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Riverside

Riverside is a city in and the county seat of Riverside County, California, United States.

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The place

Riverside is a city in and the county seat of Riverside County, California, United States. It is named for its location beside the Santa Ana River in Southern California. It is the most populous city in the Inland Empire and Riverside County, 12th-most populous city in California, and 62nd-most populous city in the U.S. with a population of 314,998 at the 2020 census. The Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan area at 4.74 million residents is the 12th-largest metropolitan area in the nation. Riverside is about 50 miles (80 km) east of downtown Los Angeles and is also part of the Greater Los Angeles area.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Riverside

10 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
    University of California, Riverside

    The University of California, Riverside is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system.

    6.7 km · public research university in Riverside, California, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    California Baptist University

    California Baptist University is a private university in Riverside, California, United States. Founded in 1950 as California Baptist College, it is affiliated with the California Southern Baptist Convention, an organization affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.

    3.3 km · University in Riverside, California, United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mount Rubidoux

    Mount Rubidoux is a mountain just west of downtown in the city of Riverside, California, United States, that has been designated a city park and landmark. The mountain was once a popular Southern California tourist destination and is still the site of the oldest outdoor non-denominational Easter Sunrise service in the United States.

    4 km · mountain in United States of America · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Victoria Hill

    Victoria Hill is a hill in the city of Riverside, California which is the seat of Riverside County, California. It has an elevation of 1,005 feet and is located half a mile east of California State Route 91, at around postmile 19, which is south of intersection with California State Route 60.

    2.7 km · mountain in United States of America · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    California Citrus State Historic Park

    California Citrus State Historic Park is an open-air museum in the city of Riverside, California, United States. As part of the state park system of California, it interprets the historic cultural landscape of the citrus industry.

    6.1 km · historic site in California, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Pedley Hills

    The Pedley Hills are a low mountain range of the northern Peninsular Ranges System, in northwestern Riverside County, California. They are named for William Pedley, a civil engineer, who emigrated to the United States from England.

    7.3 km · mountain range in California, US · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Islamic Center of Riverside

    The Islamic Center of Riverside is a mosque in Riverside, California. Built in 1979, Friday services regularly attract over 1,000 worshipers.

    6.6 km · mosque in the United States · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Riverside Fox Theater

    The Riverside Fox Theater, also known as the Fox Performing Arts Center, is a Spanish Colonial Revival style building constructed in 1929 in the heart of downtown Riverside, California. The theater is the centerpiece of Riverside's Arts & Culture initiative and underwent a major renovation and restoration to become a regional performing arts facility.

    4.4 km · theater and movie theater in Riverside, California, United States · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Harada House

    The Harada House is a historic house in Riverside, California. The house was the focus of a critical application of the California Alien Land Law of 1913, which prevented foreigners who were ineligible for citizenship from owning property.

    4.8 km · historic house in California, United States · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Universalist Unitarian Church of Riverside

    The Universalist Unitarian Church of Riverside, previously known as the All Souls Universalist Church, is a Universalist Unitarian church located in Riverside, California, United States. It was built during 1891–92.

    4.4 km · church building in Riverside, California, USA · 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 Riverside

Airports
San Bernardino (SBD), 22 km · Ontario (ONT), 22 km · John Wayne Orange County (SNA), 53 km
Stations
Riverside Municipal Airport, 4.5 km · Riverside–Downtown, 3.9 km · Flabob Airport, 4.7 km · Riverside–La Sierra station, 8.7 km · Jurupa Valley/Pedley station, 8.1 km
  • Santa Ana → Riverside
    3574 km · quickest by air, 13h 30m · $800–1,210
  • Long Beach → Riverside
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · $7–10
  • Palm Springs → Riverside
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · $7–10
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Riverside

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 Riverside. 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

    1,637 km
  2. 021,728 km
  3. 03
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,776 km
  4. 04
    Gibsons and the Sunshine CoastCA

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    1,790 km
  5. 05
    Courtenay, Comox and the Comox ValleyCA

    10 ways of moving, 14 sources

    1,857 km

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

Around it

Next door to Riverside

Riverside is 49 km from Santa Ana, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Belltownunincorporated community in California7.2 km
  • Box Springsunincorporated community in California9.2 km
  • Jensen Alvarado Ranchhuman settlement in Jurupa Valley, California, United States of America5.3 km
  • Pachappa CampFirst Korean settlement in the United States3.5 km
  • Arlington Stationhuman settlement in Riverside, California, United States of America5.6 km