Holmlia also boasts an extensive hiking trail network, which makes it possible to walk to most of the surrounding neighborhoods without ever crossing a single street.

The 25 m (82 ft) long pool is run by the city and offers saunas, a slide, and special bathing hours for children and women.

[5] Rudin was a large area that extended over the entire plateau of modern-day Ekeberg and Nordstrand to the north, Bogerud, Skullerud, and Klemetsrud to the east, and Oppegård to the south with Oslofjord as its western border.

The Germans' assumption about the suburb being a vital location proved correct, as British bombers did fly low over Holmlia on their way up the fjord during the Oslo Mosquito raid in 1942.

In 1944, the German Organisation Todt built a small labor camp on Ljanskollen hill in west Holmlia.

The plan was to have the gas/oil brought from the docks and then pumped into a nearby processing plant, where the finished product would be loaded directly onto trains.

Suburban development began in the late 1970s, and today the area is characterized by a mix of terraced houses and high-rise apartment buildings.

On 26 January 2001, the racially motivated murder of Benjamin Hermansen in Holmlia sparked protest marches across Norway.