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Downtown Pescadero (Neighborhood)
Pescadero CA
~3.28 miles from Pescadero city center
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Big Basin Redwoods State Park
Boulder Creek CA - 8313388860
~8.22 miles from Pescadero city center
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Castle Rock Park
Silicon Valley CA
~14.28 miles from Pescadero city center
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Castle Rock State Park, located along the crest of the Santa Cruz Mountains, embraces 3,600 acres (15 km²) of coast redwood, Douglas fir, and madrone forest, most of which has been left in its wild, natural state. Steep canyons are sprinkled with unusual rock formations that is a popular rock climbing area. The forest here is lush and mossy, crisscrossed by 32 miles (51 km) of hiking trails. These trails are part of an even more extensive trail system that links the Santa Clara and San Lorenzo valleys with Castle Rock State Park, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, and the Pacific Coast. Castle Rock is the starting point of the Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail, a 30 mile (48 km) trail that leads to Waddell State Beach, north of Santa Cruz, CA. There are two walk-in campgrounds within the park for overn...
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Arastredero Preserve
Silicon Valley CA
~15.56 miles from Pescadero city center
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Hakone Gardens
Silicon Valley CA
~18.04 miles from Pescadero city center
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Hakone Gardens is a traditional Japanese garden in Saratoga, California, USA. It claims to be the oldest Japanese-style residential garden in the Western Hemisphere. Notable features include a bamboo garden, a Zen garden, a strolling garden (the Hill and Pond Garden), tea houses, and the Cultural Exchange Center, a replica of a 19th century Japanese home and storefront.Contents [hide]1 History1.1 Film History2 References3 See also4 External links[edit]HistoryRed-eared slider turtle and Koi at HakoneBuilding at HakoneIn 1916, two San Francisco arts patrons, Oliver and Isabel Stine, intending to build a summer retreat, purchased the 18 acres (73,000 m2) site on which Hakone now stands. Inspired by her trips to Japan, Isabel Stine modeled the gardens upon (and na...
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Downtown Half Moon Bay (Neighborhood)
Half Moon Bay CA
~18.12 miles from Pescadero city center
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Stanford University
Silicon Valley CA
~18.16 miles from Pescadero city center
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The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States. The university was founded in 1891 by Leland Stanford. Its alumni have founded the companies Hewlett-Packard, Electronic Arts, Sun Microsystems, Nvidia, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, Silicon Graphics, and Google.Stanford enrolls approximately 6,800 undergraduate and 8,300 graduate students from the United States and around the world. The university is divided into a number of schools, including the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Law School, Stanford School of Medicine, and Stanford School of Engineering.Stanford is ranked second among world universities by the Academic Ranking of World Universities, and...
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Los Altos History Museum
Silicon Valley CA
~18.32 miles from Pescadero city center
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Located in one of the few remaining apricot orchards of Santa Clara Valley, the Los Altos History Museum explores the rich history of local people and how the use of the land over time has transformed the agricultural paradise once known as the "Valley of Heart’s Delight" into the high technology hub of today’s Silicon Valley. Opened in spring of 2001, the Los Altos History Museum resides in an impressive three-level, 8,200-square-foot building – built entirely with private donations; building ownership was transferred to the City of Los Altos in 2002. The Museum features a changing exhibits gallery as well as the permanent exhibit, "Crown of the Peninsula," that describes the rich history of Los Altos. There’s more history just across the lushly landscaped courtyard in the landmark J....
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Los Altos
Los Altos CA
~18.34 miles from Pescadero city center
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Los Altos (pronounced /l??'sælto?s/ ( listen)) is a city at the southern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The city is in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The population was 27,693 according to the 2000 census. It is one of the wealthiest places in the United States.Most of the city's growth occurred between 1950 and 1980. Originally an agricultural town with many summer cottages, Los Altos is now an affluent bedroom community. Los Altos has several distinctive features. Commercial zones are strictly limited to the downtown area and small shopping and office parks lining Foothill Expressway and El Camino Real. Los Altos' low crime rate, excellent schools and proximity to coastal foothills make it one of the area's premier cities.
