Merced
Merced is a city in and the county seat of Merced County, California, United States, in the San Joaquin Valley.
Merced is a city in and the county seat of Merced County, California, United States, in the San Joaquin Valley. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 86,333, up from 78,958 in 2010. Incorporated on April 1, 1889, Merced is a charter city that operates under a council–manager government. It is named after the Merced River, which flows nearby.
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Worth seeing in and around Merced
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Merced Theatre
The Merced Theatre is located at 301 W. Main Street, at the corner of Main Street and Martin Luther King Way, in Merced, California. The theatre is significant both for its role as the social and cultural center of Merced from the Depression through the post World War II era and for its mix of Art Deco and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture.
300 m · theater and movie theater in Merced, California, United States · Wikipedia - 02Merced College
Merced College is a public community college in Merced, California.
4 km · public community college in Merced, California · Wikipedia - 03Lake Yosemite
Lake Yosemite is an artificial freshwater lake located approximately 5 mi east of Merced, California, in the rolling Sierra Foothills. UC Merced is situated approximately 0.5 mi south of Lake Yosemite.
9.8 km · lake of the United States of America · Wikipedia - 04Maj. George Beecher Cook House
The Maj. George Beecher Cook House is a historic house located at 356 W. 21st St.
700 m · historic house in California, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Merced
- Airports
- Fresno Yosemite (FAT), 90 km · Mineta San Jose (SJC), 128 km · Oakland San Francisco Bay (OAK), 160 km
- Stations
- Merced Regional Airport, 3.2 km
- Fresno → Merced88 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · $7–10
- San Jose → Merced0 km · quickest by road, 4 min · $0
- Oakland → Merced167 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · $15–21
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Merced
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Merced. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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