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Encino

Encino is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California.

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The place

Encino is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Encino

9 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
    Proto-Cathedral of St. Mary

    The Proto-Cathedral of St. Mary or Proto-Cathedral of St.

    3.2 km · church in California, United States of America · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Valley Beth Shalom

    Valley Beth Shalom is a Conservative synagogue at 15739 Ventura Boulevard in Encino, Los Angeles, California, in the United States. With approximately 1,500 member families, it is one of the largest synagogues in Los Angeles and one of the largest Conservative synagogues in the United States.

    2.2 km · conservative synagogue in Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    The Japanese Garden

    The Japanese Garden is a 6.5-acre public Japanese garden in Los Angeles, located in the Lake Balboa district in the central San Fernando Valley, adjacent to the Van Nuys and Encino neighborhoods. It is specifically on the grounds of the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant adjacent to Woodley Park, in the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area.

    3.3 km · Japanese garden located on the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in Van Nuys, California, USA · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Leo Magnus Cricket Complex

    The Leo Magnus Cricket Complex or Sepulveda Basin Cricket Fields, aka Woodley Park, is a group of five cricket grounds located in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. The facility is also called Woodley Cricket Field or Woodley Cricket Complex due to its location in Woodley Park.

    3.3 km · Cricket ground in Los Angeles, California · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bel Air Presbyterian Church

    Bel Air Church is a Presbyterian church located in Los Angeles, California. Its campus is located on Mulholland Drive in the Encino neighborhood.

    3.5 km · church in CA, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Sherman Oaks Galleria

    Sherman Oaks Galleria is an open-air shopping mall and business center located in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, at the corner of Ventura and Sepulveda Boulevards in the San Fernando Valley. The teenage mall culture which formed around it and nearby malls formed the basis of the 1982 satirical song "Valley Girl" by Frank Zappa and daughter Moon Zappa, which mentions the Galleria by name, though it misattributes its location as Encino, which it abuts.

    3.1 km · Shopping mall in Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Woodley Park

    Woodley Park is a recreation area managed by the City of Los Angeles and located along Woodley Avenue between Victory and Burbank Boulevards in the Lake Balboa neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The area is located within the large Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area in the central San Fernando Valley.

    3.2 km · park in Sepulveda Basin, Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Rancho Los Encinos

    Rancho Los Encinos was a Spanish grazing concession, and later Mexican land granted cattle and sheep rancho and travelers way-station on the El Camino Real in the San Fernando Valley, in present-day Encino, Los Angeles County, California. The original 19th-century adobe and limestone structures and natural Encino Springs are now within the Los Encinos State Historic Park.

    2.5 km · building in California, United States · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Encino Reservoir

    The Encino Reservoir, is a controlled lake created by the damming of Encino creek. It is located near the Encino neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley, California.

    2 km · reservoir located in Encino, Los Angeles, California · 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 Encino

Airports
Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), 14 km · Los Angeles (LAX), 26 km · Long Beach (LGB), 50 km
Stations
Balboa station, 3 km · Woodley, 3.4 km
  • Long Beach → Encino
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · $5–7
  • Santa Ana → Encino
    61 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · $8–11
  • Ontario → Encino
    79 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · $7–10
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Encino

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 Encino. 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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    Port Townsend and the Olympic PeninsulaUS

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,592 km
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  3. 03
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,728 km
  4. 04
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    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    1,744 km
  5. 05
    Courtenay, Comox and the Comox ValleyCA

    10 ways of moving, 14 sources

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If you know how people move in Encino – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Encino

Encino is 26 km from Los Angeles, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.