Courthouse Square, Los Angeles

Name: Courthouse Square
Address: Los Angeles, United States

#110 among attractions in Los Angeles

Relax in park, Park

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Facts and practical information

Courthouse Square is a backlot located at the Universal Studios Lot in Universal City, California. The set is composed of several facades that form an archetypal American town square with a courthouse as its centerpiece. The set was built for the 1948 film An Act of Murder and was featured as downtown Hill Valley in the Back to the Future trilogy, as well as Kingston Falls in the Gremlins series. ()

Elevation: 551 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 34°8'29"N, 118°20'60"W

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South Valley (Universal City)Los Angeles United States

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Courthouse Square – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Universal Studios Hollywood, The Baked Potato, Universal CityWalk, Warner Bros. Museum.

~1750 ftSW
Big movie-themed amusement park
Universal Studios Hollywood, Los Angeles
9 min walk • Universal Studios Hollywood, nestled in the bustling city of Los Angeles, is a legendary amusement park that brings the magic of the movies to life. This iconic destination, known for immersing visitors in the worlds of their favorite films and TV shows, is a...
0.8 miSW
Nightlife, Dancing
The Baked Potato, Burbank
21 min walk • The Baked Potato is a prominent jazz club on Cahuenga Boulevard in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, opened by Don Randi in 1970. Randi formed his own group, Don Randi and Quest, as the house band. Over the years it has hosted many live recordings from jazz fusion artists. Larry Carlton recorded Last Nite there in 1986.
0.4 miSW
Shopping, Shopping centre
Universal CityWalk, Los Angeles
10 min walk • Universal CityWalk, nestled in the heart of Los Angeles, is a vibrant hub of entertainment, dining, and shopping that caters to both locals and tourists alike. This open-air complex serves as the gateway to the adjacent Universal Studios Hollywood and is known for its...
0.7 miNE
Museum, Cafeteria
Warner Bros. Museum, Burbank
18 min walk • Warner Bros. Museum, also known as the Warner Bros. Studio Tour Archive, is the only studio museum in the movie industry in Burbank, California and is dedicated to Warner Bros.
~1630 ftSW
Park, Theme park
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Los Angeles
8 min walk • The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is a themed area at Universal Studios Hollywood theme park near Los Angeles. The area is themed to the Harry Potter media franchise, adapting elements from the film series and novels by J.K. Rowling.
0.4 miN
Lake
Toluca Lake, Burbank
11 min walk • Toluca Lake is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, located in the San Fernando Valley 12 miles northwest of downtown. The name is also given to a private natural lake fed by wells and maintained by neighboring property owners.
0.7 miW
Museum, History museum, Spanish colonial revival architecture
Campo de Cahuenga, Los Angeles
18 min walk • The Campo de Cahuenga, near the historic Cahuenga Pass in present-day Studio City, California, was an adobe ranch house on the Rancho Cahuenga where the Treaty of Cahuenga was signed between Lieutenant Colonel John C.
1.4 miSW
Natural attraction, Nature, Hill
Chemosphere, Los Angeles
37 min walk • The Chemosphere is a modernist house in Los Angeles, California, designed by John Lautner in 1960. The building, which the Encyclopædia Britannica once called "the most modern home built in the world", is admired both for the ingenuity of its solution to the problem of the site and for its unique octagonal design.
1.1 miNE
Park
Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank
28 min walk • Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank, formerly known as Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Studios and The Burbank Studios, is a major filmmaking facility owned and run by Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. in Burbank, California. First National Pictures built the 62-acre studio lot in 1926 as it expanded from a film distributor to film production.
0.7 miW
Tower
10 Universal City Plaza, Burbank
18 min walk • 10 Universal City Plaza is a 35-story, 154.23 m rhombic skyscraper in Universal City, California near Los Angeles. The tower was completed in 1984 by Hathaway Dinwiddie, and was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and contains 820,000 sq ft of office space.
1.2 miW
Bridge
Hollywood Freeway chickens, Burbank
32 min walk • The Hollywood Freeway chickens are a colony of feral chickens that live under the Vineland Avenue off-ramp of the Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles, California. It is not definitively known how they came to be there, although news stories generally ascribe them to an overturned poultry truck.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Which popular attractions are close to Courthouse Square?

Nearby attractions include The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Los Angeles (8 min walk), Colonial Street, Los Angeles (9 min walk), Universal CityWalk, Los Angeles (10 min walk), Toluca Lake, Burbank (11 min walk).

How to get to Courthouse Square by public transport?

The nearest stations to Courthouse Square:

Metro

Universal City • Lines: B (18 min walk)

Bus

Universal City (21 min walk)