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Northwood

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Northwood

5 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
    Islamic Center of Irvine

    The Islamic Center of Irvine is a mosque and Islamic community center founded by the Muslims of Irvine, California, on August 28, 2004. The mosque has one of the largest congregations in California, with an estimated 2,500 worshipers attending weekly programs and benefiting from a variety of services, including youth programs, an annual summer camp for children, senior workshops and interfaith sports.

    2 km · mosque in Irvine, California · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Northwood Gratitude and Honor Memorial

    The Northwood Gratitude and Honor Memorial is a memorial in Irvine, California, to American troops who died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The names on the memorial come from US DoD casualty records for Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation New Dawn.

    800 m · memorial in California · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Blue Gum Park

    Northwood is a community encompassing the northern portions of the city of Irvine, in Orange County, California. It covers the area enclosed by the Santa Ana Freeway, Culver Drive, Portola Parkway and Jeffrey Road.

    1.2 km · park in Irvine, CA, USA · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Brywood Park

    Park in California, United States of America, United States of America

    1.1 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Heritage Park

    Heritage Community Park is located in the city of Irvine in Orange County, California. The park sits next to Heritage Park Regional Library on the corner of Yale and Walnut Avenues, and is adjacent to Irvine High School.

    2.2 km · city park in Irvine, 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.

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Getting to Northwood

Airports
John Wayne Orange County (SNA), 11 km · Long Beach (LGB), 38 km · Ontario (ONT), 41 km
  • Ontario → Northwood
    40 km · quickest by road, 59 min · $4–5
  • San Bernardino → Northwood
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · $6–8
  • Los Angeles → Northwood
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · $5–7
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Northwood

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThere are over 45 miles of off-road bicycle trails and 282 miles of on-road bicycle lanes provided in Irvine.

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Port Townsend and the Olympic PeninsulaUS

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,655 km
  2. 021,745 km
  3. 03
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,792 km
  4. 04
    Gibsons and the Sunshine CoastCA

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    1,807 km
  5. 05
    Courtenay, Comox and the Comox ValleyCA

    10 ways of moving, 14 sources

    1,872 km

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Around it

Next door to Northwood

Northwood is 11 km from Santa Ana, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.