Parks and Trails
- Almaden Lake Park, South San Jose
- Almaden Quicksilver County Park, South San Jose
- Alum Rock Park, East San Jose
- Bay Area Ridge Trail, surrounds and crosses the valley
- Belgatos Park and connected Heintz, and Santa Rosa open space preserves, Los Gatos
- Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Santa Cruz Mountains
- Castle Rock State Park, Santa Cruz Mountains
- Ed R. Levin County Park, Milpitas
- Fremont Older Open Space Preserve, Saratoga
- Grant Ranch Park, East San Jose/Mount Hamilton
- Guadalupe River Trail, downtown San Jose, Willow Glen and South San Jose
- Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Santa Cruz Mountains
- Kelley Park, Willow Glen (south-central San Jose)
- Lake Cunningham, East San Jose
- Los Alamitos Creek Trail, South San Jose
- Los Gatos Creek Trail, West San Jose, Campbell and Los Gatos
- Plaza de César Chávez, downtown San Jose
- Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve, Santa Cruz Mountains
- Rosicrucian Park, downtown San Jose
- Sanborn Park, Saratoga and Santa Cruz Mountains
- San Francisco Bay Trail, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose and Milpitas
- Shoreline Park, Mountain View, Mountain View
- Stevens Creek Trail, Cupertino, Sunnyvale and Mountain View
- Vasona Park, Los Gatos
- Villa Montalvo Arboretum, Saratoga
See additional hiking trails, and open space preserves at: Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
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“Perhaps our own woods and fields,—in the best wooded towns, where we need not quarrel about the huckleberries,—with the primitive swamps scattered here and there in their midst, but not prevailing over them, are the perfection of parks and groves, gardens, arbors, paths, vistas, and landscapes. They are the natural consequence of what art and refinement we as a people have.... Or, I would rather say, such were our groves twenty years ago.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Perhaps our own woods and fields,—in the best wooded towns, where we need not quarrel about the huckleberries,—with the primitive swamps scattered here and there in their midst, but not prevailing over them, are the perfection of parks and groves, gardens, arbors, paths, vistas, and landscapes. They are the natural consequence of what art and refinement we as a people have.... Or, I would rather say, such were our groves twenty years ago.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“My noisy denunciation trails off in doubt.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)