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WHERE TO HIKE, BIKE, SAIL AND PLAY of Woodside, Kings Mountain Road Fishing provides a good route to reach Skyline. • graphics.stanford.edu/~lucasp/ Licenses Fishing licenses are required grade/kingsmountain.html in California for all fi shing endeavors. You can get a license at sporting goods Old La Honda Road This narrow, winding stores or online. Annual California road is the easiest and most peaceful way resident’s fees vary. Other short-term to climb to Skyline or ride to the coast. licenses are available. Access is from Portola Road, less than a • 916-445-0411 mile after it merges with Sand Hill Road. • [email protected] • 650-328-7411, Palo Alto Bicycles • www.dfg.ca.gov Page Mill Road - Kings Mountain By far Arastradero Lake 1530 Arastradero the most strenuous climb around, Page Road, Palo Alto. Mill Road twists and turns 7 miles from • 650-329-2423 the valley fl oor to Skyline Boulevard, • [email protected] where it tops out around 2,000 feet. • www.cityofpaloalto.org • www.rahul.net/kenton/fun/bike/ PageMill_KingsMountain.html Boronda Lake Foothills Park on Page Woodside-Portola Valley Loop This Mill Road, Palo Alto. local favorite is a 26-mile loop of fl at • 650-329-2423 to mildly hilly terrain. • www.paloalto- • [email protected] bicycles.com/loopmap/loop.html • www.cityofpaloalto.org, search for Boronda Lake Dance Dumbarton Fishing Pier 2 Marshland Road, Fremont. Beaudoin’s School of Dance • 510-792-0222 464 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto. • fi shit.freeshell.org/dumbarton.htm • 650-326-2184 • www.beaudoins-studio.com South San Francisco Bay Fishing • www.ichthy.com Caribbean Dance with Live Drumming Cubberley Dance Studio, 4000 Middlefi eld Road, Palo Alto. Golf (private courses) • 415-282-9620 • [email protected] Palo Alto Hills Golf and Country Club • home.earthlink.net/~dkaiso/ 3000 Alexis Drive, Palo Alto. • 650-948-1800 Congolese Dance with Regine • www.pahgcc.com Cubberley Dance Studio, 4000 Middlefi eld Road, G-6, Palo Alto. Stanford Golf Course 198 Junipero • Robin Argwal at 650-279-1070 Serra Blvd., Stanford. • [email protected] • 650-327-6595 for golf course, 650- • www.congolesecamp.org 498-4461 for driving range Veronica Weber • stanfordgolfcourse.com DanceVisions Cubberley Community Center, 4000 Middlefi eld Road, Room L-3, Palo Alto. Golf (public courses) • 650-858-2005 • [email protected] Palo Alto Golf Course 1875 • www.danceaction.org or www. Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. • 650-856-0881 Visitors to the Duck Pond at the Baylands Nature Center can get up close and personal, dancevisions.org • www.paloaltogolfcourse.com while tossing in bread chunks. L’Ecole de Danse Cubberley Dance Studio, 4000 Middlefi eld Road, Palo Alto. Shoreline Golf Links 2940 N. Shoreline Basketball • 650-691-2150 (trail conditions hotline) • 650-365-4596 Blvd., Mtn. View. • www.openspace.org/activities/ • www.lecolededanse.net • 650-903-GOLF (4653) and 650-962- Adult leagues Palo Alto ideas_for_bikers.asp 1014 for restaurant • 650-329-2464 Palo Alto Arts & Sciences Division • www.ci.mtnview.ca.us, search Shore- • www.cityofpaloalto.org/recreation Road biking What really makes this area • 650-463-4900 or drop by any com- line Golf Links a haven for cyclists is the abundance munity center for a catalog Bay Area Adult 3on3 Basketball 4120 of nearby routes that off er something • www.cityofpaloalto.org/enjoy Middlefi eld Road, Cubberley Community for everyone, from competitive pedal Hiking/walking Center, Palo Alto. Tuxedo Junction 4000 Middlefi eld pushers to recreational riders. Here are Bay Area Orienteering Club • [email protected] Road, Palo Alto. some of the better-known foothill and • 650-856-6991 or 650-856-9930 • www.baoc.org • www.leaguelineup.com/bayarea3on3 valley bike routes: • www.cubberleyballroom.com Midpeninsula Regional Open Space Biking Canada Road This mostly fl at road Uforia Studios 819 Ramona St., Palo District 330 Distel Circle, Los Altos. (pronounced “Kan-ya-da”) parallels Alto. • 650-691-1200 See also Mountain biking. I-280 for 7.3 miles from Woodside Road • 650-329-8794 • [email protected] to Hwy. 92, past such scenic attractions Bicycling is allowed in 16 of the • www.uforiastudios.com • www.openspace.org as the Filoli Estate and the Pulgas Water Midpeninsula Regional Open Space Temple. Zohar Dance Company Cubberley Palo Alto Baylands Preserve 2775 District’s 26 preserves, but only on • 650-361-1785, San Mateo County Community Center, 4000 Middlefi eld Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto. clearly designated paths. Helmets are Bicycle