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Gilroy Gardens Family Theme Park, often shortened to Gilroy Gardens, is a horticulture -themed amusement park located in Gilroy, California, United States. Designed and built by Michael Bonfante, the park originally opened as Bonfante Gardens in 2001. The 536-acre theme park (217 ha) is owned by the city of Gilroy and operated by Gilroy Gardens ...
The Garlic Festival, 2018. The Gilroy Garlic Festival was an annual three-day event held at Christmas Hill Park. [7] One of the nation's best-known food festivals, centered on garlic, it drew 80,000 [8] to 100,000 [9] visitors from around the country and was described as a family event. [10]
06-29504. GNIS feature IDs. 277523, 2410591. Website. www.cityofgilroy.org. Gilroy is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. Gilroy is a city south of the San Francisco Bay Area, with a population of 59,520 as of the 2020 Census. Gilroy's origins lie in the village of San Ysidro, which developed in the early 19th century from ...
1979–2019, 2021. The Gilroy Garlic Festival was a food festival in the United States, held annually from 1979 [ 1 ] to 2019 at Christmas Hill Park in Gilroy, California, on the last full weekend in July. [ 2 ] After its cancellation in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a drive-through festival was held on July 23–25 and 30–31 July and ...
The landmarks located on Route 152 include the Pacheco Pass, the Gilroy Gardens, the San Luis Reservoir, the Casa de Fruta and the Merry Cherries. SR 152 is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System , [ 4 ] and east of US 101 is part of the National Highway System , [ 5 ] a network of highways that are considered essential to the ...
California's Great America is an 112-acre (45 ha) amusement park [1] located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, it originally opened in 1976 as one of two parks built by the Marriott Corporation. Great America features over 40 rides and attractions, with Gold Striker among its ...
In 1985, Michael Bonfante, owner of Nob Hill Foods, a grocery store chain, and Tree Haven, a tree nursery in Gilroy, California, bought the trees from Hogan and transplanted 24 of them to his new amusement park, Bonfante Gardens, now called Gilroy Gardens, in Gilroy. Two of Axel's most famous trees are The Basket Tree and the Needle and Thread ...
Henry W. Coe State Park (often known simply as Henry Coe or Coe Park) is a state park of California, United States, preserving a vast tract of the Diablo Range. The park is located closest to the city of Morgan Hill, and is located in both Santa Clara and Stanislaus counties. The park contains over 87,000 acres (35,000 ha), making it the ...