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Sawtelle

Sawtelle is a neighborhood in West Los Angeles, on the Westside of Los Angeles, California.

Sawtelle
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The place

Sawtelle is a neighborhood in West Los Angeles, on the Westside of Los Angeles, California. The short-lived City of Sawtelle grew around the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, later the Sawtelle Veterans Home, and was incorporated as a city in 1899. Developed by the Pacific Land Company and named for its manager, W. E. Sawtelle, the City of Sawtelle was independent for fewer than 30 years before it was annexed by the City of Los Angeles.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sawtelle

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
    Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

    Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary is a cemetery and mortuary located in the Westwood area of Los Angeles, California, United States. It includes a crematory for cremation services.

    3.7 km · cemetery in the Westwood Village area of Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hammer Museum

    The Hammer Museum is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. It is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles.

    3.7 km · museum in Los Angeles, California · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Santa Monica College

    Santa Monica College is a public community college in Santa Monica, California. Founded as a junior college in 1929, SMC enrolls over 30,000 students in more than 90 fields of study.

    1.7 km · public, community college in Santa Monica, California, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Los Angeles California Temple

    The Los Angeles California Temple, the tenth operating and the second-largest temple operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is on Santa Monica Boulevard in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California, United States. When it was dedicated in 1956, it was the largest of the church's temples, though it has since been surpassed by the Salt Lake Temple due to later expansions.

    3.7 km · temple of the LDS church · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery

    Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum & Mortuary, formerly Ballona Cemetery, is located at 1847 14th Street, alongside Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, California, United States. The cemetery was founded in 1897 and sits on 26 acres.

    1.8 km · cemetery in Santa Monica, California, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Santa Monica State Beach

    Santa Monica State Beach is a California State Park operated by the city of Santa Monica. The beach is located along Pacific Coast Highway.

    4 km · beach in Santa Monica, California, United States · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Regency Village Theatre

    The Fox Westwood Village Theatre is a historic theater in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. It is located across the street from the Fox Bruin Theater near the University of California, Los Angeles.

    3.9 km · movie theater in Westwood Village, Los Angeles · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Wadsworth Theatre

    The Wadsworth Theatre, a historic live theater, is located in the Sawtelle community of West Los Angeles, California, within the 388-acre West Los Angeles Department of Veterans Affairs complex. Situated on Eisenhower Avenue in Building 226, the theater is part of the historic Sawtelle Veterans Home, nestled between Wilshire Boulevard and San Vicente Boulevard on the east side of Brentwood.

    2.7 km · theatre in Los Angeles, California, USA · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Third Street Promenade

    The Third Street Promenade is a pedestrian mall esplanade, shopping, dining and entertainment complex in the downtown area of Santa Monica, California which originally opened as the Santa Monica Mall on November 8, 1965. It is considered a premier shopping and dining district on the Westside and draws crowds from all over the Greater Los Angeles area.

    3.4 km · pedestrian mall shopping complex in Santa Monica, California · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Heal the Bay Aquarium

    Heal the Bay Aquarium, previously named the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium, is a private-public aquarium at a California State Beach Park managed by Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors, located beneath the Santa Monica Pier, adjacent to the Pacific Ocean. Since 2003, it is operated by Heal the Bay, a nonprofit organization.

    3.8 km · aquarium in Santa Monica, 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.

Go there

Getting to Sawtelle

Airports
Los Angeles (LAX), 11 km · Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), 21 km · Long Beach (LGB), 37 km
Stations
Santa Monica Airport, 2 km · Westwood/UCLA station, 3.6 km · 17th Street/Santa Monica College, 1.7 km · Westwood/VA Hospital station, 2.8 km
  • Santa Ana → Sawtelle
    3662 km · quickest by air, 13h 8m · $790–1,190
  • Ontario → Sawtelle
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · $7–9
  • San Bernardino → Sawtelle
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · $9–13
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Sawtelle

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inVarious shared vans will also take visitors from the airport to local hotels, and taxis are prevalent at the airport and will cost $20-25.
  • Get aroundThis water taxi is just $1 (one-way) for each boarding and is a convenient way to leave the car and visit several other areas in the Marina.

From Wikivoyage: Marina del Rey, 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

    1,607 km
  2. 021,696 km
  3. 03
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,742 km
  4. 04
    Gibsons and the Sunshine CoastCA

    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    1,759 km
  5. 05
    Courtenay, Comox and the Comox ValleyCA

    10 ways of moving, 14 sources

    1,821 km

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

Around it

Next door to Sawtelle

Sawtelle is 20 km from Los Angeles, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Brentwoodaffluent neighborhood in the Westside of Los Angeles, California, United States2.6 km
  • West Los Angelesneighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States3.5 km
  • Mar Vistaneighborhood in West Los Angeles, California, United States3.8 km
  • Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School Districtschool district located in Santa Monica, California, United States1.7 km
  • Rancho Parkneighborhood in Los Angeles, California, United States of America1.9 km
  • University High Schoolsecondary school located in West Los Angeles, a district in Los Angeles, California, United States1.7 km