De Soto station

De Soto
Both platforms of De Soto Station with the eastbound platform in the foreground, October 2024
General information
Location	20851 & 20901 Victory Boulevard Los Angeles, California
Coordinates	34°11′19″N 118°35′18″W / 34.1886°N 118.5884°W / 34.1886; -118.5884
Owned by	Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Platforms	2 side platforms
Connections	Los Angeles Metro Bus City of Santa Clarita Transit VCTC Intercity
Construction
Bicycle facilities	Racks and lockers[1]
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	October 29, 2005 (2005-10-29)
Passengers
FY 2024	318 (avg. wkdy boardings)[2]
Services
Preceding station Metro Busway Following station Canoga toward Chatsworth G Line Pierce College toward North Hollywood
Location

De Soto station is a station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system.^[3] The station is next to Victory Boulevard, which parallels that section of the Orange Line. It is located in the western San Fernando Valley near the meeting of three largely residential municipal communities of the City of Los Angeles: Canoga Park, Winnetka, and Woodland Hills.

It is named after De Soto Avenue, which travels north-south and crosses the east-west busway route, and is, in turn, named after Hernando de Soto, the conquistador who led the first European expedition into the southeastern United States. De Soto did not explore California, despite the location of the station and avenue.

Counting from the western terminus in Chatsworth, it is the sixth station on the Orange Line.