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Redwood Shores

Redwood Shores is a waterfront community in Redwood City, California, along the western shore of San Francisco Bay on the San Francisco Peninsula in San Mateo County.

Redwood Shores
Redwood Shores · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Redwood Shores is a waterfront community in Redwood City, California, along the western shore of San Francisco Bay on the San Francisco Peninsula in San Mateo County. Redwood Shores is the home of several major technology companies, including Oracle Corporation, Electronic Arts, Nintendo, Zuora, Qualys, Crystal Dynamics and Shutterfly.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Redwood Shores

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.

  1. 01
    Hiller Aviation Museum

    The Hiller Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located at the San Carlos Airport in San Carlos, California, focused on Northern California aviation history, Hiller Aircraft and helicopter history.

    2.2 km · aerospace museum in San Carlos, California · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Notre Dame de Namur University

    Notre Dame de Namur University is a private Catholic university in Belmont, California, United States. It is the third oldest college in California and the first college in the state authorized to grant the baccalaureate degree to women.

    3.7 km · Private Catholic university in Belmont, California, United States · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ralston Hall

    Ralston Hall Mansion located in Belmont, California, was the country house of William Chapman Ralston, a San Francisco businessman, a founder of the Bank of California, and a financier of the Comstock Lode. It is an opulent Italianate Villa, modified with touches of Steamboat Gothic and Victorian details.

    3.7 km · historic house in Belmont, California · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Leo J. Ryan Memorial Park

    Leo J. Ryan Memorial Park is a recreational city park, located in Foster City, California and run by the city government and local citizens. Originally called "Central Park", the park was renamed in 1979 in honor and memory of Congressman Leo J. Ryan, who was assassinated in 1978 in Guyana on orders from Jim Jones.

    3.6 km · recreational city park located in Foster City, California, USA · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Redwood Shores

Airports
San Francisco (SFO), 15 km · Oakland San Francisco Bay (OAK), 21 km · Mineta San Jose (SJC), 34 km
Stations
San Carlos Airport, 2.2 km · Q4884314, 2.8 km · Q7413505, 2.8 km
  • Sacramento → Redwood Shores
    134 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · $14–19
  • Fresno → Redwood Shores
    236 km · quickest by road, 4h 26m · $23–31
  • Reno → Redwood Shores
    307 km · quickest by air, 5h 55m · $150–220
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Redwood Shores

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 Redwood Shores. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    Port Townsend and the Olympic PeninsulaUS

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,178 km
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  3. 03
    NanaimoCA

    11 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,301 km
  4. 04
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    10 ways of moving, 21 sources

    1,324 km
  5. 05
    Courtenay, Comox and the Comox ValleyCA

    10 ways of moving, 14 sources

    1,369 km

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Around it

Next door to Redwood Shores

Redwood Shores is 30 km from Oakland, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.