[citation needed] Pacific Palisades is a largely residential community and did not attract many tourists other than day visitors to Gladstones Malibu, the local beaches, the Getty Villa or the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine.

Archeological evidence shows Native American Indians living in the Santa Monica Mountains and the surrounding area including Pacific Palisades for over 10,000 years.

Reyes left his portion of Rancho Boca de Santa Monica to his widow, Maria Antonia Villa, who sold it to developer and railroad magnate Robert Symington Baker in 1875.

By the following year, Ince had earned enough money to purchase the ranch and was able to lease an additional 18,000 acres (73 km2) lot in what is now in the Palisades Highlands neighborhood, stretching 7.5 miles (12.1 km) up Santa Ynez Canyon.

[19] This was the first studio in the area which featured silent stages, production offices, printing labs, a commissary large enough to serve lunch to hundreds of workers, dressing rooms, props houses, elaborate sets, all in one central location.

According to Katherine La Hue in her book, Pacific Palisades: Where the Mountains Meet the Sea: Ince invested $35,000 in building, stages and sets ... a bit of Switzerland, a Puritan settlement, a Japanese village ... beyond the breakers, an ancient brigantine weighed anchor, cutlassed men swarming over the sides of the ship, while on the shore performing cowboys galloped about, twirling their lassos in pursuit of errant cattle ...

La Hue writes that the place was virtually a ghost town when the last remnants of Inceville were burned on July 4, 1922, leaving only a "weatherworn old church, which stood sentinel over the charred ruins."

The paving of Sunset Boulevard in 1925 brought an increased flow of traffic through the community and offered more convenient access to nearby Westwood and Beverly Hills.

[26] In 1928, the Los Angeles Police Department began renting temporary office space in the now-historic Business Block building for the price of $10 a month.

The Palisades finally acquired its own fire station in 1929, located on Sunset, adjacent to where the local Chase Bank branch now stands in the Village neighborhood.

[26] During the 1930s and 40s, the Palisades attracted German, German-Jewish and Austrian-Jewish intellectuals and artists fleeing from Hitler’s Holocaust, including associated with the Exilliteratur literary movement, such as Thomas Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Theodor W. Adorno, Vicki Baum, Herbert Zipper, and Emil Ludwig.

[28][29] Villa Aurora on Paseo Miramar, the Spanish colonial home of Feuchtwanger and his wife, Marta, became the focal point of the expatriate community, which was nicknamed "Weimar by the Sea".

[48] Pacific Palisades averages 14.93 in (379 mm) of precipitation annually, mainly occurring between November and March,[45] generally in the form of moderate rain showers, but sometimes as heavy rainfall during winter storms.

Rainfall is usually higher in the neighborhoods located in the hills and coastal slopes of the Santa Monica Mountains, such as the Highlands and Castellammare; due to orographic uplift.

The Village is Pacific Palisades' small central business district with its center at Sunset Boulevard and Via de la Paz, known for an abundance of Italian restaurants.

[56] The El Medio Mesa is located south of Sunset Boulevard beginning about a quarter mile west of The Village, across Temescal Canyon – just past Palisades Charter High School.

Marquez Knolls is a large area of homes located north of Sunset Boulevard beginning about a quarter mile west of The Village across Temescal Canyon on the mountain upslope known for spectacular ocean views.

[citation needed] Castellammare is located along Pacific Coast Highway on small bluffs much closer to sea-level, north of where Sunset Boulevard meets PCH.

[60] Demographic data from the 2023 US Census American Community Survey indicated a population that was 81% Non-Hispanic White, 6% Asian, 1% Black, 8% multiracial; 4% of residents were Hispanic or Latino, of any race.

[73] Bushwacker's Delight is a 0.8 mile lightly trafficked point-to-point trail with 528 ft in elevation gain, located within Will Rogers State Historic Park.

The trail is one of the main attractions of Will Rogers State Park, as it is an easy hike with unique vistas of the Los Angeles Basin and Santa Monica Bay.

[78] Los Leones is one of the most-popular trails in the Westside, and weaves through a lush canyon with abundant green vegetation located in the southern end of Topanga State Park, just a 1/3 mile away from the Pacific.

After 1.3 miles and 550 feet of elevation gain, the trail arrives at a clearing on a ridge with a bench that looks down on the Palisades, Santa Monica city and bay, and the surrounding area.

It is hosted by Palisades Chabad Rabbi Zushe Cunin, as well as the honorary mayor, the city councilman representing the area, and local developer Rick Caruso.

Every Fourth of July, the community's Chamber of Commerce sponsors day-long events which include 5K and 10K runs, a home decorating contest, a parade down Sunset Boulevard, and a concert accompanied by a fireworks display at Palisades High School football field.

The Riviera was designed by golf course architects George C. Thomas, Jr. and William P. Bell,[citation needed] it has been the primary host for the Genesis Invitational (originally the Los Angeles Open), an annual event on the PGA Tour in February.

The house is composed of an interlocking set of shed roofs and tower, its forms reminiscent of The Sea Ranch Condominium, but adapted for a sense of the Mediterranean climate and Hollywood allusions.

Designer Tina Beebe developed with Moore the color scheme, whereby exterior planes were painted in a range of ochres, pinks, roses, and golds, so as the light and shade shifts during the day, the house itself seems to change like a chameleon.

The Business Block building is located between Antioch, Swarthmore and Sunset in the Village neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, an area in the Westside of Los Angeles, California.

The station was operated by the Board of Forestry until 1893 and by the University of California until 1923.Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine[30] is a 10-acre (4-hectare) spiritual center on Sunset Boulevard founded in 1950 by Paramahansa Yogananda, whose classic book Autobiography of a Yogi introduced many Westerners to yoga and Eastern mysticism.