El Palo Alto
El Palo Alto is a coast redwood located on the banks of San Francisquito Creek in Palo Alto, California, a city in the San Francisco Bay Area. The namesake of the city and a historical landmark, El Palo Alto is 1085–1086 years old and stands 110 feet tall.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Park
- Description: historic coast redwood in Palo Alto, California
- Also known as: “El Palo Alto Park”
Places of Interest
Highlights include El Camino Park and Stanford Shopping Center.
Stanford Shopping Center
Shopping center
Photo: Coolcaesar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stanford Shopping Center is an upscale open air shopping mall located on Route 82 at Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, California. It is on the campus of Stanford University although the university only owns the land and not the actual buildings or stores.
Stanford Theatre
Movie theater
Photo: HP R817, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Stanford Theatre is a classical independent movie theater in Palo Alto, California. It was designed and built in the 1920s as a movie palace styled in neoclassical Persian and Moorish architecture.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Menlo Park and Palo Alto.
Menlo Park
Photo: Annette Teng, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Menlo Park is a suburban, tree-lined community in San Mateo County midway between the major cities of San Francisco and San Jose. Menlo Park offers visitors easy access to Stanford, Palo Alto and Silicon Valley.
Palo Alto
Photo: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Palo Alto is a bustling suburb in Santa Clara County south of the city of San Francisco. It is adjacent to Stanford University and home to hundreds of Silicon Valley technology companies, ranging from VMware and Hewlett-Packard to tiny startups operating in garages.
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley lies in the South Bay and the southern Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area. Once best known for its prune orchards, the area underwent explosive growth with the creation of the high-tech industry in the 1960s.
El Palo Alto
- Categories: remarkable tree, forest, and recreation area
- Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.44736° or 37° 26′ 51″ northLongitude
-122.16994° or 122° 10′ 12″ westElevation
66 feet (20 metres)Operator
City of Palo AltoOpen location code
849VCRWJ+W2OpenStreetMap ID
way 612797345OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkGeoNames ID
5380772Wikidata ID
Q689053
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“El Palo Alto” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “埃尔帕洛阿尔托”
- Chinese: “帕罗奥图树”
- Dutch: “El Palo Alto”
- French: “El Palo Alto”
- German: “El Palo Alto”
- Hebrew: “אל פאלו אלטו”
- Indonesian: “El Palo Alto”
- Italian: “El Palo Alto”
- Manipuri: “ꯑꯦꯜ ꯄꯥꯂꯣ ꯑꯜꯇꯣ”
- Romanian: “El Palo Alto”
- Spanish: “El Palo Alto”
- Swedish: “El Palo Alto”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include El Palo Alto (city’s namesake redwood tree) and San Francisquito Bridge.
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