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Lynwood

Lynwood is a suburban city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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The place

Lynwood is a suburban city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. At the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 67,265, down from 69,772 at the 2010 census. Lynwood is located near South Gate and Compton in the central portion of the Los Angeles Basin. Incorporated in 1921, Lynwood was named after the Lynwood Dairy and Creamery, from which the local station of the Pacific Electric Railway had been named.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Lynwood

Airports
Long Beach (LGB), 13 km · Los Angeles (LAX), 19 km · Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), 34 km
  • Santa Ana → Lynwood
    3636 km · quickest by air, 13h 29m · $810–1,220
  • Ontario → Lynwood
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · $5–7
  • San Bernardino → Lynwood
    87 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · $8–11
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lynwood

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 Lynwood. 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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    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,623 km
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  3. 03
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    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,759 km
  4. 04
    Gibsons and the Sunshine CoastCA

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    1,775 km
  5. 05
    Courtenay, Comox and the Comox ValleyCA

    10 ways of moving, 14 sources

    1,838 km

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Next door to Lynwood

Lynwood is 15 km from Los Angeles, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.