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Atwater Village

Atwater Village is a neighborhood in the 13th district of Los Angeles, California.

Atwater Village
Atwater Village · Timothy A. Gonsalves
The place

Atwater Village is a neighborhood in the 13th district of Los Angeles, California. Much of Atwater Village lies in the fertile Los Angeles River flood plain. Located in the northeast region of the city, Atwater Village borders Griffith Park and Silver Lake to the west, Glendale to the north and east and Glassell Park to the south. The eastern boundary is essentially the railroad tracks. The area has three elementary schools—two public and one private. Almost half the residents were born abroad, a high percentage for the city of Los Angeles.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Atwater Village

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Forest Lawn Memorial Park

    Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately owned cemetery in Glendale, California, United States. It is the original and current flagship location of Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries, a chain of six cemeteries and four additional mortuaries in Southern California.

    1.6 km · cemetery in Glendale, California · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hollyhock House

    The Hollyhock House is a house museum at Barnsdall Art Park in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. The house, designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the heiress Aline Barnsdall, is named for the hollyhock-inspired motifs in its design.

    3.9 km · house in Los Angeles, California · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Lovell House

    The Lovell House or Lovell Health House is an International style modernist residence designed and built by Richard Neutra between 1927 and 1929. The home, located at 4616 Dundee Drive in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, was built for the physician and naturopath Philip Lovell.

    2.9 km · historic house in California, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Barnsdall Art Park

    Barnsdall Art Park is a city park located in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Parking and arts buildings access is from Hollywood Boulevard on the north side of the park.

    3.9 km · park located in Los Angeles, California · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Museum of Neon Art

    The Museum of Neon Art, in Glendale, California, United States, is an art museum that exhibits historic neon signs, and electric and kinetic art. The collection notably includes neon signs from the Brown Derby and Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

    3.1 km · art museum in Glendale, California · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Shakespeare Bridge

    The Shakespeare Bridge, officially the Franklin Avenue Bridge, in the Franklin Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, was built in 1926. It is made of concrete and decorated in a Gothic style, with eight turrets.

    2.5 km · historic-cultural monument in Los Angeles · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Canfield-Moreno Estate

    The Canfield-Moreno Estate is a historic residence and estate located in the Moreno Highlands neighborhood of Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California. It was designated as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1988.

    2.7 km · building in California, United States · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Mattachine Steps

    The Mattachine Steps, also known as the Cove Avenue stairway, is an outdoor staircase in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California, dedicated to the Mattachine Society in 2012 in memory of Harry Hay, who cofounded the gay rights group. The stairs are on the hillside where Hay founded the Society on November 11, 1950.

    2.4 km · outdoor staircase in Silver Lake, Los Angeles · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Lipetz House

    Lipetz House is a house in Los Angeles designed by Raphael Soriano, and built in 1936. The building was Soriano's first residential commission, and arose from his knowledge and passion for both language and music.

    2.8 km · historic site · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Silver Lake Reservoir

    The Silver Lake Reservoir Complex comprises two concrete-lined basins, Ivanhoe Reservoir and Silver Lake, divided by a spillway, in the Silver Lake community of Los Angeles, California.

    1.9 km · water supply reservoir for the city of Los Angeles, CA, US · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Atwater Village

Airports
Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), 13 km · Los Angeles (LAX), 24 km · Long Beach (LGB), 35 km
Stations
Vermont/Sunset, 3.8 km · Glendale Transportation Center, 800 m · Atwater Tract Office, 800 m
  • Santa Ana → Atwater Village
    3652 km · quickest by air, 13h 42m · $820–1,230
  • Ontario → Atwater Village
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · $5–7
  • San Bernardino → Atwater Village
    89 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · $8–11
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Atwater Village

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Atwater Village. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAir taxi and air charter companies including Los Angeles Private Jets can access private aircraft at any of L.A.'s private aviation airports, as well as planes in your area for flights to Los Angeles.
  • Get inIf you're thinking of using Metrolink to day trip on the weekend, you'll want to get the $10 weekend day pass, which is good for unlimited travel on Metrolink (and connecting transit) on either Saturday or Sunday.
  • Get inLong Beach also has party boats for large groups such as the Majorca and Ibizza by OnBoat, https://onboat.co/product/long-beach-yacht-charter-115-feet-party-yacht-majorca/ San Pedro has a cruise ship terminal that all of the major cruise ship lines (except Carnival) sail from.

From Wikivoyage: Los Angeles, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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  3. 03
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  4. 04
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If you know how people move in Atwater Village – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Atwater Village

Atwater Village is 7 km from Los Angeles, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Silver Lakeneighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States2.6 km
  • Los Felizneighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States2.7 km
  • Northwest Los Angeleshuman settlement in Los Angeles, California, United States of America4 km
  • Glassell Parkneighborhood in Los Angeles, California, United States2.1 km
  • Elysian Valleyneighborhood in Los Angeles, California, United States of America2.9 km
  • Sunset Junctionhuman settlement in Los Angeles, California, United States of America3.5 km