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Sunset Junction

Sunset Junction is an informal name for a portion of the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles, California.

Sunset Junction
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The place

Sunset Junction is an informal name for a portion of the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles, California. It was home to the Sunset Junction Street Fair from 1980 through 2010. It is in the southwestern part of the district along Sunset Boulevard.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sunset Junction

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
    Griffith Observatory

    Griffith Observatory is an observatory in Los Angeles, California, on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park. It commands a view of the Los Angeles Basin including Downtown Los Angeles to the southeast, Hollywood to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest.

    3.4 km · observatory in Los Angeles, California, USA · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hollywood Forever Cemetery

    Hollywood Forever Cemetery is a full-service cemetery, funeral home, crematory, and cultural events center which regularly hosts community events such as live music and summer movie screenings. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles, California and is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood.

    3.6 km · cemetery in Los Angeles, California · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles

    The Archdiocese of Los Angeles is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in the southern part of California in the United States, The archdiocese contains the counties of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ventura. The cathedral is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, and its present archbishop is José Horacio Gómez Velasco.

    3.9 km · archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hollyhock House

    The Hollyhock House is a house museum at Barnsdall Art Park in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. The house, designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the heiress Aline Barnsdall, is named for the hollyhock-inspired motifs in its design.

    1.5 km · house in Los Angeles, California · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    MacArthur Park

    MacArthur Park is a park dating back to the late 19th century in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. In the early 1940s, it was renamed after General Douglas MacArthur, and later designated City of Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument #100.

    3.8 km · Park in Los Angeles, California · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Angelus Temple

    Angelus Temple is a Pentecostal megachurch in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded by Aimee Semple McPherson in 1923, it is considered the first U.S. megachurch.

    2.5 km · historic church in Los Angeles · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Wilshire Boulevard Temple

    The Wilshire Boulevard Temple, known from 1862 to 1933 as Congregation B'nai B'rith, is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue at 3663 Wilshire Boulevard, in the Wilshire Center neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1862, it is the oldest Jewish congregation in Los Angeles.

    3.9 km · building in Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Los Angeles City College

    Los Angeles City College is a public community college in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is part of the Los Angeles Community College District, and serves Hollywood and its surrounding neighborhoods.

    1.3 km · public community college in Los Angeles, California, USA · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Lovell House

    The Lovell House or Lovell Health House is an International style modernist residence designed and built by Richard Neutra between 1927 and 1929. The home, located at 4616 Dundee Drive in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, was built for the physician and naturopath Philip Lovell.

    2.9 km · historic house in California, United States · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    First Congregational Church of Los Angeles

    First Congregational Church of Los Angeles is located at 540 South Commonwealth Avenue, Los Angeles, California, United States. It is a member of the United Church of Christ.

    3.1 km · church in CA , United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to Sunset Junction

Airports
Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), 14 km · Los Angeles (LAX), 20 km · Long Beach (LGB), 33 km
Stations
Wilshire/Normandie, 3.9 km · Westlake/MacArthur Park, 4 km · Wilshire/Vermont, 3.5 km · Vermont/Beverly, 2.1 km · Vermont/Santa Monica, 1.1 km
  • Santa Ana → Sunset Junction
    3652 km · quickest by air, 13h 33m · $820–1,220
  • Ontario → Sunset Junction
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · $5–7
  • San Bernardino → Sunset Junction
    91 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · $8–11
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sunset Junction

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAir taxi and air charter companies including Los Angeles Private Jets can access private aircraft at any of L.A.'s private aviation airports, as well as planes in your area for flights to Los Angeles.
  • Get inIf you're thinking of using Metrolink to day trip on the weekend, you'll want to get the $10 weekend day pass, which is good for unlimited travel on Metrolink (and connecting transit) on either Saturday or Sunday.
  • Get inLong Beach also has party boats for large groups such as the Majorca and Ibizza by OnBoat, https://onboat.co/product/long-beach-yacht-charter-115-feet-party-yacht-majorca/ San Pedro has a cruise ship terminal that all of the major cruise ship lines (except Carnival) sail from.

From Wikivoyage: Los Angeles, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

Around it

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Sunset Junction is 6 km from Los Angeles, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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