La Brea Pitch Lake Tour Guide: Gavin Charles

More needs to be done to promote the area,” he adds, but also observed that some level of infrastructural development needs to be looked at.

“There should be some activity for children when they get here, more options in terms of food and drink for when people come too. Visitors often are looking to sample local rums and alcohol on these trips,” he adds.

As for residents, he has observed that about 25% of the residents benefit from investments in the area with about 75% of the work force coming from outside.

“The Mitsubishi plant is likely to be more of the same and residents know little about it.” There has been a definite slow down in visitors to this wonder of the world and he also noted that proper facilities need to be added to match visitors’ expectations which would likely increase the number of arrivals to the site.

“In this economy, we don’t know what’s really happening – whatever the people are working for in La Brea isn’t as much as it should be plus land and building tax coming, so things (are) going to get much harder.” Still he remains hopeful that the summer period would improve visitor arrivals.