Sky & Swim · CA
Los Angeles invented the rooftop-pool-as-lifestyle, and it shows — from a Gehry deck over downtown to a saltwater edge above the Pacific, the only hard part is picking which skyline you want in the water.
6 picks · Hollywood & Downtown
A rooftop terrace of 16,000 square feet atop Gehry's Grand LA, with an infinity pool and cabanas looking straight across downtown to the Walt Disney Concert Hall. One of the largest and most architecturally serious rooftop pools in the city — though the deck itself is Tara Bernerd's work, not Gehry's.
The rooftop pool most likely to end up in your camera roll — the Hollywood Sign, the Hills and downtown all in the frame from eleven floors up, with Bar Lis alongside. Know what it is before you book: a heated four-foot lounging pool, not somewhere to swim laps.
One of the very few rooftop pools on the Westside — heated, on the top deck, with a panorama of the Pacific, the coastline and the mountains. Alcoves and daybeds run the edge, and the poolside kitchen leans Balearic. Laps with an ocean in the frame.
A 7th-floor pool with a genuine 360 — Hollywood Sign to Downtown to the ocean — and one of the biggest rooftop pool decks in Hollywood. More swimmable and less precious than its neighbors.
A 5th-floor rooftop pool tucked into the Hollywood Hills with six named cabanas, an outdoor lounge, and a skyline-and-hills panorama. Heated and open year-round — the calmer, more design-driven Hollywood rooftop.
A lagoon-colored rooftop pool beside Inanna Bar, with a wide-open downtown skyline view and — unusually for LA — an operator who commits to opening it every day of the year. The Hoxton's usual knack for a good-looking rooftop, applied to Broadway.