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Los Angeles 411 – Lake Balboa, Van Nuys , California

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Metro Life Homes RS-78439 / BRE #01708344

 

 

 

Just north of Los Angeles, California, in the City of Van Nuys, you will find the 3.13 square mile neighborhood of Balboa Park/Lake Balboa.  Lake Balboa is an oasis in the middle of an otherwise dry San Fernando Valley, nestled in a place where you would least expect a lake to be.

Lake Balboa is 27 acres and it is filled with water from the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant, which was designed to treat 40 million gallons of wastewater per day and serves the city with critical hydraulic relief to the major sewers downstream.

When you visit Balboa Park/Lake Balboa, you will find a myriad of things to do to fill up a beautiful afternoon.  Enjoy a delicious barbecue on one of the many barbecue pits in the picnic table pavilions area. 

Before or after your barbecue, you can get some exercise riding your bicycle on a bicycle path that circles the lake, or jog along the same path as you pass beautiful cascading waters surrounded by flowering bushes and majestic trees. 

You will also find a children's play area, a fly fishing area, and a lake for fishing in which swimming is prohibited.For the boating aficionados, you can rent a pedal boat, or do some private boating around the lake (only boats without motors are accepted, unless the boats are for electric trolling), and a remote control boating cove.

Whatever you decide to do at Balboa Park/Lake Balboa, you are sure to have a great deal of family fun for minimal cost.  Balboa Park/Lake Balboa is located at 6300 Balboa Blvd., Van Nuys, CA 91316.  Hours of operation are Sunrise to Sunset.  Lifeguard Hours: 9:00 am to Dusk, with fishing available during park hours.

 

Ralph Gorgoglione


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Comments (6)

Debb Janes
Nature As Neighbors - Camas, WA
Put My Love of Nature At Work for You

Hi there Ralph, thanks for the information about Lake Balboa. Hope you got some much needed moisture recently from the big storm. 

Feb 12, 2014 09:07 AM
Shanna Hall
Real Estate Solutions - Kirkwood, MO
I love selling houses!!!St. Louis, MO 314-703-1311

Ralph- lot of great things to do in Lake Balboa!  Good reason to move here- especially if you like the outdoors!

Feb 13, 2014 12:13 PM
Joy Daniels
Joy Daniels Real Estate Group, Ltd. - Harrisburg, PA

Your description of an oasis is a very good one!  It definitely looks like a beautiful place to call home. 

Feb 15, 2014 06:29 AM
Joan Cox
House to Home, Inc. - Denver Real Estate - 720-231-6373 - Denver, CO
Denver Real Estate - Selling One Home at a Time

Ralph, great information for the public to get better informed on Lake Balboa.   Buyers should know to give you a call when needing more information on this community.

Feb 15, 2014 11:28 AM
Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena And Southern California 818.516.4393

Hi Ralph - you're definitely spot on when you use the word "oasis" to describe Lake Balboa -- a true find in the San Fernando Valley.   Good information for residents and Valley visitors alike.  

Feb 15, 2014 05:22 PM
Yolanda Cordova-Gilbert
Richmond, TX

Ralph,

 I wish we had something similar to Balboa Park here to visit it sounds like quite te repsite.!

Feb 19, 2014 05:57 AM