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Palmdale

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

Palmdale
Palmdale · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Joe 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
  2. 02
    Lake 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

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 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 → Palmdale
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · $7–9
  • Ontario → Palmdale
    72 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · $9–13
  • Los Angeles → Palmdale
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · $8–11
  • From anywhere
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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 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.

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

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,554 km
  2. 021,644 km
  3. 03
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,691 km
  4. 04
    Gibsons and the Sunshine CoastCA

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    1,706 km
  5. 05
    Courtenay, Comox and the Comox ValleyCA

    10 ways of moving, 14 sources

    1,770 km

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

Around it

Next door to Palmdale

Palmdale is 60 km from Los Angeles, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.