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Rancho San Antonio County Park and Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve are a conjoined public recreational area in the Santa Cruz Mountains, in the northwest quadrant of Santa Clara County, California. The County Park is bordered by Los Altos with some parts of the eastern part of the County Park in western Cupertino.
Rancho San Antonio County Park, a Santa Clara county park, located on the former Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Clara County, California Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve , a Midpeninsula Regional Open Space Preserve, adjacent to the county park, located on the former Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Clara County, California
The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District - a system of regional parks and nature reserves in the western and southern San Francisco Bay Area of northern California. The protected areas are located within Santa Clara , Santa Cruz , and San Mateo Counties .
The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District has permanently preserved almost 63,500 acres (25,700 ha) of mountainous, foothill, and bayland open space, creating 26 open space preserves. [citation needed] Of the district's 26 preserves, 24 are open to the public free of charge, 365 days a year from dawn until one-half hour after sunset.
Juan Prado Mesa was born in Santa Clara in 1806, grandson of Corporal José Valerio Mesa who came to California with the Anza Expedition, and served as a soldier at the San Francisco Presidio becoming Alférez in 1835. Governor Juan Alvarado granted the 7,982-acre (32.30 km 2) Rancho San Antonio to Juan Prado Mesa in 1839. [11]
Plaza de César Chávez, downtown San Jose; Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve, Santa Cruz Mountains; Rosicrucian Park, downtown San Jose; San Francisco Bay Trail, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose and Milpitas; Sanborn Park, Saratoga and Santa Cruz Mountains; Santa Teresa County Park, South San Jose
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 bought 490 acres for $4 million to expand Mt. Madonna County Park. [8] Restored Casa Grande landmark reopens at Santa Clara County Park, November, 2010. [9] 14 miles of new trails coming to Santa Clara County park. [10] Silicon Valley holdout: 287-acre farm in the heart of sprawl on the way to becoming public park. [11]