Westwood Map
Westwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lassen County, California, United States. Westwood is located 20 miles (32 km) west-southwest of Susanville, at an elevation of 5128 feet (1563 m). The population was 1,647 at the 2010 census, down from 1,998 at the 2000 census.
The BNSF Railway (BNSF) has a Maintenance of Way station and a siding that is used to store BNSF snow fighting equipment.
Westwood is located at 40°18?22?N 121°00?21?W / 40.30611°N 121.00583°W / 40.30611; -121.00583. The town is built upon lavaflows from Cascade Mountain Range volcanos to the north. These lavaflows ran up against much older mountains just south of Westwood - Keddie Ridge. Keddie Ridge is considered to be at the northern end of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range - so Westwood falls pretty much right on the boundary of these two massive ranges - which taken together run from Mexico to Canada.
Nearby cities include Strawberry, Sonora, Columbia, Groveland, Avery.