Hats off, or bicycle helmets off, to the The City of Mountain View! The City Council and staff should be congratulated for their work on making the Stevens Creek Trail a reality. Three of us rode our bikes from our home to the trail head at El Camino Real then onto Shoreline Park at San Francisco Bay. We stopped for lunch and then headed back home. The trail provides users multiple experiences through woodlands, tidal marshes and neighborhood parks. Stevens Creek is named after Captain Elisha Stephens one of the early settlers of Cupertino.
My favorite story about Stephens is that he moved West to get away from the growing population in the Mid-West. However, soon others had the same idea. When a neighbor moved to within 8 miles of Stephens ranch, he said the place was getting too crowded. So he headed north into an unpopulated area of California.
The creek that was named after Stevens begins on the flanks of Black Mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and flows through Stevens Canyon and the cities of Cupertino, Los Altos, Sunnyvale and Mountain View on its way to the San Francisco Bay. The total length of Stevens Creek is more than 20 miles.
The Friends of Stevens Creek Trail is a local community group whose goal is to raise community awareness and support for the completion of a trail in the Stevens Creek Corridor. You can visit their website to get more information on the trail: www.stevenscreek trail.org Thanks to the City of Mountain View and the Friends of the trail for providing such a benefit to the larger community.
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