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Sunol Valley (Spanish: Valle de Suñol) is located in Alameda County, California, United States. The small town of Sunol lies in the valley. It is largely rural, but is in proximity to the highly populated Bay Area suburbs of Fremont , Pleasanton , and Livermore .
Sunol (Spanish: Suñol) is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Alameda County, California. Located in the Sunol Valley of the East Bay , the population was 922 at the 2020 census. It is best known as the location of the Sunol Water Temple and for its historic tourist railroad system, the Niles Canyon Railway .
The Sunol Water Temple is located at 505 Paloma Way in Sunol, California. Designed by Willis Polk , the 59-foot (18 m) high classical pavilion is made up of twelve concrete Corinthian columns and a concrete ring girder that supports the conical wood and tile roof.
Niles Canyon is a canyon in the San Francisco Bay Area formed by Alameda Creek, known for its heritage railroad and silent movie history.The canyon is largely in an unincorporated area of Alameda County, while the western portion of the canyon lies within the city limits of Fremont and Union City.
The Sunol Regional Wilderness is a regional park in Alameda County, the eastern San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California. It is located near the town of Sunol , south of Pleasanton and east of Fremont .
SR 84 then leaves Fremont through the historic Sunol Valley. Parts of the valley are extremely narrow and are referred to as Niles Canyon; this part of the route is officially a scenic route. [5] The section is known as Niles Canyon Road, and there are legends of a Niles Canyon ghost inhabiting the area. [6]
The Niles Canyon Railway (NCRy) is a heritage railway running on the first transcontinental railroad alignment (1866, 1869) through Niles Canyon, between Sunol and the Niles district of Fremont in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, United States.
Don Antonio Suñol, one of the grantees of Rancho Valle de San José in 1839. Antonio María Pico, another of the grantees and brother-in-law of Suñol.. Rancho Valle de San José (also called "Valle de San José y Corralitos") was a 48,436-acre (196.01 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Alameda County, California.