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

Palmdale is a suburban city in northern Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city lies in the Antelope Valley of Southern California. The San Gabriel Mountains separate Palmdale from the Los Angeles Basin to the south.
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Worth seeing in and around Palmdale
2 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.
- 01Joe Davies Heritage Airpark
The Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at Palmdale Plant 42, formerly known as the Palmdale Plant 42 Heritage Airpark is an aviation museum and airpark located in Palmdale, California with various United States military aircraft on display. The park is located adjacent to the United States Air Force Plant 42 and the Blackbird Airpark Museum.
3.7 km · aviation museum in Palmdale, California, United States · Wikipedia - 02Lake Palmdale
Lake Palmdale is an artificial lake completed in 1924 along with the nearby Little Rock Reservoir created by Little Rock Dam. Its source of water is the California State Water Project and it is fed by the California Aqueduct.
3.1 km · lake of the United States of America · Wikipedia
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Getting to Palmdale
- Airports
- Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), 47 km · Ontario (ONT), 75 km · Los Angeles (LAX), 76 km
- Stations
- LA/Palmdale Regional Airport, 6.3 km · Palmdale Transportation Center, 1.3 km · Vincent Grade/Acton, 9.1 km
- Burbank → Palmdale48 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · $7–9
- Ontario → Palmdale72 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · $9–13
- Los Angeles → Palmdale60 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · $8–11
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Palmdale
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 Palmdale. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Palmdale – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Palmdale
Palmdale is 60 km from Los Angeles, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.