Mountain View from the air
Downtown on Castro Street
All-season farmers’ market, Evelyn Avenue
Shoreline Park in the distance
Google HQ in the foreground
Pictures credit: Flickr Creative Commons.
Our area, our city, our neighborhood
We’re on the San Francisco Peninsula, in the heart of Silicon Valley, about 35 miles southeast of San Francisco, 10 miles northwest of San Jose, and 8 miles southeast of Stanford University.
Our main address is 445 Calderon Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94041; that’s where our community office gets mail. However, each of our 19 homes has its own street address. As you can see on the map of the neighborhood, our site is close to Landels elementary school and park, and to the
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We’re in the Old Mountain View residential neighborhood, within easy walking distance to Castro Street and the center of Mountain View, as well as to the CalTrain and light rail station and to El Camino Real. (Here’s what Wikipedia says about our town).
Highways 101, 85, and 237 provide access to other parts of the Bay area. We’re in the Mountain View High School portion of the Mountain View-Los Altos Union School District.
A hub site that provides many other links to information about downtown Mountain View: www.mountainviewdowntown.com.
The City of Mountain View’s own website can be found at: www.mountainview.gov/about/default.asp.