List of tourist attractions in Santa Clara Valley

This is a list of tourist attractions in and around Silicon Valley, it includes parts or most of Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, and Alameda County.

Circle of Palms, historical marker for California's first state capitol

Plaza de César Chávez

Arboreta and gardens

Hakone Gardens

• Arizona Cactus Garden, Stanford University
• Chinese Cultural Garden, San Jose
• Emma Prusch Farm Park, San Jose
• Filoli Estate, Woodside
• Gamble Gardens, Palo Alto^[1]
• Hakone Gardens, Saratoga
• Japanese Friendship Garden, at Kelley Park, San Jose
• Overfelt Gardens, East San Jose
• San Jose Municipal Rose Garden, downtown San Jose
• San Mateo Japanese Tea Garden, Central Park, San Mateo, designed by Nagao Sakurai.^[2]
• Stanford University Arboretum, Stanford University
• Villa Montalvo Arboretum, Saratoga

Cultural

Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph

Circle of Palms and SJ Museum of Art

New Museum Los Gatos

Art

This is a list of Silicon Valley art museums and art collectives/cooperatives.

• The Anderson Collection, at Stanford University, Stanford^[3]
• Allied Arts Guild, Menlo Park
• De Saisset Museum, at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara
• Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford
• The Lace Museum, Sunnyvale^[4]
• New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos
• Pacific Art League, Palo Alto^[5]
• Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto
• San Jose Museum of Art, downtown San Jose
• San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose
• The Foster Museum, Palo Alto
• Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara
• Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, California

Dance

• Ballet San Jose, downtown San Jose (closed 2018)
• sjDANCEco, downtown San Jose

Estate

• Emma Prusch Farm Park, San Jose
• Filoli Estate, Woodside
• Gamble Gardens, Palo Alto^[1]
• Rengstorff House, Mountain View
• Villa Montalvo, Saratoga
• Winchester Mystery House, West San Jose

Faith-based

• Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph, downtown San Jose
• Five Wounds Portuguese National Church, Little Portugal, San Jose
• Gurdwara Sahib of San Jose, East San Jose
• Stanford Memorial Church, at Stanford University

Historical

• Burlingame Museum of PEZ Memorabilia, Burlingame
• Circle of Palms Plaza, downtown San Jose
• De Anza Hotel, downtown San Jose
• Forbes Mill, Los Gatos
• Hangar One, Mountain View
• Hiller Aviation Museum, San Carlos
• History Park at Kelley Park, Willow Glen (south-central San Jose)
• Japanese American Museum of San Jose, San Jose
• Little Italy San Jose, San Jose^[6]
• Mexican Heritage Plaza, East San Jose
• Museum of American Heritage, Palo Alto
• New Almaden, Quicksilver Mining Museum
• New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos
• The HP Garage, Palo Alto
• Los Altos History Museum, Los Altos
• Peralta Adobe, downtown San Jose

  

  Winchester Mystery House

• Portuguese Historical Museum, East San Jose
• Viet Museum, East San Jose
• Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, downtown San Jose
• San Mateo County History Museum, downtown Redwood City
• San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, downtown San Jose
• Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum, Sunnyvale
• Winchester Mystery House, West San Jose

Music

• Choral Project, downtown San Jose
• Fox Theatre, Redwood City
• Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, downtown San Jose
• Opera San Jose, downtown San Jose
• Symphony Silicon Valley, downtown San Jose
• Vivace Youth Chorus of San Jose, San Jose

Theatre

• Broadway by the Bay, Redwood City
• City Lights Theater Company of San Jose, San Jose
• Hillbarn Theatre, Foster City
• Los Altos Stage Company, Los Altos
• Montgomery Theater, San Jose
• Palo Alto Players Theatre Company, Palo Alto^[7]
• Pear Theatre, Mountain View
• Portola Valley Theatre Conservatory, Portola Valley
• Ram's Head Theatrical Society, Stanford University
• San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, downtown San Jose
• San Jose Improv, downtown San Jose
• San Jose Repertory Theatre, downtown San Jose
• San Jose Stage Company, San Jose
• Sierra Repertory Theatre, San Jose
• Sunnyvale Community Players, Sunnyvale
• Tabard Theatre Company, San Jose
• TheatreWorks Theatre Company, Palo Alto and Mountain View

Children's Theatre

• Children's Musical Theater San Jose, San Jose
• Palo Alto Children's Theatre Company, Palo Alto
• Peninsula Youth Theatre, Mountain View
• Pied Piper Players, San Mateo
• Roberta Jones Junior Theatre, Santa Clara
• San Carlos Children's Theater, San Carlos
• Silicon Valley Children's Musical Theater, San Jose
• Willow Glen Children's Theatre, San Jose

Other

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, downtown San Jose
• San Jose City Hall, downtown San Jose
• San Jose Flea Market, Berryessa (northeast San Jose)

Event venues

SAP Center (formerly HP Pavilion) (SJ Arena)

San Jose Center for the Performing Arts

This is a list of larger event venues.

