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West Hills, Long Beach — Area Guide & Where to Stay
West Hills closes the western San Fernando Valley against the mountain ranges beyond it, a Los Angeles neighborhood whose name dates from 1987.
About West Hills
Where to stay in West Hills
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Orcutt Ranch Horticulture Center is the fixed point for a stay in West Hills. Rooms sit in a residential neighborhood at the western end of the San Fernando Valley, so the real decision is which neighbouring quarter a night here puts within reach: Chatsworth to the north, Canoga Park to the east or Woodland Hills to the south. The ranch grounds settle it for most.
Anyone after the mountain ranges rather than the valley floor books toward the western edge, where the built streets of Los Angeles give out against rising ground.
About West Hills
What are the main landmarks in West Hills?
One site is catalogued in West Hills. Orcutt Ranch Horticulture Center holds the whole of the neighborhood's register, a horticultural ground on the valley side of the mountain ranges that close West Hills off to the west. The ranch stands alone.
Visitors after more will cross into Chatsworth, Canoga Park or Woodland Hills, since the record for this corner of the San Fernando Valley stops at a single ranch.
What is the history of West Hills?
The name West Hills dates from 1987. Before that year the record treats the ground as part of the western San Fernando Valley without a name of its own, and the Orcutt Ranch Horticulture Center is the only older fabric the register carries here. The name came late.
Chatsworth, Canoga Park and Woodland Hills all border it as Los Angeles neighborhoods, and beyond those boundaries and the year 1987 the record in California keeps nothing further about how West Hills came to be.
Where is West Hills?
West Hills fills the western San Fernando Valley, hemmed by mountain ranges and bordered by Chatsworth, Canoga Park and Woodland Hills.
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Updated September 2026