标 题: 【推荐】湾区附近看红叶的地方

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标  题: 【推荐】湾区附近看红叶的地方
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San Jose

The AIDS Memorial Grove near the Children's Discovery 
Museum offers an array of red, orange and yellow 
Chinese pistaches.

Naglee Park, just off San Fernando Street near San Jose 
State University, has a raywood ash, a tree distinctive 
for its purple-red colors. The neighborhood surrounding 
Monroe and Hedding streets turns leafy gold.

There is a golden canopy of fruitless mulberry trees 
over the sidewalks on San Jose State's quad. On San 
Fernando Street near Fourth Street, look for the 
prehistoric ginkgo tree.

On the edge of St. James Park, there is a magnificent 
zelkova tree. Its leaves will turn rusty-red and yellow. 
Near Second Street, this park offers rust-colored 
sycamores. Near the intersection of North First and 
St. John streets are two bur oaks, bearing the biggest 
acorn of any American oak. (The tree gets its name 
from the fringe of bristles around the cup of the bur 
oak acorn.)

Local event you might try: a tree walk with an Our 
City Forest arborist on 2-4 p.m. Oct. 30 at St. James Park.


Los Altos 

In 1954, 48 red Chinese pistache trees were donated to 
the city during a 1954 "Street Tree Planting Bee" by 
the Furuichi family, founders of Los Altos Nursery. 

Now well established, these trees transform downtown 
Los Altos in the autumn, as they develop pink berries 
and their leaves turn vivid oranges and reds. They 
line Main and Second streets. 


Palo Alto 

Greenwood and Ramona streets (near Addison and Lincoln) 
offer a spectacular gold canopy and carpet of mature 
maidenhair ginkgos. There are also ginkgos in front 
of Genencor, at 925 Page Mill Road. 

On the old walls of the Laning Chateau at 345 Forest 
Ave., Boston ivy turns a vibrant orange-yellow. Around 
the corner, there's a red dawn redwood at the post 
office at 380 Hamilton Ave. 

Gamble Gardens is graced by sour gums. (Sweet gums, 
in contrast, can be seen along Page Mill Road between 
El Camino Real and Foothill Expressway -- as well as 
downtown's Guinda Street and others.) 

Look for the red oak at Lucie Stern Community Center's 
front lawn. A different oak, called a shumard oak, can 
be seen near Porter Drive and Page Mill Road; its leaves, 
which turn late, are brown to red. 

Local event you might try: a tree walk with an arborist 
on Nov. 13, 10 a.m.-noon in the Barron Park neighborhood, 
at Cornelis Bol Park (intersection of Laguna Avenue and 
Laguna Court). 


Parks and preserves 

"Fall colors in preserves tend to be more subtle than big 
and showy," says Leigh Ann Gessner of the Midpeninsula 
Regional Open Space District. "But there are some good 
trails where fall colors can be found." 

While hiking, notice the contrast between dark redwoods 
and yellow big-leaf maples -- with an accent of bright 
red poison oak vines -- on these trails: 

-- Purisima Creek Trail in Purisima Creek Redwoods Open 
Space Preserve. 

-- Stevens Creek Nature Trail in the Monte Bello Open 
Space Preserve, which offers a Stevens Creek in October 
Hike on Oct. 24 at 11 a.m. 

-- Saratoga Gap Trail in the Saratoga Gap Open Space 
Preserve. It will have a Fall Hike of the Gap and Ridge 
on Nov. 18 at 10 a.m. 

-- Polly Geraci Trail in Pulgas Ridge Open Space Preserve, 
thick with red poison oak. 

-- The Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve has a series of 
events coming up related to the autumn changes: a Fall 
Edibles Hike on Sunday at 10 a.m., a Natural Communities 
in the Fall hike on Oct. 23 at 10 a.m. and a Color in 
Nature Hike on Oct. 23 at 1 p.m. 

In San Mateo County, Woodside's Huddart Park offers lots 
of big-leaf maples along Richards Road trail, following 
West Union Creek. At Edgewood County Park and Preserve, 
also in Woodside, the Sylvan Loop Trail takes you from 
the parking lot to the colorful Ridgeview Loop Trial. 


Outside the Bay Area 

-- In the Gold Country, the Nevada City-Grass Valley area 
has become known as one of California's best areas to view 
autumn foliage. The best colors are located in the 
old-fashioned Victorian neighborhoods surrounding the 
downtown historic districts. 

Most vivid are the century-old red maple trees planted 
by early settlers, homesick for New England. Church 
steeples add to the Vermont-like mood. Outside of Grass 
Valley, maples and liquidambars dot the 800-acre Empire 
Mine State Historic Park. And off Highway 49 near Sierra 
City, Gold Lake Road offers a 20-mile-long tour of 
deep-gold aspens and willows. 

-- Yosemite National Park offers lots of trees. With red 
dogwoods and orange oaks, the best spot for leaf-peeping 
is along Highways 41 and 120. 

-- In the Tahoe Basin, one lovely drive is along 
Highway 89 -- from Highway 50 near Lake Tahoe to the 
junction with Highway 88, in the middle of Hope Valley, 
where aspen, willows and cottonwood are plentiful. Also 
pretty is Highway 88 from Woodfords to Silver Lake, over 
Carson Pass. A little southeast of Lake Tahoe, you can 
see pretty aspens on Highway 89 near Markleeville and 
over Monitor Pass to Highway 395. 

-- Along the eastern side of the Sierra, hues of gold 
mixed with some red are showing in the higher elevations 
-- along Bishop Creek in the upper reaches of Bishop 
Canyon, they're reaching their peak now. But colors are 
late, appearing through the end of the month, along the 
Owens Valley floor. One favorite sight: the aspens that 
line the Owens River between Mono Lake and the town of Bishop.