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Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park
Felton CA
~18.43 miles from Pescadero city center
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Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park is a California State Park located in Santa Cruz County, primarily in the area in-between the cities of Santa Cruz, Felton, and Scotts Valley, and the University of California at Santa Cruz, and it includes an extension in the Fall Creek area.
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Villa Montalvo
Silicon Valley CA
~18.64 miles from Pescadero city center
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Villa Montalvo is an Italian Mediterranean style mansion nestled in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, in Saratoga, California, United States. It was constructed from 1912 to 1914 by California statesman and businessman James Duval Phelan. After Phelan's death, it was donated to the state as a park and then a cultural and arts center, as it exists today. It is a historic landmark and in 1978 was awarded inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.
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Roaring Camp Railroads
P.O. Box G-1 Felton CA - (831) 335-4484
~18.66 miles from Pescadero city center
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See California's towering redwood forests from two historic railroads on your next visit to the San Francisco or Monterey Bay Areas.Ride steam trains through beautiful redwood forests or excursion trains down a scenic river canyon to the Pacific Ocean with this tour rail company.
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Cantor Arts Center
Silicon Valley CA
~18.96 miles from Pescadero city center
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The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, formerly the Stanford University Museum of Art, is an art museum on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California. It displays art in 24 galleries plus sculpture gardens, terraces, and a courtyard -- all with free admission.The museum was established, along with the university, in 1891 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford and his wife Jane. As with the university, the museum was created in memory of the couple's late son, Leland Stanford, Jr., and the museum was known initially as the Leland Stanford Junior Museum. The museum opened to the public in 1894 as one of the largest museums in the United States.Less than a year after Mrs. Stanford's death, more than two-thirds of the building and collections...
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Stanford Mausoleum
Silicon Valley CA
~19.17 miles from Pescadero city center
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The Stanford Mausoleum, located in the northwest of the Stanford University campus in the Stanford University Arboretum, holds the remains of the university's namesake Leland Stanford, Jr. and his parents Leland and Jane Stanford.The original intent of the Stanfords was to build a family mansion here. They had only got as far as planting a cactus garden (still present) before the death of their only son. They changed their plans to the building of a university instead. Nearby is a memorial (the Angel of Grief) to Jane Stanford's brother, Henry Clay Lathrop. This memorial is a 1908 copy of a 1901 copy of an 1894 statue by the prominent American sculptor William Wetmore Story.The mausoleum has sphinxes on both the front and the back. The back ones are Greek and female with naked breasts....
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De Anza College
Silicon Valley CA
~19.30 miles from Pescadero city center
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De Anza College is a 112-acre (453,000 m²) community college located in Cupertino, California. It was founded in 1967 on the site of the Beaulieu Winery and is named after the Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza. Along with the arrival and growth of Apple Computer, the presence of De Anza College contributed significantly to the growth of Cupertino from a small town to an industrial city and an integral part of Silicon Valley. It consistently ranks #1 or #2 in the state for the total number of students who annually transfer to University of California and California State University campuses. [1] [2] The college is one of the largest, single-campus community colleges in the country with a fall enrollment averaging 25,000 students from over 50 different countries. The college is also the...
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Palo Alto Stadium
Silicon Valley CA
~19.31 miles from Pescadero city center
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Stanford Stadium (capacity 50,000 as of 2006) is an outdoor athletic stadium on the Stanford University campus, the home of Stanford Cardinal college football team. It originally opened in 1921 as a football and track stadium, an earthen horseshoe with wooden bleacher seating and flooring upon a steel frame. Its original seating capacity was 60,000, which grew to 85,500 by 1927 as a nearly-enclosed bowl. Immediately following the 2005 season, the stadium was completely rebuilt as a dual-deck concrete structure, without a track.
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Stanford University Arboretum
Silicon Valley CA
~19.32 miles from Pescadero city center
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The Stanford University Arboretum is an arboretum located on the grounds of Stanford University in Stanford, California. It is open to the public daily without charge.The arboretum began with the indigenous live oaks on Leland Stanford's estate, which later became the university campus, augmented by a variety of trees that he collected. In 1885 Stanford contracted with noted landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted to plan the grounds. An 1888 memorandum by Olmsted, and signed by Stanford, states that the then-extant University Forest and the Arboretum were to be combined, and that "In this enlarged Arboretum it is desired that there shall be exhibited to advantage all the trees and wood plants of the world that may be expected to grow to mature natural forms under the climatic and other...