Sunday Info Line Road, Room L-4, Palo Alto. • 650-329-2506 required at all times. A speed limit • www.chainreaction.com/canada_ • 650-494-8221 • www.cityofpaloalto.org/depts/csd of 15 mph (5 mph when passing) is road.htm • [email protected] Santa Clara County Parks enforced. • www.zohardancecompany.org Kings Mountain Road Beginning out • www.parkhere.org/portal/site/parks 32 • Info Palo Alto www.PaloAltoOnline.com (650) 323-1900 258 High Street Palo Alto serenogroup.com REDEFINING REAL ESTATE SINCE 2006 i Palo Alto www.cityofpaloalto.org/smartenergy (650) 329–2241 Sierra Club, Loma Prieta Chapter 3921 • 650-691-1200 E. Bayshore Road Ste. 204, Palo Alto. • [email protected] • 650-390-8411 • www.openspace.org • [email protected] • http://lomaprieta.sierraclub.org Pearson-Arastradero Preserve 1530 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto. Stanford Foothills including “the Dish.” • 650-329-2423 • 650-926-0275 • [email protected] • [email protected] • www.cityofpaloalto.org, www. My customers build bahiker.com Windy Hill Open Space Preserve Starts on Portola Road, .8 miles from Russian Ridge and Coal Creek Open satellites, make intersection of Alpine and Portola roads. Space Preserves Skyline Boulevard, • 650-691-1200 in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Los • [email protected] Altos Hills. • www.openspace.org • 650-691-1200 electric cars and teach • [email protected] Horseback riding • www.openspace.org your children—while Fremont Hills Stables 26941 Purissima Santa Clara County Parks 298 Garden Road, Los Altos Hills. Hill Drive, Los Gatos. • 650-948-9980 or 650-619-6900 • 408-355-2201 • www.fremonthillsstables.com • [email protected] also saving the planet. • www.parkhere.org Santa Clara County Horsemen’s Association 20350 McKean Road, San I’ve been with the City of Palo Alto Utilities for over Jose. Parks • 408-268-6155 Palo Alto parks and plazas Most of 20 years now, but my job constantly changes due to • [email protected] Palo Alto’s 28 parks are open from dawn advances in technology and ongoing discoveries of • www.horsemens.org to dusk unless otherwise indicated. No Webb Ranch 2720 Alpine Road, Menlo alcohol permitted at individual sites. new ways to conserve resources. Park. • 650-496-6962 • 650-854-7755 (lesson offi ce), 650- • www.cityofpaloalto.org 854-RIDE Baylands Preserve 2775 Embarcadero I work directly with our largest business customers • [email protected] • www.webbranchinc.com Road. on energy and water saving projects that benefit our • 650-329-2506 for Baylands Nature entire community. Ice skating Center Bol Park 3590 Laguna Ave. Winter Lodge 3009 Middlefi eld Road, I feel a little like I’m on a mission to save the planet, Palo Alto. Boulware Park 410 Fernando Ave., • 650-493-4566 Palo Alto. and that gets me out of bed in the morning. • www.winterlodge.com Bowden Park 2380 High St., Palo Alto. Learn more about how you can use energy more In-line skating Bowling Green Park 474 Embarcadero Road. (See Lawn Bowling.) efficiently at www.CityofPaloAlto.org/SmartEnergy In-line skating • www.caskating.com/region/San_ Byxbee Park 2375 Embarcadero Road. Francisco_-_South_Bay Cameron Park 2101 Wellesley St. Judo Cogswell Plaza 264 Lytton Ave. —Bruce Lesch Palo Alto Judo Club 2751 Louis Road, Don Jesus Ramos Park 800 E. Meadow Key Account Rep., Palo Alto. Drive. Utilities Marketing Services • [email protected] Don Secundino Robles Park 4116 Park • www.paloaltojudo.com Blvd. Lawn bowling El Camino Park 100 El Camino Real. Palo Alto Lawn Bowls Club Bowling El Palo Alto Park 117 Palo Alto Ave. Green Park, 474 Embarcadero Road, Palo Eleanor Pardee Park 851 Center Drive. Alto. • club house at 650 323-2575 or Ginger Foothills Park 3300 Page Mill Road. Harris, president, at 650-464-3724 • 650-329-2423 • [email protected] • www.palbc.org Greer Park 1098 Amarillo Ave. Henry W. Seale Park 3100 Stockton Mountain biking Place. Alpine Road in the Santa Cruz Heritage Park 300 Homer Ave. Mountains above Los Altos Hills. • 650-463-4900 for picnic reservation • www.trails.com/tcatalog_trail. aspx?trailid=BGS100-025 Hoover Park 2901 Cowper St. Midpeninsula Regional Open Space Hopkins Creekside Park Palo Alto District 330 Distel Circle, Los Alto. Avenue, from Emerson to Marlowe • 650-691-1200 streets. • [email protected] Johnson Park Everett Avenue between • www.openspace.org/activities/ Kipling and Waverley streets. ideas_for_bikers.asp Juana Briones Park 609 Maybell Ave. Monte Bello Open Space Preserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains, above Los Kellogg Park Waverley Street at Altos Hills. 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