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Palo Alto Art Center

Palo Alto Art Center

3.19km from Baylands Nature Preserve

This is the place to discover art. See, make, and be inspired because everyone is an artist. The Palo Alto Art Center provides an accessible and welcoming place to engage with art. A multi-purpose center open to the public for art activities for all ages, located at 1313 Newell Road in Palo Alto. It has art classes for both adults and children, workshops, summer camps, and drop-in programs that take place in the Center's studios and classrooms.

Shoreline Lake Events

Shoreline Lake Events

3.26km from Baylands Nature Preserve

Shoreline Lake Boathouse & Bistro in Mountain View provide visitors with a convenient way to take a break from the hustle and bustle of Silicon Valley and still take advantage of the great food, private event facilities, water sports, and other types of urban recreation this region offers.It provides indoor and outdoor meeting and banquet facilities, and space rental accommodations for company picnics, weddings, birthdays, corporate and team-building functions.

Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden

Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden

4.08km from Baylands Nature Preserve

This is the former home and garden of Elizabeth Gamble. The house is in a colonial style and the garden retains an Arts and Crafts character. The original garden design was by Alan Reid. It is filled with flowers. Magnificent magnolias and a wonderful collection of hellebores. It is an oasis of beauty and tranquility, providing a community resource for horticultural education, inspiration, and enjoyment.

Shoreline Amphitheatre

Shoreline Amphitheatre

4.15km from Baylands Nature Preserve

This is an outdoor amphitheater located in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The venue has a capacity of 22,500, with 6,500 reserved seats and 16,000 general admission on the lawn. he venue has hosted popular music festivals such as Lollapalooza and Ozzfest, and also developer conferences such as the Google I/O.

Googleplex

Googleplex

4.45km from Baylands Nature Preserve

The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc. It is located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California.The original complex, with 2 million square feet of office space, is the company's second largest square footage assemblage of Google buildings, after Google's 111 Eighth Avenue building in New York City, which the company bought in 2010.

Hewlett Packard Garage LLC

Hewlett Packard Garage LLC

4.46km from Baylands Nature Preserve

This is a private museum where the company Hewlett-Packard was founded. It is located at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto, California. It is considered to be the "Birthplace of Silicon Valley". In the 1930s, Stanford University and its Dean of Engineering Frederick Terman began encouraging faculty and graduates to stay in the area instead of leaving California, and develop a high-tech region.

The Museum of American Heritage

The Museum of American Heritage

4.64km from Baylands Nature Preserve

The Museum of American Heritage is a museum in Palo Alto, California. It is dedicated to the preservation and display of electrical and mechanical technology and inventions from the 1750s through the 1950s. The museum has a large collection of artifacts that are generally not accessible to the public. Selections from the collection are displayed in a historic house at 351 Homer Ave, Palo Alto, California. MOAH is a 501 non profit organization and a member of the American Alliance of Museums.

Dumbarton Bridge

Dumbarton Bridge

5.38km from Baylands Nature Preserve

The Dumbarton Bridge crosses the San Francisco Bay along State Route 82 and links the cities of Fremont and Menlo Park. It is the shortest bridge across San Francisco Bay at 1.63 miles. It has three lanes each way and a separated bike/pedestrian lane along its south side. Like the San Mateo Bridge to the north, power lines parallel the bridge.

Computer History Museum

Computer History Museum

5.49km from Baylands Nature Preserve

The museum presents stories and artifacts of the information age and explores the computing revolution and its impact on society. The museum claims to house the largest and most significant collection of computing artifacts in the world. This includes many rare or one-of-a-kind objects such as a Cray-1 supercomputer as well as a Cray-2, Cray-3, the Utah teapot, the 1969 Neiman Marcus Kitchen Computer, an Apple I, and an example of the first generation of Google's racks of custom-designed web ser

Arizona Garden

Arizona Garden

6.1km from Baylands Nature Preserve

This is a small botanical garden specializing in cactus and succulents. It is located on the campus of Stanford University.

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts

6.22km from Baylands Nature Preserve

Art museum on the campus of Stanford University. The museum first opened in 1894 and now consists of over 130,000 square feet of exhibition space, including sculpture gardens. The museum is open to the public and charges no admission.

Memorial Church

Memorial Church

6.51km from Baylands Nature Preserve

Located on the Main Quad at the center of the Stanford University campus, it was built during the American Renaissance by Jane Stanford as a memorial to her husband Leland. The church has been called "the University's architectural crown jewel". The church's chaplains were instrumental in the founding of Stanford's religious studies department.

Hanna House

Hanna House

6.77km from Baylands Nature Preserve

Also known as simply the Hanna House, located on the Stanford University campus. It was Frank Lloyd Wright's first work in the Bay Area and his first work with non-rectangular structures. The house was chosen by the American Institute of Architects as one of seventeen buildings by the architect to be retained as an example of his contribution to American culture. The house is one-story high with a central clerestory (an outside wall of a room

Stanford Dish

Stanford Dish

8.37km from Baylands Nature Preserve

Stanford Dish, is a radio antenna in the Stanford foothills. The 150-foot-diameter dish was built in 1961 by the Stanford Research Institute. The dish is still actively used today for academic and research purposes. The area around the Dish offers a popular 3.5 mile recreational trail. This is a popular local hiking trail, with view of 280 and Stanford. There are a few trails but the main one is 3.56 miles

Los Altos History Museum

Los Altos History Museum

8.54km from Baylands Nature Preserve

A majestic museum, that showcases the history of Los Altos and surrounding areas, including the transformation of the agricultural paradise once known as the "Valley of Heart's Delight" into the high-tech Silicon Valley. The museum features both a permanent exhibit as well as temporary exhibits.

Redwood Grove Nature Preserve

Redwood Grove Nature Preserve

9.33km from Baylands Nature Preserve

Redwood Grove Nature Preserve is a 6.12 acre facility, which contains picnic tables, a boardwalk along Adobe Creek, and a Hillside Trail. It showcases a range of California ecosystems including redwood forest, the riparian floodplain of Adobe Creek, oak woodland, and native meadow. A good trekking destination and also there are so many things to see and do.

Pearson-Arastradero Preserve

Pearson-Arastradero Preserve

9.77km from Baylands Nature Preserve

This is a beautiful mixture of rolling grassland and evergreen forest. It protects most of the Arastradero Creek watershed, including its ephemeral Mayfly Creek tributary. It also includes the upper reach of the Felt Creek tributary to Stanford's Felt Reservoir. Each area of the preserve has something different to offer, whether it is a view of the bay, a quiet walk through the grasslands, or a snooze by the lake.

Aqua Adventure Water Park

Aqua Adventure Water Park

10.88km from Baylands Nature Preserve

Aqua Adventure is a water park located in Central Park in Fremont, California. Currently, there are two open and two enclosed slides that twist and turn from a height of 40 feet above pools and slide-stopping water gates called run-outs. A 700-square-foot , 3-foot-deep lazy river surrounds much of the complex, while a splash zone of water features water jets and sprays.

Baylands Park

Baylands Park

10.9km from Baylands Nature Preserve

Baylands Park provides over 70 acres of developed parkland offering active recreation, pathways and picnic areas for families and large groups. It offers biking, hiking, nature trails and access to the San Francisco Bay Trail, which connects 300 miles of trails along the shoreline of San Francisco Bay.

Coyote Hills Regional Park

Coyote Hills Regional Park

11.09km from Baylands Nature Preserve

Coyote Hills Regional Park is a regional park encompassing nearly 978 acres of land and administered by the East Bay Regional Park District. It is covered of marshland and rolling grassland covered hills, this busy park is located along the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. The most popular visitor activities by far are bicycling, walking, bird watching, jogging, nature exploration, and picnicking. Well used every season of the year, spring, summer, and fall tend to be the most popular.

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Baylands Nature Preserve

Baylands Nature Preserve

Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA

This is the largest tract of undisturbed marshland remaining in the San Francisco Bay. Fifteen miles of multi-use trails provide access to a unique mixture of tidal and fresh water habitats. The preserve encompasses 1,940 acres in both Palo Alto and East Palo Alto, and is owned by the city of Palo Alto. It is an important habitat for migratory shorebirds and is considered one of the best birdwatching spots on the West Coast.