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Other Parks, Open Space, and Neighborhood

  • Santa Clara County Parks 
  • Almaden Valley Community Association 
  • About Almaden
  • Almaden Resident: "Almaden trails in middle of major upgrading projects"
  • Ron Horii's Bay Area Backpages:
  • Bay Area Biking - Los Alamitos Creek Trail
  • Bay Area Hiking - Santa Clara County Parks and City Parks
  • How Green is My Valley
  • Places to Take Young Children
  • Places to Take School-Age Children
  • Ron Horii's San Francisco Bay Travel and Recreation Page 
  • Coyote Creek Trail
  • Santa Teresa County Park Page 
  • Friends of Santa Teresa Park 
  • Santa Teresa Hills and the Coyote-Alamitos Canal
  • Supervisor Bianca Alvarado's Newsfax: "Go Outside and Play"
  • City of San Jose Park, Recreation, and Neighborhood Services
  • Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District - Sierra Azul
  • Open Space Views: Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve
  • Bay Area Ridge Trail Council
  • Bay Area Open Space Council
  • Santa Clara County Open Space Authority
  • Peninsula Open Space Trust
  • Bay Area Barns and Trails
  • Bay Area Backcountry
  • AlmadenValley.com
  • Almaden Valley
  • Planning for Improvements to Almaden Lake Park
  • POST Protects Meadow Site Overlooking San Jose
  • Dog Parks for Exercise and Socialization
  • Mount Umunhum: Memories of Our Past & a Key to Our Future
  • SFBG: The green, green grass of home - Some of the Bay Area's best open spaces are also the least crowded.

    • History, Preservation, and News

  • Almaden Resident: " New Almaden residents toil to restore the aged beauty of their historic homes"
  • Woz Way Projects: The Great California Quicksilver Rush
  • "County Parks has acquired Casa Grande and Club Almaden Gardens" 
  • California State Historic Landmark 339 - New Almaden Mine 
  • Tour of the New Almaden Mines
  • New Almaden Mines
  • Ghost Towns - New Almaden
  • A Tradition of Hospitality (La Foret Restaurant)
  • National Register of Historic Places: New Almaden
  • History of Mexican Americans in California: Spanishtown Site
  • Lost Gatos Weekly-Times: "Decorum Decomposed - Nothing's sacred where double entendre and bathroom humor rule 
  • Spotlight on...Barbary Coast Theatre (formerly at the New Almaden Opry House
  • The Barbary Coast Theatre (now in Monterey)
  • "County Steps in to Buy Historic Club Almaden"
  • Past Forward: New Almaden Quicksilver Mine
  • Casa Grande Historic Structures Report
  • Mercury News: "Saving Almaden's Casa Grande"
  • Mercury News: "Board Saves Old Opry House"
  • Losgatos.com: "Los Gatos Was Once Best Gateway to New Almaden
  • Doug and Connie Perham
  • U.S. Army: Henry Wager Halleck
  • The 1911 Edition Encyclopedia: Henry Wager Halleck
  • Mary Hallock Foote, Write and Illustrator
  • Bulmore Historical Park plaque
  • California: The Silicon Valley Origins
  • Resident Writes About Heritage: 'When Miners Sang' is Gage McKinney's Newest Published Book
  • Picture from the Past: Historic Cornish choral group comes to the Almaden mines
  • Stanford University: Guide to the New Almaden Mine Collection
  • History San Jose (includes the The Jimmy Schnieder and Robert Bullmore Collection of New Almaden Mine Materials in their collections).
  • Preservation Action Council of San Jose (see historic inventory, Almaden Avenue, S.)
  • Heritage Council of Santa Clara County
  • National Trust for Historic Preservation: State and Local Partnerships
  • Santa Clara County History and Genealogy Research
  • Metroactive "Grave Consequences" (historic graveyards)
  • Online Archive of California: New Almaden Mines Collection
  • Berryessa/Bernal Court Case
  • The Berryessa Family Heritage
  • Holy Spirit Parish: Over a Century of Faith in the Almaden Valley
  • California Historical Society Directory: Santa Clara Valley
  • The Almaden Mercury Mine (in Spanish)
  • The Trail Companion: Up and Down the Peninsula and South Bay
  • Book Reviews: Up and Down California in 1860-1864
  • Oakland Museum Photo: New Almaden Quicksilver Mine, 1863
  • California History Books
  • Book: Quicksilver: The Complete History of Santa Clara County's New Almaden Mine (see Epinions book review)
  • Photo of New Almaden Shooters, 1885
  • Carleton Watkins Photo: The Town on the Hill, New Almaden, 1863
  • Carleton Watkins Photo: Smelting Works, New Almaden
  • History of Mexicans in Silicon Valley
  • The Story of Almaden Vineyards
  • Haunted Hicks and New Almaden Road
  • History of California Links
  • Santa Clara County Heritage Resource Inventory
  • California State Library: Gold Rush Exhibit
  • California Room - San Jose Public Library
  • Museum of the City of San Francisco: California gold mining (see quicksilver use)
  • California Gold Rush - California Historic Sites

    • Flora and Fauna

  • IBM Almaden Research Center: Wild Almaden
  • Birding in the Almaden Valley 
  • Birding along the Alamitos Creek Trail
  • Birds West
  • Birding at the Bottom of the Bay
  • Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society
  • Mountain Lion Links
  • Wildflowers of Almaden Quicksilver Park
  • Plant List: Almaden Quicksilver
  • Pink and Purple Flowers - Almaden Quicksilver
  • California Wildflowers
  • Cal Academy Wildflowers
  • Wild-flowers.com

    • Hiking, Biking, Horseback Riding, Trails and Park Usage

  • Bay Area Hiker
  • ACTC Almaden Quicksilver Park Ride 
  • Dogfriendly: Almaden Quicksilver
  • GateTrails: Almaden Quicksilver
  • GORP: New Almaden Mine
  • ROMP: Making a Difference at Almaden Quicksilver
  • MTB Insanity: Almaden Quicksilver
  • MTBReview: Quicksilver
  • MTBReview: Quicksilver Archive
  • SF Bay Area Bike Trails: New Almaden and Hicks Road Loop
  • Almaden Quicksilver Day Hike
  • SF Hiking Club: Almaden Quicksilver
  • KTVU: Bay Area Hiking - Almaden Quicksilver
  • SFBG: Almaden Quicksilver
  • Wild Recovery: Almaden Quicksilver
  • SF Bay Triathlon: Almaden Quicksilver
  • Quicksilver Running Club
  • Runner's World: On the Road - San Jose, California
  • Hike Diary: Almaden Quicksilver
  • Mercury News: "Mining Park's Trails"
  • Quicksilver 50M
  • Mountain Biking on the San Francisco Peninsula and the South Bay Area
  • Santa Clara County Horsemen's Association 
  • San Martin Horsemen's Association
  • Equisearch: A Quick Race for the Gold at Quicksilver
  • Quicksilver Endurance Rides
  • Bay Area Backroads story: Ride and Tie at Almaden Quicksilver
  • Ride and Tie website
  • Bay Area Climbing: Guadalupe Rock
  • Book: South Bay Trails
  • Book: 12 Short Hikes: San Francisco South Bay Area

    • Photography and Art

    Quicksilver Mining

    Mercury and Environmental Issues

    Disclaimer: these links are provided as a service. Their inclusion does not imply an endorsement of their content. As with all Weblinks, they can expire at any time without notice (especially to me). Sorry about that.

    Created 3/6/2001, updated 11/09/2003 by Ronald Horii