--- title: "Ontario – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Ontario, United States: city 26 km from Riverside. Nearby: Montclair Transcenter, Baitul Hameed Mosque, Frankish Building. Every way there from the…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ontario" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ontario.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- City · United States · California # Ontario What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Ontario 7 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. Montclair Transcenter The Montclair Transit Center is an intermodal transit center located at 5091 Richton Street in Montclair, California. It is located between Central and Monte Vista Avenues on Richton Street, just north of the Montclair Plaza shopping center. 5.4 km · bus, light rail and Metrolink diesel commuter rail station in the Los Angeles suburb of Montclair · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montclair_Transit_Center) 2. Baitul Hameed Mosque The Baitul Hameed Mosque is the largest Ahmadiyya Muslim mosque in the Western United States with an area of 19,000 square feet sitting on nearly 5 acres. Initially built in 1989 at a cost of $2.5 million, entirely from donations of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, it is located east of Los Angeles in Chino, California, just inside San Bernardino County. 5.9 km · mosque in United States · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baitul_Hameed_Mosque) 3. Frankish Building The Frankish Building is a historic building located at 200 South Euclid Avenue in Ontario, California. Charles Frankish and his son designed and supervised the construction of the building in 1915–16. 100 m · building in Ontario, United States of America · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankish_Building) 4. Ontario State Bank Block The Ontario State Bank Block was a historic commercial building located at 300 South Euclid Avenue in Ontario, California. The building, completed in 1887, was composed of three sections, and had a design which incorporated elements of the Eastlake and Queen Anne styles. 200 m · bank building in Ontario, California · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_State_Bank_Block) 5. American Heritage University of Southern California American Heritage University of Southern California is an unaccredited for-profit college based in Southern California. American Heritage University states that it was founded in 2003 and is incorporated in the State of California under the name Heritage University. 3.5 km · For-profit college based in Southern California · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Heritage_University_of_Southern_California) 6. Providence Christian College Providence Christian College was a private Christian liberal arts college in Pasadena, California, United States. Founded in 2002 by the California Dutch, the institution identified with the confessionally Reformed tradition but maintained no formal denominational affiliation. 3.7 km · private Christian liberal arts college in California · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_Christian_College) 7. Old Carnegie Library The Carnegie Library, historically known as the Upland Public Library, is a Carnegie library located at 123 East D Street in Upland, California. Built in 1913, the library was the first public building in Upland. 3.9 km · library building in Upland, California, United States · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Library_(Upland,_California%29) 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 Ontario **Airports:** Ontario (ONT), 5 km · San Bernardino (SBD), 38 km · John Wayne Orange County (SNA), 48 km\ **Stations:** Ontario International Airport, 4.7 km\ - Santa Ana → Ontario 41 km · quickest by road, 47 min · $4–6 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/santa-ana-to-ontario) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Santa+Ana&to=Ontario) - Long Beach → Ontario 60 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · $6–9 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/long-beach-to-ontario) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Long+Beach&to=Ontario) - Burbank → Ontario 62 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · $6–8 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/burbank-to-ontario) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Burbank&to=Ontario) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Ontario) 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 Ontario 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 Ontario. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in It is possible to cross by seasonal ferry to the Thousand Islands (Cape Vincent, New York to Wolfe Island, Ontario) with a bicycle; crossing on foot there makes little sense due to the rural distances involved. From [Wikivoyage: Ontario](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ontario), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Port Townsend and the Olympic Peninsula](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/port-townsend) US 9 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,619 km 2. [Salt Spring Island and the Southern Gulf Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/salt-spring-island) CA 10 ways of moving, 15 sources 1,710 km 3. [Nanaimo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/nanaimo) CA 11 ways of moving, 41 sources 1,757 km 4. [Gibsons and the Sunshine Coast](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gibsons) CA 10 ways of moving, 21 sources 1,772 km 5. [Courtenay, Comox and the Comox Valley](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/courtenay) CA 10 ways of moving, 14 sources 1,838 km If you know how people move in Ontario – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Contario&title=Ontario&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fontario), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Ontario Ontario is 26 km from [Riverside](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/riverside), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Guasti](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/guasti) unincorporated community in California 6 km - [Russian Village District](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/russian-village-district) historic district in California, United States 6 km [The place page for Ontario](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/ontario) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United States](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-US) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ontario, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt