New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum

New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum is a museum in Santa Clara County, California. New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum is situated nearby to Hacienda Cemetery and Memorial Park, as well as near New Almaden Post Office.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Almaden Reservoir.

Almaden Reservoir

Reservoir

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Almaden Reservoir is an artificial lake in the hills south of San Jose, California in the United States. It borders on the 4,163-acre Almaden Quicksilver County Park, which provides limited fishing, picnicking, hiking, and horseback riding activities.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Almaden and Almaden Valley.

New Almaden

Hamlet

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New Almaden, known in Spanish as Nuevo Almadén, is a historic community and former mercury mine in the Capitancillos Hills of San Jose, California, located at the southwestern point of Almaden Valley in South San Jose.

Almaden Valley

Suburb

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Almaden Valley, commonly known simply as Almaden, is a valley and neighborhood of San Jose, California, located in South San Jose. It is nestled between the Santa Cruz Mountains to the west and the Santa Teresa Hills to the east, bordering the town of Los Gatos and West San Jose neighborhood. Almaden Valley is situated 4 miles northwest of New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum.

Mountain Home

Hamlet

Mountain Home, also known as Casa Loma, is a sparsely populated area located on the eastern side of the Santa Cruz Mountains in unincorporated southwestern Santa Clara County, California, United States near Mount Chual and Rancho Canada del Oro Open Space Preserves. Mountain Home is situated 4 miles south of New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum.

New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum

Type: Museum
Address: CA
Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.17842° or 37° 10′ 42″ north

Longitude

-121.81954° or 121° 49′ 10″ west

Elevation

476 feet (145 metres)

Open location code

849W55HJ+95

OpenStreetMap ID

node 368174563

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Hacienda Cemetery and Memorial Park and New Almaden Post Office.

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