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87-615: Adobe Creek is the name of several streams: Rivers [ edit ] United States [ edit ] California Adobe Creek (Santa Clara County, California) , a tributary of San Francisco Bay in Santa Clara County Adobe Creek (Sonoma County, California) , a tributary of the Petaluma River in Sonoma County Adobe Creek (Lake County, California) ,

174-677: A cool, wooded canyon. Two routes connect Hidden Villa to the Black Mountain Trail at Ewing Hill at 1,200 feet (370 m) of elevation, the Hostel Trail (1.3 miles) or the Creek Trail (1 mile) connecting to the Ewing Trail (0.3 miles). The Black Mountain Trail then continues up a strenuous 3 miles (4.8 km) to the 2,800-foot (850 m) summit of Black Mountain . Another "Adobe Creek Trail"

261-631: A farmer who lived along the stream. His home was located on Moody Creek (which flows down along Central Drive and then Moody Court to its confluence with Adobe Creek). Moody built Moody Road in 1867. The next Adobe Creek tributary is 2.0-mile-long (3.2 km) Purisima Creek (historically known as Purissima Creek and originating between Altamont Road and Dezahara Way and joining Adobe Creek at Deepwater Lane and Bay Tree Lane) and Robleda Creek (along Robleda Road) in Los Altos Hills. Thence, Adobe Creek departs mountainous and hilly terrain and enters

348-422: A few decades when it was discovered that orchards and vineyards could thrive here. Such agriculture of course used more water. Local land was cut progressively into smaller holdings, until most of it was subdivided as the population increased. This meant more and more wells, including large ones dug along Adobe Creek by early water companies to serve the little town of Los Altos. The water table inevitably shrank as

435-405: A few feet from kitchen doors". The reaches upstream from Hidden Villa have been judged excellent trout spawning habitat. Josephine Duveneck wrote, "Before the era of concrete, fish used to swim up to spawn and native trout lured many a small boy to seek out the deeper pools carrying his home-made fishing pole and can of worms." Local historian Florence Fava also reported that "the creeks which lace

522-660: A former airfield, has undergone extensive restoration and is now a popular recreational area. It borders on the San Francisco Marina in the east and on the Golden Gate Bridge in the west. The park has a large inventory of approximately 800 buildings, many of them historical. By 2004, about 50% of the buildings on park grounds had been restored and partially remodeled. The Presidio Trust has contracted commercial real estate management companies to help attract and retain residential and commercial tenants. The total capacity

609-559: A gathering place for discussion, reflection, and incubation of social reform. Over the following decades, the Duvenecks also established the first Hostel on the Pacific Coast (1937), the first multiracial summer camp (1945), and Hidden Villa's Environmental Education Program (1970), all on the creek's upper reaches. Adobe Creek Lodge , an English country-style mansion, was built by Consolidated Chemicals vice-president Milton Haas in 1935. It

696-422: A habitat for flora and fauna, previously not in the site's evidence. It also restored a historic grass airfield that became a culturally significant military airfield between 1919 and 1936. The park at Crissy Field expanded and widened the recreational opportunities of the existing 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -mile (2.4 km) San Francisco shore to a broader number of Presidio residents and visitors. A major component of

783-649: A high-tech Presidio museum and a 7-acre (2.8 ha) "Great Lawn" that is now open to the public. In 2007, Donald Fisher , founder of the Gap clothing stores and former board member of the Presidio Trust, announced a plan to build a 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m ) museum tentatively named the Contemporary Art Museum of the Presidio, to house his art collection. Due to opposition, Fisher withdrew his plans to build

870-599: A local landmark in 1981 and until recently it housed the Florence Fava collection of Coastanoan or Ohlone Indian artifacts from a creekside archeological excavation in Los Altos Hills (now moved to the Los Altos History House). On June 16, 2010, the Los Altos City Council finalized the purchase of 10,000 square feet (930 m ) of creekside property from Delbert and Marlene Beumer, who wanted to provide

957-586: A loop around both sides of the Palo Alto Flood Basin is known as the Adobe Creek Loop Trail and is easily accessed from a parking lot at the northern terminus of San Antonio Road, just north of U.S. Highway 101. A scenic, easy walking or mountain biking trail, it also provides outstanding birdwatching and in winter is known for its flock of American white pelicans ( Pelecanus erythrorhynchos ). The Adobe Creek Loop Trail begins by heading north along

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1044-495: A result, and alarms about this development appeared, at least as early as the 1920s. In the early 1930s, the Los Altos News reported that the water table, which stood at 120 feet in 1898, was now down to 335 feet. The Trust for Hidden Villa is a nonprofit educational organization founded by Frank and Josephine Duveneck, who purchased most of the land comprising the upper Adobe Creek watershed in 1924. They opened Hidden Villa as

1131-493: A safe pathway connecting Shoup Park and Redwood Grove . Riparian vegetation was described in the 1989 Adobe Creek Restoration Plan . