Rancho Park is a small neighborhood in western Los Angeles. It is bordered by Palms on the south, West Los Angeles on the west, Westwood on the northwest, Century City on the northeast, and Cheviot Hills and Beverlywood on the east. The district's boundaries, while somewhat ill-defined, are generally considered to be the San Diego Freeway on the west, Santa Monica Boulevard on the north, Manning Avenue (south of Pico Boulevard) and Beverly Glen Boulevard (north of Pico) on the east, and the Santa Monica Freeway on the south. Major thoroughfares include Pico, Westwood, Olympic, Sepulveda, Beverly Glen, and Santa Monica Boulevards and Overland and Manning Avenues.
Apart from the heavily traveled stretch of Pico Boulevard (including the Westside Pavilion shopping mall) in its central portions, Rancho Park has a notably quiet, suburban feel. Its housing stock consists largely of Mediterranean-style bungalows and ranch houses on streets with faux 19th-century streetlights and large deciduous trees. Since 2002, the ongoing reconstruction of Santa Monica Boulevard has considerably disrupted the neighborhood's quiet: as Overland Avenue provides a direct route between Santa Monica Boulevard and the Santa Monica Freeway, it has become a favorite thoroughfare for trucks traveling from industrial areas to the construction site.