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Giant California Bay Laurel near Permanente Creek in Rancho San Antonio County Park. The State's tallest and third largest California bay laurel tree (Umbellularia californica), estimated to be over 200 years old, grows in Rancho San Antonio County Park. The tree was protected in 2004 with the addition of fencing and by the removal of a nearby ...
Permanente Creek is a 13.3-mile-long (21.4 km) [3] stream originating on Black Mountain in Santa Clara County, California, United States.Named by early Spanish explorers as Arroyo Permanente or Río Permanente because of its perennial flow, [1] the creek descends the east flank of Black Mountain then courses north through Los Altos and Mountain View, discharging into southwest San Francisco ...
Rancho San Antonio was a 7,982-acre (32.30 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Clara County, California given in 1839 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Juan Prado Mesa. [1] The grant was bounded by Adobe Creek to the north and Stevens Creek to the south, and included Permanente Creek, and present-day Los Altos Hills. [2] [3]
It is located on the border between Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve and Monte Bello Open Space Preserve, with the summit located in the former. Early Spanish explorers commonly named tree- or chaparral-covered summits which look black in the distance Loma Prieta , from the Spanish ( loma -hill, prieta -dark). [ 3 ]
Santa Clara County purchased approximately 9,553 acres (38.7 km 2) of the land in 1975, and created this public park. Joseph D. Grant County Park is situated in the Diablo Range, near Mount Hamilton. Elevations range from about 1,400 feet (427 m) in Halls Valley to peaks over 2,985 feet (910 m) on the Park's eastern edge. [3]
The Preserve connects upper Stevens Creek County Park with Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve, Los Trancos Open Space Preserve, and Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve, enabling many different long hike combinations. Monte Bello boasts grassland, Douglas fir, live oak, and California bay forests, an excellent riparian corridor, great views ...
Possum Hollow Farm Produce & Eggs is located at 820 Pleasant Drive, Patterson Springs. Reporter Rebecca Sitzes can be reached at rsitzes@gannett.com.
The district's tax and voter base consists of about 550 square miles (1,400 km 2) and 741,000 people, mostly in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. District revenues for fiscal year 2012-2013 were $33 million, with $30.3 million coming directly from a portion of property taxes.