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San Antonio Shopping Center
Silicon Valley CA
~19.51 miles from Pescadero city center
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San Antonio Shopping Center is an outdoor shopping mall located on El Camino Real at San Antonio Road in Mountain View, California. It is one of the biggest shopping malls in Mountain View, and its proximity to Los Altos and Palo Alto also attracts shoppers from the nearby towns. The mall's anchor stores include 24 Hour Fitness, Ross Dress For Less, Trader Joe's, Sears and Wal-Mart.
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Downtown Menlo Park (Neighborhood)
Atherton CA
~19.61 miles from Pescadero city center
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Palo Alto
Atherton CA
~19.92 miles from Pescadero city center
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Palo Alto (pronounced /?pælo?'ælto?/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" (or "pole" or "tree") and alto: "tall") is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, USA. It is named after a tree called El Palo Alto. The city includes portions of Stanford University and is headquarters to a number of Silicon Valley high-technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard, VMware and Facebook. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 58,598 residents.
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Downtown Cupertino (Neighborhood)
Silicon Valley CA
~20.00 miles from Pescadero city center
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Elizabeth Gamble Garden Center
Silicon Valley CA
~20.04 miles from Pescadero city center
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Cupertino
Silicon Valley CA
~20.06 miles from Pescadero city center
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Cupertino (pronounced /?ku?p?r'ti?no?/) is a suburban city in Santa Clara County, California, U.S., directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The population was 50,546 at the time of the 2000 census. The town has given its name to the Cupertino effect.
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Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
Silicon Valley CA
~20.09 miles from Pescadero city center
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The Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts is located in downtown Mountain View, California. It is operated by the City of Mountain View and hosts a variety of art events. Its home theatre companies include Peninsula Youth Theatre and TheatreWorks.
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Downtown Mountain View (Neighborhood)
Silicon Valley CA
~20.29 miles from Pescadero city center
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Mountain View
Silicon Valley CA
~20.55 miles from Pescadero city center
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Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 70,708.Mountain View is located at 37°25'19?N 122°5'4?W (37.42223, -122.08429).According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 31.7 km² (12.2 mi²). 31.2 km² (12.1 mi²) of it is land and 0.4 km² (0.2 mi²) of it (1.39%) is water.Mountain View is located on the San Francisco Peninsula, at the north end of State Route 85, where it meets U.S. Route 101. The historic route El Camino Real also runs through Mountain View. It is bounded to the northwest by Palo Alto, to the southwest by Los Altos, to the southeast by Sunnyvale, and to the northeast by the San Fra...
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Montessori Teacher Training
317 Moorpark Way Mountain View CA - 650-967-6695
~20.71 miles from Pescadero city center
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Tucked away in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area of California is the Montessori Teacher Training Center of Northern California (MTTCofNC) in Mountain View. The Center opened in 1965 and offers training at the primary level (3-6 year-olds) accredited by Association Montessori Internationale (AMI). MTTCofNC welcomes all applicants and offers easy access for US and international trainees. The Center is authorized to issue student visas. AMI Montessori trained personnel for pre-school programs are in great demand worldwide.The training staff has over 84 years combined experience in AMI teaching and training. The Center is a peaceful environment. The weather is warm and pleasant most of the year. Students have indoor and outdoor facilities for work, study and relaxation. During the course...
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Downtown El Granada (Neighborhood)
El Granada CA
~21.26 miles from Pescadero city center
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Downtown Sunnyvale (Neighborhood)
Silicon Valley CA
~21.26 miles from Pescadero city center
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Four Mile Beach
Santa Cruz CA
~21.27 miles from Pescadero city center
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This famous stretch of sandy shore is one of the most well known beaches in the world. In addition to the outdoor activities that abound on the pristine shore, there are also shops, restaurants, bars and Sunday market. There is also a nearby wildlife center, tours and excursions and a golf course within a short distance of the beach. Travelers to Port Douglas will want to be sure to add the beach and its neighboring activities to their itinerary.
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