Valley Glen
Valley Glen is a neighborhood in the southeastern section of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California.

Valley Glen is a neighborhood in the southeastern section of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California. Once part of Van Nuys and North Hollywood, it became a separate neighborhood in 1998. Valley Glen is home to Los Angeles Valley College and the Great Wall of Los Angeles, a half-mile-long California-history mural listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Worth seeing in and around Valley Glen
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.
- 01Universal 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.
5.1 km · amusement park in Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia - 02Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery and Mortuary is a cemetery and funeral home located at 10621 Victory Boulevard in North Hollywood, California, straddling the border between that Los Angeles neighborhood and Burbank. The cemetery's east entrance features the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, the final resting place for aviation pioneers — "barnstormers, daredevils and sundry architects of aviation".
4.3 km · cemetery in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California · Wikipedia - 03Warner Bros. Water Tower
The Warner Bros. Water Tower is a historic water tower located at the Warner Bros.
5.6 km · Historic water tower on the Warner Bros. Studios lot in Burbank, California; also the home of the Warner Siblings from "Animaniacs" · Wikipedia - 04Campo 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.
4.2 km · historic house in California, United States · Wikipedia - 05Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation
Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, also known as Valhalla Memorial Rotunda and The Rotunda, is a 72-foot-tall shrine to aviation located at the former entrance to Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood and Burbank, California. The shrine, which has been called Arlington of the Air and Westminster Abbey of Reverence for the Founders of the Air Age, was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
4.3 km · memorial to pioneers of aviation · Wikipedia - 06Bailey House
The Bailey House is a steel-framed modernist house in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California, United States.
5.4 km · house · Wikipedia - 07Los Angeles Valley College
Los Angeles Valley College is a public community college in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is part of the Los Angeles Community College District, and serves Valley Glen and its surrounding neighborhoods in the San Fernando Valley.
2.6 km · community college in Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia - 08Shulman 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.
5.3 km · House in Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia - 09St. Charles Borromeo Church
St. Charles Borromeo Church is a Catholic church and elementary school in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
3.3 km · Catholic church in North Hollywood, California, United States · Wikipedia - 10Westfield Fashion Square
Westfield Fashion Square is a shopping mall in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles, California. It is owned by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield.
3.9 km · Shopping mall in Los Angeles, California, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Valley Glen
- Airports
- Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), 6 km · Los Angeles (LAX), 25 km · Long Beach (LGB), 45 km
- Stations
- Hollywood Burbank Airport, 5.3 km · Universal City/Studio City, 4.2 km · Burbank Airport–South station, 5.1 km · Burbank Airport-HSR station, 5.8 km
- Long Beach → Valley Glen51 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · $5–7
- Santa Ana → Valley Glen3667 km · quickest by air, 14h 43m · $780–1,170
- Ontario → Valley Glen72 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · $7–9
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Valley Glen
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 Valley Glen. 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 Valley Glen
Valley Glen is 19 km from Los Angeles, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Van Nuysneighborhood in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California, United States4 km
- Sherman Oaksneighborhood in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California, United States5 km
- North Hollywooddistrict in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, state of California, United States1.9 km
- Studio Cityneighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States2.4 km
- Laurel Canyonneighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States5.6 km
- Toluca Lakeneighborhood in Los Angeles and Burbank, California, United States4.6 km