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 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.
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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.
- 01Forest 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 - 02Universal 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 - 03Mount 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 - 04Mount 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 - 05Warner 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 - 06Cahuenga 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 - 07Campo 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 - 08Hollywood 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 - 09Mulholland 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 - 10Shulman 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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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 Angeles46 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · $4.5–6
- Santa Ana → Toluca Lake, Los Angeles3661 km · quickest by air, 13h 42m · $820–1,230
- Ontario → Toluca Lake, Los Angeles66 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · $6–8
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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.
- 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.
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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