organizer for final dates, tickets, age rules, and parking.
Shop Local
Meet local businesses
Independent, unpaid starting points—not endorsements. Browse business details here; services and locations can change.
Eat & Drink
Homage Brewing
Pomona brewery and tasting-room destination with an official menu and visitor information source.
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Eat & Drink
Hilltop Jamaican Restaurant & Lounge
Downtown Pomona restaurant with an official menu, visitor details, and catering information.
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Eat & Drink
Luchador Bar & Kitchen
Downtown Pomona restaurant with official menu, reservation, and event-planning information.
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Photo credits
Photography used on this page
Credits identify each photographer, source record, and license. Some web-ready images were cropped or compressed from the source file.
Fairplex, Pomona
TheRealThummer, “L.A. County Fair at Dusk (cropped),” public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Source on Wikimedia Commons ↗ Public domain — creator dedication (PD-self) ↗
Pomona Arts Colony, Downtown Pomona
Photo by kl91711, “Downtown Pomona 03,” CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped from the original if applicable.
Palomares Park, Pomona
Photo by Jcsalguero, “Palomares Park, Pomona, CA,” CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped from the original if applicable.
Pomona, historical image
Unknown photographer, California Historical Society Collection/USC Libraries Special Collections, “Exterior view of the Pomona Railroad Station, ca. 1906 (CHS-5224),” public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Source on Wikimedia Commons ↗ Public domain in the United States — published before 1929 (Commons PD-1923 tag) ↗
Downtown Pomona
MarsRover, “Pomona Fox Theater,” public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Source on Wikimedia Commons ↗ Public domain — released by the photographer through PD-user-w ↗
Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona
Photo by King of Hearts, “Encinitas Hall Pomona August 2011,” CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped from the original if applicable.
Downtown Pomona
Photo by kl91711, “Downtown Pomona 04,” CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped from the original if applicable.
Lincoln Park Historic District, Pomona
Photo by Einbierbitte, “Lincoln Park Historic District,” CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped from the original if applicable.
See the complete image-credit record for all approved Local Pomona photography.