Transportation

Bay Area transit information
CalTrain schedule
Palo Alto Free Shuttle Service

Palo Alto

Palo Alto Online Information about community news, events, restaurant reviews, park and recreation facilities, organizations, businesses, interactive forums.

The City of Palo Alto Information about the city, city government, transportation.

The Palo Alto Weekly A local paper with stories, movie reviews, classifieds, restaurant menus, and other local information.

California Avenue One of the nice commercial streets of Palo Alto, with a number of very nice restaurants.

Palo Alto Weekly restaurant reviews (incude menus)
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

Nearby towns

City of Menlo Park

City of Mountain View

City of Los Altos

Bay Area

General Information

Bay Area CitySearch Portal
San Jose portal site
San Jose Mercury News San Jose's newspaper. Includes color pictures and a good searching service for classified ads.
Weather You can get the local weather here.

San Francisco

San Francisco portal site
The San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner Both of San Francisco's newspapers (in the process of merging!). Includes sports, entertainment, columnists, and some search capabilities.
More on what is happening in San Francisco
Traveler information
Alcatraz

Outdoor Activities, Parks

Bay Area Backcountry- hiking and camping close to the Bay Area
East Bay Parks
Mid-peninsula Open Space Preserves
California State Parks in the Bay Area A great set of pointers to all the beautiful local state parks.Note that this does not include the parks administered by the  National Park service (such as Muir Woods, or the Pinnacles) or the local parks.Of Particular interest: Mount Diablo,  Big Basin,  Ano Nuevo State Reserve, and  Castle Rock State Park.
Muir Woods
Point Reyes National Seashore
The Pinnacles National Monument

Events and Attractions

Events in the Silicon Valley Area
Bay Area Concerts
The Palo Alto French Film Society
Local concerts, movies, attractions, etc. suggested by the Palo Alto Weebly
San Francisco Opera
Opera San Jose
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

Museums

Intel Museum
Tech Museum of Innovation opened in late 1998 and already a classic
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) definitely worth a visit
The Metreon A new Sony entertainment center/technology exhibit in San Francisco featuring, among others, an IMAX theater

For kids

Children's Discovery Museum
Happy Hollow Park and Zoo
Paramount's Great America A fancy amusement park
San Francisco Zoo

Emergency Medical Care

Stanford Medical Hospital

Palo Alto Medical Foundation

Kaiser Permanente with locations throughout California

Beyond the Bay Area

National Parks and State Parks

California State Parks
The National Park service has pointers to all the National Parks located in California, including Yosemite, Sequoia, King's Canyon, Death Valley, Lassen Volcanic Park, etc.
Yosemite National Park Unofficial site
Yosemite Traveler's Information

Wine Country

Napa Valley Home to numerous world-class wineries...
Sonoma Valley More of the same
Insider's guide to California's Wine Country
Wine Country

Other Great Places to visit

Mendocino Coast
Monterey Peninsula
 
 
 

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Last modified: Tue Mar 21 14:45:01 2000