--- title: "West Hills – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "West Hills, United States: West Hills is a neighborhood in the western San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California. Nearby: Bell…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-hills" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-hills.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Centro_de_Wabash%2C_Indiana%2C_Estados_Unidos%2C_2012-11-12%2C_DD_01.jpg/1920px-Centro_de_Wabash%2C_Indiana%2C_Estados_Unidos%2C_2012-11-12%2C_DD_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, United States # West Hills West Hills is a neighborhood in the western San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California. ![West Hills](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Centro_de_Wabash%2C_Indiana%2C_Estados_Unidos%2C_2012-11-12%2C_DD_01.jpg/1920px-Centro_de_Wabash%2C_Indiana%2C_Estados_Unidos%2C_2012-11-12%2C_DD_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) West Hills · Diego Delso The place West Hills is a neighborhood in the western San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California. It is bordered by mountain ranges to the west and the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Chatsworth to the north, Canoga Park to the east, and Woodland Hills to the south. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Hills%2C_Los_Angeles), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around West Hills 3 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. Bell Canyon Park Bell Canyon Park is a large open-space regional park located in the Simi Hills at the western end of the San Fernando Valley in West Hills, Los Angeles and Bell Canyon, California. Bell Creek, a primary tributary to the Los Angeles River, flows through the park with riparian zone vegetation along its natural banks. 2.3 km · park in the American state of California · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Canyon_Park) 2. Westfield Topanga Westfield Topanga is a shopping mall in the Canoga Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It has 1,588,050 square feet of gross leasable area and is anchored by Nordstrom, Macy's, Target, and AMC Theatres. 3.7 km · shopping mall in Canoga Park, California · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfield_Topanga) 3. Orcutt Ranch Horticulture Center The Orcutt Ranch Horticulture Center, formally known as Rancho Sombra del Roble, is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument located in the West Hills section of Los Angeles, California, USA. 1.4 km · historic site in California, USA · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orcutt_Ranch_Horticulture_Center) 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 West Hills **Airports:** Hollywood Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), 26 km · Los Angeles (LAX), 36 km · Long Beach (LGB), 63 km\ - Long Beach → West Hills 64 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · $6–9 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/long-beach-to-west-hills) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Long+Beach&to=West+Hills) - Santa Ana → West Hills 87 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · $8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/santa-ana-to-west-hills) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Santa+Ana&to=West+Hills) - Ontario → West Hills 93 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · $9–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ontario-to-west-hills) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ontario&to=West+Hills) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=West%20Hills) 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 West Hills 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 West Hills. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in There are several small airports in the area that welcome private or charter flights. From [Wikivoyage: Simi Valley](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Simi_Valley), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Port Townsend and the Olympic Peninsula](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/port-townsend) US 9 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,584 km 2. [Salt Spring Island and the Southern Gulf Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/salt-spring-island) CA 10 ways of moving, 15 sources 1,673 km 3. [Nanaimo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/nanaimo) CA 11 ways of moving, 41 sources 1,720 km 4. [Gibsons and the Sunshine Coast](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gibsons) CA 10 ways of moving, 21 sources 1,736 km 5. [Courtenay, Comox and the Comox Valley](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/courtenay) CA 10 ways of moving, 14 sources 1,797 km If you know how people move in West Hills – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cwest-hills&title=West+Hills&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fwest-hills), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to West Hills West Hills is 40 km from [Los Angeles](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/los-angeles), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Canoga Park](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/canoga-park) neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States 3.9 km [The place page for West Hills](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/west-hills) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United States](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-US) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/west-hills, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt