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Cahuenga, California

Cahuenga ( or "place of the hill" is a former Tongva–Tataviam Native American settlement in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.

Cahuenga, California
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The place

Cahuenga ( or "place of the hill" is a former Tongva–Tataviam Native American settlement in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. One source suggests kawe means mountain in Tongva language. Recent linguistic work suggests an alternative meaning of "place of the fox". The Tongva-language suffix -nga indicates place, and the suffix -bet or -bit indicates person from place; people from Cahuenga were recorded in mission registers as Capuebet.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cahuenga, California

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 – Hollywood Hills is one of the six Forest Lawn cemeteries in Southern California, United States. It is located at 6300 Forest Lawn Drive in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles.

    1.8 km · cemetery in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Griffith Park

    Griffith Park, sometimes shortened to Griffith, is a large municipal park in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains, ranging from the Los Feliz neighborhood, to the San Fernando Valley. The park includes popular attractions such as the Los Angeles Zoo, the Autry Museum of the American West, Griffith Observatory, and the Hollywood Sign.

    3.8 km · municipal park in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Universal Studios Hollywood

    Universal Studios Hollywood is a film studio and theme park located in Universal City, California, United States, near Hollywood, Los Angeles. Owned by NBCUniversal and operated by Universal Destinations & Experiences, it is one of the oldest and most famous Hollywood film studios still in use.

    3.7 km · amusement park in Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Mount Lee

    Mount Lee is a peak in the Santa Monica Mountains, located in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Hollywood Sign is located on its southern slope.

    2.9 km · Mountain in the Santa Monica Mountains of California, United States · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery

    Mount Sinai Memorial Park comprises two Jewish cemeteries in the Los Angeles area: Mount Sinai Hollywood Hills, established in 1953, and Mount Sinai Simi Valley, opened in 1997. Both cemeteries are administered by Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries, a nonprofit owned and operated by the Sinai Temple.

    1.5 km · Jewish cemetery in Los Angeles, California · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Warner Bros. Water Tower

    The Warner Bros. Water Tower is a historic water tower located at the Warner Bros.

    1.6 km · Historic water tower on the Warner Bros. Studios lot in Burbank, California; also the home of the Warner Siblings from "Animaniacs" · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Cahuenga Peak

    Cahuenga Peak is the 12th-highest named peak in the Santa Monica Mountains and is located just west of the Hollywood Sign. Cahuenga Peak is the highest peak in Griffith Park.

    2.6 km · mountain in United States of America · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Campo de Cahuenga

    Campo de Cahuenga is an adobe reproduction and memorial park located at the site of the signing of the 1847 Capitulation of Cahuenga, a ceasefire agreement which ended the Conquest of California. Situated at the north end of Cahuenga Pass, in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, the current structure was built in 1950 and serves as a historic interpretation center dedicated to the Capitulation of Cahuenga, signed between Lieutenant Colonel John C. Frémont, representing the American forces, and Captain Andrés Pico, representing the Californio forces.

    4 km · historic house in California, United States · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Burbank City Hall

    Burbank City Hall is the site of the municipal government of Burbank, California, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Designed by architects William Allen and W. George Lutzi in the Moderne or Art Deco style, ground was broken in February 1941 and construction was completed in 1943.

    3 km · City hall in California, United States · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St. Charles Borromeo Church

    St. Charles Borromeo Church is a Catholic church and elementary school in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

    3.8 km · Catholic church in North Hollywood, California, United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to Cahuenga, California

Airports
Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), 6 km · Los Angeles (LAX), 25 km · Long Beach (LGB), 42 km
Stations
Downtown Burbank station, 2.4 km · Grand Central Airport, 3.6 km
  • Long Beach → Cahuenga, California
    42 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · $4–6
  • Ontario → Cahuenga, California
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · $6–8
  • Santa Ana → Cahuenga, California
    3658 km · quickest by air, 13h 35m · $820–1,220
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cahuenga, California

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 Cahuenga, California. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundA landscaped walking trail follows the south bank of the Los Angeles River (just north of Ventura Boulevard), from Whitsett Avenue to Radford Avenue.

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

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  5. 05
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    10 ways of moving, 14 sources

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Around it

Next door to Cahuenga, California

Cahuenga, California is 14 km from Los Angeles, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.