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Where to Stay in Calabasas, California
Calabasas, incorporated in 1991, is the newest city in Los Angeles County, California, in the southwestern San Fernando Valley.
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Where to stay in Calabasas
Where visitors usually base themselves, and why.
Calabasas strings its neighbourhoods along a few roads through the foothills. Old Town Calabasas holds the Leonis Adobe, and the Calabasas Farmers Market meets every Saturday on Calabasas Road. Technology firms line Agoura Road.
Its stretch beside US 101 became the 101 Technology Corridor, the address for a work trip. Las Virgenes Road leads to the King Gillette Ranch, part of Malibu Creek State Park, at its junction with Mulholland Highway, the road for a trip built around the hills. Park Moderne, the Bird Streets behind Calabasas High School, is one of the oldest neighbourhoods, a former artists' colony whose clubhouse, pool, and cabins survive in part.
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Old Town Calabasas
Old Town Calabasas holds the Leonis Adobe.Find hotels in Old Town Calabasasbusiness on Agoura Road along the 101 Technology Corridor101 Technology Corridor
Technology firms settled on the stretch of Agoura Road beside the US 101 freeway in Calabasas.Find hotels in 101 Technology Corridordays at the King Gillette Ranch and Malibu Creek State ParkLas Virgenes Road
The King Gillette Ranch stands at the junction of Mulholland Highway and Las Virgenes Road, inside Malibu Creek State Park.Find hotels in Las Virgenes RoadHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
About Calabasas
Calabasas takes its name from the Spanish for squashes.
What is Calabasas known for?
The name is an old Californio spelling of calabazas, the word for the winter squashes that grew wild in the area, and the botanist Jose Longinos Martinez recorded Las Calabazas as a place name in 1792.
What are the main landmarks in Calabasas?
The Leonis Adobe, dating from 1844, stands in Old Town Calabasas as one of the oldest buildings in greater Los Angeles. Just outside the city limits lies the King Gillette Ranch, with historic buildings by the architect Wallace Neff, and the Malibu Hindu Temple on Las Virgenes Road draws visitors from within California and beyond. Calabasas Park Golf Club covers the old Warner Bros.
Ranch, where High Noon and Calamity Jane were shot.
What is the history of Calabasas?
The Chumash and Tongva lived for thousands of years in the San Fernando Valley, where Calabasas lies, before the Spanish came. Gaspar de Portolá's expedition crossed the area in 1770, and in 1776 Juan Bautista de Anza camped in it with a party heading north from Mexico. By 1795 Calabasas was the name of a ranchería in the area.
Hollywood used the hills later: the Warner Bros. Ranch, where Calabasas Park Golf Club lies, was the set for High Noon, Calamity Jane, and Stalag 17 in the 1950s. Calabasas incorporated on April 5, 1991.
Annexations, Mont Calabasas among them in 2011, have since brought it to about 35 square kilometres.
Where is Calabasas?
Calabasas lies in the southwestern San Fernando Valley, between the foothills of the Santa Monica and Santa Susana mountains, 48.1 kilometres northwest of downtown Los Angeles by US 101. Hidden Hills borders it on the north. Woodland Hills, a neighbourhood of Los Angeles, lies to the northeast, Topanga to the east, Malibu to the south, and Agoura Hills to the west.
The city covers about 35 square kilometres.
What is the climate of Calabasas?
Summers in Calabasas are hot and dry, and winters are mild and relatively wet, the hot-summer Mediterranean pattern. Fire is a risk in Calabasas. The Woolsey Fire of 2018 damaged Grape Arbor Park, and the city rebuilt it by 2020.
How do you get to Calabasas?
The Ventura Freeway, US 101, runs east to west through Calabasas on the line of the commemorative El Camino Real. It is the road to downtown Los Angeles. Mulholland Highway and Las Virgenes Road lead into the hills.
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What is the best area to stay in Calabasas?
Old Town Calabasas: seeing the Leonis Adobe in Old Town Calabasas. 101 Technology Corridor: business on Agoura Road along the 101 Technology Corridor. Las Virgenes Road: days at the King Gillette Ranch and Malibu Creek State Park.
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Updated October 2026