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Rancho Seco Recreational Park is a recreational area located in the California Central Valley near the Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station in Herald, California. It is open to the public for camping, fishing, hiking and water activities. Boats are restricted to outboard electric motors which improves the lake's use as a swimming hole.
Rancho Arroyo Seco was a 16,523-acre (66.87 km 2) Mexican land grant in the Salinas Valley, in present-day Monterey County, California. It was given in 1840 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Joaquín de la Torre. [1] The grant extended along the west bank of the Salinas River at Arroyo Seco Creek, and encompassed present-day Greenfield. [2] [3]
On September 17, 1987, Pope John Paul II celebrated mass at Laguna Seca Raceway, where 72,000 people had gathered to see him. [95] In the 1990s, the raceway was the venue for the Laguna Seca Daze music festival, which featured performances from music acts in the folk, alternative rock and jam band genres.
On Sept. 3, 1977, the Grateful Dead played before 150,000 people at Raceway Park in Old Bridge.
The plant cost $375 million [1] when it was built in 1974 ($1.8 billion in 2023 dollars [2]) and it cost about $120 million in 1974 dollars to decommission ($577 million in 2023 dollars [2]), according to the SMUD Rancho Seco Nuclear Education Center.
Thunderhill Raceway Park: Willows: California: 1994 Asphalt 3.0 miles (4.8 km) 15 SCCA, 25 Hours of Thunderhill, Trans Am Series: Utah Motorsports Campus (formerly Miller Motorsports Park) Tooele: Utah: 2005 Asphalt 4.486 miles (7.220 km) 23 SCCA, World Superbike, AMA, Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series, MotoAmerica, NASA, ChampCar Endurance Series
Northbound over the Los Angeles River. The six-lane Arroyo Seco Parkway (part of State Route 110) begins at the Four Level Interchange, a symmetrical stack interchange on the north side of downtown Los Angeles that connects the Pasadena (SR 110 north), Harbor (SR 110 south), Hollywood (US 101 north), and Santa Ana (US 101 south) Freeways.
The now-decommissioned 918MW Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station was built in Herald; its site is now the location of the 1000MW gas-fired Cosumnes Power Plant and an 11 MW solar installation. The nuclear plant's disused cooling towers remain standing, and are the largest buildings in California's Central Valley . [ 3 ]