Transcript What Can You Do in the Santa Clara County Parks? See waterfalls at Uvas Canyon County Park.

What Can You Do in
the
Santa Clara County
Parks?
See waterfalls at Uvas Canyon County
Park
Learn to Fish at Fishing in the City,
Coyote-Hellyer County Park
Go hiking
Hotel Trail, Joseph D. Grant
County Park
Walk your dog
Los Gatos Creek Trail
See and ride horses at Calero
County Park
Camp and fish at Coyote
Lake County Park
Visit the historic Villa Montalvo estate
Go biking on the Coyote Creek
Trail
Practice archery
at Santa Teresa
County Park
Go fishing at Los Gatos Creek County
Park
Play Golf at the Spring Valley Golf
Course, Ed R. Levin County Park
Go target shooting at Field Sports County Park
View historic structures
Mine Hill Rotary Furnace, Almaden Quicksilver
County Park
Go for a
picnic at Los
Gatos Creek
County Park
Go for a walk near the
Bay at Alviso Marina
County Park
Go mountain-biking in Santa
Teresa County Park
Go power-boating at Calero Reservoir County Park
Take your dog to the dog run in Ed Levin County
Park
Take your kids
fishing at
Fishing in the
City, Vasona
Lake County
Park
See Indian grinding rocks and
petroglyphs at Chitactac-Adams County
Park
Go boat-fishing on Uvas
Reservoir
Go for a stroll on the Coyote Creek
Go para-gliding at Ed Levin County Park
Play tennis at Rancho San Antonio County
Park/OSP
Go biking on the Los Gatos
Creek Trail
Go fishing at Stevens Creek County Park
Fly radio-controlled electric planes
at Rancho San Antonio County Park
Have a group picnic at Vasona
Lake
Camp in the redwoods at Sanborn-Skyline
Enjoy the pond and garden at Penitencia
Creek
Practice your swing at Santa Teresa Golf Club
View the South County from the Mendoza Trail
in Coyote Lake-Harvey Bear Ranch County
Park
Listen to a concert at Villa
Go on a wildflower
hunt at Almaden
Quicksilver County
Park
See fallow deer at Mt.
Madonna County Park
Go boating at
Coyote Lake
County Park
See summer movies and music at Vasona Lake
County Park
View the Bay Area from Coyote
Peak in Santa Teresa County
Park
See what life was like in the mines at the New
Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum
Go skating on the
Coyote Creek Trail
Go boating on Vasona
Lake
Hike the Canada Del Oro
Trail, Calero County Park
Go Fishing at Sandy Wool Lake, Ed Levin County
Park
Play turn-of-the-century games at the BernalGulnac-Joice Ranch, Santa Teresa County Park
Ride a horse in Harvey
Bear Ranch
Take your kids to the playground at Vasona Lake
County Park
Explore the San Cristobal Mine Tunnel
in Almaden Quicksilver County Park
Learn about plants and trees on the Spring
Valley Nature Trail in Ed Levin County Park
Camp under the
stars at Joseph D.
Grant County Park
Ride track bikes at the Hellyer Park
Velodrome
Go jogging on the Los Gatos Creek
Trail
Go boating on Anderson Lake
See radio-controlled model planes at the
Santa Clara County Model Airplane Skypark,
Coyote Creek Trail
Special use permit area
Go float-tube fishing on Chesbro Reservoir
View the South Bay from the Catherine
Tunnel in Almaden Quicksilver County
Park
Walk with your family at Vasona Lake County
Park
See the Bay from the Monument Peak
Trail in Ed. R. Levin County Park
Ride a horse in Anderson Lake County Park
Tour the ranch house at Joseph D. Grant
County Park
Have a birthday party and picnic at
Hellyer County Park
Fish from a canoe on Lexington
Reservoir
Camp in shady Uvas Canyon County
Park
See wildflowers on the Bernal Hill Loop
Trail in Santa Teresa County Park
Where do park funds go?
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Park operation and maintenance
Habitat preservation and restoration
Interpretive and educational programs
Park development:
–New trails, signs, amenities
–Historic restoration
–Visitor and support facilities
• Acquisition of new parklands
Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch Dedication,
Santa Teresa County Park, 6/29/02
Mounted Ranger Unit, Santa
Teresa
County Park, Open House
9/27/03
Dedication of the Senador Mine interpretive
sign,
Almaden Quicksilver County Park, 10/11/03
Wood Road Trail Dedication at Almaden Quicksilver,
4/17/04
Dedication of the Blacksmith
Shop at the Quicksilver Mining
Museum, 10/9/04
Rancho Canada Del Oro
Dedication, Calero County
Park, 4/24/04
Harvey Bear Ranch Dedication, Coyote Lake County
Park, 5/14/05
New fence in Santa Teresa Park,
4/26/06
Group picnic site under
construction at Hellyer County
Park 5/9/06
New interpretive sign at DeAnza Knoll, Rancho San Antonio
County Park
where Juan Bautista DeAnza’s party first sees San Francisco Bay
in 1776
Go outside and
play!
Photographs and text by Ronald Horii,
Volunteer park photographer and docent,
Secretary of the Friends of Santa Teresa Park
http://www.stpfriends.org