• PayPal Park, San Jose
• Buck Shaw Stadium, Santa Clara
• California Theatre, downtown San Jose
• City National Civic Events, San Jose
• Event Center Arena, downtown San Jose
• The Flint Center for the Performing Arts, Cupertino
• Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara
• Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto
• Montgomery Theater, San Jose
• San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, downtown San Jose
• San Jose Civic Auditorium, downtown San Jose
• San Jose Convention Center, downtown San Jose
• San Jose Municipal Stadium, downtown San Jose
• San Jose Repertory Theatre, downtown San Jose
• Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara
• SAP Center at San Jose, downtown San Jose
• Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View
• Spartan Stadium, downtown San Jose
• Stanford Stadium, Stanford

Events

SJ Jazz Festival

• BayCon, Santa Clara
• Christmas in the Park, downtown San Jose
• Cinequest Film Festival, multiple venues
• FanimeCon, downtown San Jose
• Los Altos Art and Wine Festival, Los Altos^[8]
• Mountain View Art and Wine Festival, Mountain View^[9]
• Palo Alto Festival of the Arts, Palo Alto^[10]
• San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, downtown San Jose
• San Jose Bike Party, monthly bicycle ride in San Jose area, different route each time
• San Jose Jazz Festival, downtown San Jose
• Stanford Jazz Festival, Stanford University

Parks and trails

Big Basin Redwoods State Park

Japanese Friendship Garden (Kelley Park)

Lake Cunningham

Vasona Park Lake

• Almaden Lake Park, South San Jose
• Almaden Quicksilver County Park, South San Jose
• Alum Rock Park, East San Jose
• Bay Area Ridge Trail, surrounds and crosses the valley
• Belgatos Park and connected Heintz, and Santa Rosa open space preserves, Los Gatos
• Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Santa Cruz Mountains
• Castle Rock State Park, Santa Cruz Mountains
• Coyote Creek Trail, San Jose to Morgan Hill
• Ed R. Levin County Park, Milpitas
• Fremont Older Open Space Preserve, Saratoga
• Grant Ranch Park, East San Jose/Mount Hamilton
• Guadalupe River Trail, downtown San Jose, Willow Glen and South San Jose
• Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Santa Cruz Mountains
• Kelley Park, Willow Glen (south-central San Jose)
• Lake Cunningham, East San Jose
• Los Alamitos Creek Trail, South San Jose
• Los Gatos Creek Trail, West San Jose, Campbell and Los Gatos
• Mission Peak, Fremont, California
• Plaza de César Chávez, downtown San Jose
• Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve, Santa Cruz Mountains
• Rosicrucian Park, downtown San Jose
• San Francisco Bay Trail, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose and Milpitas
• Sanborn Park, Saratoga and Santa Cruz Mountains
• Santa Teresa County Park, South San Jose
• Shoreline Park, Mountain View, Mountain View
• Stevens Creek Trail, Cupertino, Sunnyvale and Mountain View
• Uvas Canyon County Park, west of Morgan Hill
• Vasona Park, Los Gatos
• Villa Montalvo Arboretum, Saratoga

See additional parks, hiking trails, and open space preserves at: Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department, Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District

Science, technology and education

Computer History Museum

Googleplex

Stanford University

• Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, downtown San Jose
• Computer History Museum, Mountain View
• CuriOdyssey, Coyote Point Recreation Area, San Mateo
• DeAnza College Fujitsu Planetarium, Cupertino
• EcoCenter, Palo Alto Baylands, Palo Alto^[11]
• Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, San Jose
• Museum of American Heritage, Palo Alto
• NASA Ames Exploration Center, Mountain View
• Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo, Palo Alto
• San Jose electric light tower (model, in History Park at Kelley Park, San Jose)
• San Jose State University, downtown San Jose
• Santa Clara University, Santa Clara
• Stanford University, Stanford
• The Tech Interactive, formerly The Tech Museum of Innovation, downtown San Jose

Technology campuses

• Apple Park, Cupertino
• Facebook headquarters, Menlo Park
• Googleplex, Mountain View
• Intel Museum, Intel campus, Santa Clara

Shopping

• Eastridge Center, East San Jose
• Great Mall of the Bay Area, Milpitas
• Hillsdale Shopping Center, San Mateo
• Pruneyard Shopping Center, Campbell
• San Antonio Shopping Center, Mountain View
• Santana Row, West San Jose
• Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto
• Westfield Oakridge, South San Jose
• Westfield Valley Fair, West San Jose
• Westgate Mall, West San Jose

Theme parks and tours

Great America

• Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad, Los Gatos
• California's Great America, Santa Clara (formerly "Paramount's Great America")
• Gilroy Gardens, Gilroy (formerly "Bonfante Gardens")
• Happy Hollow Park & Zoo, Willow Glen (south-central San Jose)
• CaliBunga Waterpark, East San Jose
• Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad, Santa Cruz Mountains

Vineyards and wineries

Vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains

• Byington Vineyard, Los Gatos
• David Bruce Winery, Los Gatos
• J. Lohr Vineyards and Wines, downtown San Jose
• Mountain Winery, Saratoga
• Picchetti Brothers Winery, Cupertino
• Rabbits Foot Meadery, Sunnyvale
• Savannah-Chanelle Vineyards, Saratoga

See also

• List of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Santa Clara County, California
• Silicon Valley