Portola Farms

Portola Farms is a recreation area in San Mateo, California. Portola Farms is situated nearby to the park Searsville Historical Marker, as well as near Searsville Lake.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve and Our Lady of the Wayside Church.

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.

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. Our Lady of the Wayside Church is situated 1¼ miles southeast of Portola Farms.

Searsville Dam

Dam

Photo: Efly, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Searsville Dam is a masonry dam in San Mateo County, California, that was completed in 1892, one year after the founding of Stanford University, and impounds Corte Madera Creek to form a reservoir known as Searsville Reservoir or Searsville Lake. Searsville Dam is situated 4,200 feet northeast of Portola Farms.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sky Londa and Woodside.

Sky Londa

Hamlet

Sky Londa is an unincorporated mountain community in San Mateo County, California, United States, located at the intersection of State Route 84 and State Route 35.

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.

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.

Portola Farms

Type: Equestrianism
Categories: recreation area and sports location
Location: San Mateo, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.39796° or 37° 23′ 53″ north

Longitude

-122.24649° or 122° 14′ 47″ west

Open location code

849V9QX3+5C

OpenStreetMap ID

way 568052124

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=horse_riding

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Searsville Historical Marker and Searsville Lake.

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