Best-Value Neighborhoods in El Monte, CA

Mountain View in El Monte is the part of town that shares its streets with an airport. The San Gabriel Valley Airport runs along Santa Anita Avenue here, and Annia's Kitchen, the restaurant on the airfield, serves breakfast and lunch with a view of the runway and the small planes coming and going. ... See Full Page

Northwest El Monte takes in Arden Village, a pocket of small 1950s houses near the Rio Hondo, along with the western run of Valley Boulevard, where Chinese, Vietnamese and Mexican kitchens share the same strip malls. It is the corner of El Monte where a quiet residential grid and a busy restaurant corridor sit side by side. ... See Full Page

Park El Monte sits south of the 10 Freeway in El Monte, a residential district of wide, curving streets and lower-scale single-family homes, with the Flair Park office district and El Monte station along its northern edge. Garvey Avenue runs through it as a long, busy food corridor. ... See Full Page

Downtown El Monte keeps the city's history and its daily errands inside the same few blocks. The El Monte Historical Museum and the city library share Tyler Avenue, the pedestrian stretch of Main Street and Valley Mall runs a short walk away, and the town still leans on its old claim as the place where the Santa Fe Trail ended. ... See Full Page

River East spans El Monte's northeast side, from the family restaurants and markets along Peck Road down to Ramona Boulevard, the route the old Red Car once followed. Burritos La Palma, near the north end of Peck Road, is the name most food writers mention first. ... See Full Page

Norwood Cherrylee covers a busy stretch of east El Monte where Valley Boulevard, Durfee Avenue and Mountain View Road form a working grid of panaderias, seafood spots and corner markets, with the San Gabriel River a short way east. Mountain View Park anchors the middle of it. ... See Full Page