LA 2028 in Downtown LA: Six Venues, One Walk, and the Data to Get Round Them

Most of LA28 asks you to cross a county. Downtown asks you to cross a street. Four of the zone's six venues sit close enough together that you could take in artistic gymnastics in the morning and judo in the afternoon entirely on foot, which makes the DTLA Zone the best value on the whole map for anyone buying more than one ticket.

Then there is Dodger Stadium, just north of downtown, up a hill, and reachable by road alone.

The walkable four

DTLA Arena is Crypto.com Arena under its Games name, home to the Lakers, Sparks and Kings. LA28 has given it artistic gymnastics, trampoline gymnastics, boxing and wheelchair basketball, which is a heavier programme than any other indoor venue at the Games.

The LA Convention Center splits into three competition halls, and between them they run a remarkable amount of sport. Hall 1 takes fencing, taekwondo, para taekwondo and wheelchair fencing. Hall 2 takes judo, para judo, wrestling and boccia. Hall 3 takes table tennis and para table tennis. The building has form here: it was the Main Press Headquarters at the 1984 Games.

Peacock Theater, next door, has one of the largest indoor stages in the country and holds boxing, weightlifting, goalball and para powerlifting.

Four venues, one campus. If you are trying to see a lot of Olympic sport on a short trip, this is where to aim your ticket applications.

And then Dodger Stadium

Olympic baseball goes to Dodger Stadium, the oldest Major League ballpark on the West Coast, which held exhibition baseball at the 1984 Games when the sport first appeared at a US Olympics.

Two things to know. First, the tournament starts early. LA28's competition schedule has baseball under way on Day -1, before the Opening Ceremony, in a window built to make it easier for MLB players to take part. If you are flying in for the ceremony, baseball may already be running when you land.

Second, getting there works differently from the rest of the zone. Dodger Stadium sits on a hill north of downtown, served by road rather than rail. Historically that has meant a shuttle bus from Union Station, a rideshare, or a long uphill walk from Chinatown. Whichever you pick, you will be looking at your phone to find it.

What a downtown day costs in data

The walkable cluster changes the usage profile. Instead of one long journey each way, you get a lot of short lookups: which hall is Hall 2, where the entrance for this session is, whether there is time to eat between sessions, what the queue at the next gate looks like.

The heavy items are still the same:

• Mobile tickets, one per session, each loading at a busy gate.
• Live transit and maps, especially if you are pairing a downtown session with Dodger Stadium.
• Group chats, translation and clips.

Call it 1 to 3 GB for a full day, toward the upper end if you are doing two sessions.

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Why roaming is the expensive answer

Leaving the phone as it is means your home carrier bills you a daily fee for every day you use it. Over a fortnight of Games that is a three-figure number in most currencies, and the fee often fires on background app refresh before you have opened anything yourself.

The fix takes two minutes: turn data roaming off on the home line, keep it active for calls and two-factor codes, and run all data over the eSIM. Full pricing comparisons are in our LA 2028 eSIM guide.

Setup

1. Buy a US plan and wait for the email saying your QR code is ready on the website.
2. Install the profile over home Wi-Fi. It stays dormant until you arrive in the US.
3. On landing, make the Lotsotravel eSIM your active data line in Settings.
4. Keep the home SIM on for calls, texts and two-factor codes.
5. Switch data roaming off on the home line.

The same plan covers Inglewood, Exposition Park, Long Beach and everywhere else on the LA28 map. The full venue directory is on our LA 2028 hub.