Westwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lassen County, California, United States.

Keddie Ridge is considered to be at the northern end of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range.

[3] The Red River Lumber Company is credited as being "the world's largest electrical sawmill of the times.

"[7] Red River Lumber Company also operated one of the first electric railways in the state built in 1927.

[11] William Laughead, an advertising copywriter who had once worked in lumber camps, took the stories of an old lumberjack and reworked them into the modern character.

[13] The Red River Lumber Company's electric mill at Westwood made wooden Venetian blinds, plywood, boxes, doors and windows which were shipped all over the U.S. and the world.

[14] The Westwood mill set a world record in 1942 by sawing 212 million board feet.

For a small monthly fee a home could have television service without having three separate antennae on the roof.

There were 1,005 housing units at an average density of 182.4 per square mile (70.4/km2), of which 440 (61.5%) were owner-occupied, and 275 (38.5%) were occupied by renters.

The San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad sold Shay locomotive Lima #2534 to the Red River Lumber Company.

[23] Federally, Westwood is in California's 1st congressional district, represented by Republican Doug LaMalfa.

[24] Westwood is the site of the Walker family mansion and statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox.

The "Bizz" Johnson Trail, ends 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Westwood, at Mason Station.

Congressman from California, the rail trail follows the 24.5 miles (39.4 km) Fernley and Lassen Railway right-of-way.