Bell Canyon is an unincorporated community in eastern Ventura County, California, United States.

[3] For statistical purposes, the Census Bureau has defined Bell Canyon as a census-designated place (CDP).

According to a 2016 study, Bell Canyon is the seventh wealthiest community in the state of California with an annual median income of $230,000.

Chumash-Ventureño Chief Odón Eusebia (1795–), his brother-in-law Urbano, and Urbano's son Mañuel were the grantees of the Rancho grant, formerly Mission San Fernando Rey de España (Mission San Fernando) lands.

[14][15] In 1871, Miguel Leonis acquired Odón Eusebia's holdings of Rancho El Escorpión, along with an adobe on the adjacent southern ranch lands in Calabasas.

In the fall of 1968, the Bell Canyon Equestrian Center, designed by 'Southern California modern ranch style' architect Cliff May, was built and began operation.

[citation needed] In 1969 a new subdivision called "Woodland Hills Country Estates" was developed and opened for sales.

In the fall of 1969 the new residential property owners took leadership of the community association and renamed the development "Bell Canyon," after Charles A.

He was a leading late 1880s newspaper publisher, Los Angeles attorney winning many cases for clients against neighbor Miguel Leonis, and the 1906 Justice of the Peace for Calabasas.

There are many hiking and riding trails around the community, some of which border the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve Park connecting to the south and west.