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Toluca Lake, Los Angeles

Toluca Lake is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, located in the San Fernando Valley 12 miles (19 km) northwest of the city’s downtown.

Toluca Lake, Los Angeles
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The place

Toluca Lake is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, located in the San Fernando Valley 12 miles (19 km) northwest of the city’s downtown. The name is also given to a private natural lake fed by wells and maintained by neighboring property owners. Prior to the paving of the Los Angeles River in 1938 and L.A. well extraction in the late 19th and 20th century which lowered the water table, Toluca Lake was fed by artesian springs.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Toluca Lake, Los Angeles

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
    Forest Lawn Memorial Park

    Forest Lawn Memorial Park – Hollywood Hills is one of the six Forest Lawn cemeteries in Southern California, United States. It is located at 6300 Forest Lawn Drive in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles.

    2.9 km · cemetery in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Universal Studios Hollywood

    Universal Studios Hollywood is a film studio and theme park located in Universal City, California, United States, near Hollywood, Los Angeles. Owned by NBCUniversal and operated by Universal Destinations & Experiences, it is one of the oldest and most famous Hollywood film studios still in use.

    1.3 km · amusement park in Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mount Lee

    Mount Lee is a peak in the Santa Monica Mountains, located in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Hollywood Sign is located on its southern slope.

    3.1 km · Mountain in the Santa Monica Mountains of California, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery

    Mount Sinai Memorial Park comprises two Jewish cemeteries in the Los Angeles area: Mount Sinai Hollywood Hills, established in 1953, and Mount Sinai Simi Valley, opened in 1997. Both cemeteries are administered by Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries, a nonprofit owned and operated by the Sinai Temple.

    3.4 km · Jewish cemetery in Los Angeles, California · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Warner Bros. Water Tower

    The Warner Bros. Water Tower is a historic water tower located at the Warner Bros.

    1.2 km · Historic water tower on the Warner Bros. Studios lot in Burbank, California; also the home of the Warner Siblings from "Animaniacs" · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Cahuenga Peak

    Cahuenga Peak is the 12th-highest named peak in the Santa Monica Mountains and is located just west of the Hollywood Sign. Cahuenga Peak is the highest peak in Griffith Park.

    2.6 km · mountain in United States of America · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Campo de Cahuenga

    Campo de Cahuenga is an adobe reproduction and memorial park located at the site of the signing of the 1847 Capitulation of Cahuenga, a ceasefire agreement which ended the Conquest of California. Situated at the north end of Cahuenga Pass, in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, the current structure was built in 1950 and serves as a historic interpretation center dedicated to the Capitulation of Cahuenga, signed between Lieutenant Colonel John C. Frémont, representing the American forces, and Captain Andrés Pico, representing the Californio forces.

    1.3 km · historic house in California, United States · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Hollywood Reservoir

    Hollywood Reservoir is a reservoir located in the Hollywood Hills, situated in the Santa Monica Mountains and north of the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is maintained by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

    3.6 km · reservoir in California · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Mulholland Dam

    The Mulholland Dam is a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power dam located in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California, east of the Hollywood Freeway. Designed with a storage capacity of 7,900 acre⋅ft of water at a maximum depth of 183 feet, the dam forms the Hollywood Reservoir, which collects water from various aqueducts and impounds the creek of Weid Canyon.

    3.8 km · dam in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Shulman House

    The Shulman House is a mid-century steel home and studio in the Hollywood Hills. In 1947 architectural photographer Julius Shulman asked architect Raphael Soriano to build him a house and studio in the Hollywood Hills.

    3.1 km · House in Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Toluca Lake, Los Angeles

Airports
Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), 6 km · Los Angeles (LAX), 23 km · Long Beach (LGB), 41 km
Stations
Universal City/Studio City, 1.4 km
  • Long Beach → Toluca Lake, Los Angeles
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · $4.5–6
  • Santa Ana → Toluca Lake, Los Angeles
    3661 km · quickest by air, 13h 42m · $820–1,230
  • Ontario → Toluca Lake, Los Angeles
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · $6–8
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Toluca Lake, Los Angeles

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 Toluca Lake, Los Angeles. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundA landscaped walking trail follows the south bank of the Los Angeles River (just north of Ventura Boulevard), from Whitsett Avenue to Radford Avenue.

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

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Around it

Next door to Toluca Lake, Los Angeles

Toluca Lake, Los Angeles is 15 km from Los Angeles, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hollywood Hillsneighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States3.2 km
  • North Hollywooddistrict in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, state of California, United States3.7 km
  • NoHo Arts Districthuman settlement in California, United States of America3.7 km
  • Burbank Unified School Districtschool district serving Burbank, California3.2 km
  • Nichols Canyonhuman settlement in California, United States of America3.8 km
  • Cahuengahuman settlement in California, United States of America2.7 km