Thornewood Open Space Preserve
Thornewood Open Space Preserve is a small regional park located in the Santa Cruz Mountains in San Mateo County. The park lies in the San Francisco Bay Area and is operated by the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Our Lady of the Wayside Church and Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve.
Our Lady of the Wayside Church
Church
Photo: Jack Boucher, Public domain.
Our Lady of the Wayside Church is a modest church built in 1912 for the then-growing Catholic parish of Portola Valley by a combined effort of Jewish, Protestant and Catholic members of The Family, a San Francisco men's club that owns a nearby rural retreat.
Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
Nature reserve
The Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve is a 1,190 acres nature preserve and biological field station formally established as a reserve in 1973. The biological preserve is owned by Stanford University, and is part of the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve is situated 1½ miles northeast of Thornewood Open Space Preserve.
Portola Valley School
Town hall
The Portola Valley School is a one-room schoolhouse that sits at 775 Portola Road in Portola Valley, California. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It is currently used for Portola Valley town-hall meetings.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sky Londa and Portola Valley.
Sky Londa
Hamlet
Sky Londa is an unincorporated mountain community in San Mateo County, California located at the intersection of State Route 84 and State Route 35. The community is inside area code 650 and ZIP code 94062.
Portola Valley
Photo: Jack Boucher, Public domain.
Portola Valley is on the Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. The city is in San Mateo County and is south of Woodside and west of Menlo Park.
Woodside
Photo: Jawed, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Woodside is a small town on the San Francisco Peninsula in California. It is considered one of the wealthiest towns in the United States, and is home to many celebrities and executives. Despite its small size, Woodside features many local attractions.
Thornewood Open Space Preserve
- Type: Park
- Description: small park in the San Francisco Bay Area mountains
- Category: regional park
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
“Thornewood Open Space Preserve” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Thornewood Open Space Preserve”
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Highlights include Schilling Lake and Alambique Creek.
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