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Portola Valley is an incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States. Located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the Bay Area , Portola Valley is a small, wealthy community nestled on the eastern slopes of the Santa Cruz Mountains .
Pacific Heights (often referred to as Pac Heights [4]) is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, United States. It has panoramic views of the Golden Gate Bridge , San Francisco Bay , the Palace of Fine Arts , Alcatraz , and the Presidio .
Portola [37] is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of San Francisco, northeast of McLaren Park. It is roughly bordered by San Bruno Avenue and the James Lick Freeway ( U.S. Route 101 ) to the east, Mansell Street to the south, University Street to the west and the Southern Freeway ( Interstate 280 ) to the north.
State Route 24 (SR 24) is a heavily traveled east–west state highway in the U.S. state of California that serves the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay Area.A freeway throughout its entire length, it runs from the Interstate 580/Interstate 980 interchange (just east of the MacArthur Maze) in Oakland, and through the Caldecott Tunnel under the Berkeley Hills, to the Interstate 680 junction ...
Ladera is a census-designated place (CDP) in southern San Mateo County, California, [2] adjacent to Portola Valley. Primarily a residential community, it comprises approximately 520 homes, governed by the Ladera Community Association. The ZIP Code is 94028 and the community is inside area code 650. The population was 1,557 at the 2020 census.
Portola lies on the Middle Fork of the Feather River in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. The headwaters of the Middle Fork of the Feather River originate just east of Portola in Sierra Valley, near Beckwourth. [9] Lake Davis is located approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Portola, and is a popular fishing and camping location.
The Western Pacific Railroad Museum, a preservation society founded in 1984, is located next to the Union Pacific rail yard in Portola, California. The remaining portion of the Feather River Route follows a corridor similar to that of State Route 70 in California and former State Route 49 in Nevada.
Portola Pharmaceuticals is an American clinical stage biotechnology company that researches, develops, and commercializes drugs. The company focuses primarily on drugs used in the treatment of thrombosis and hematological malignancies . [ 2 ]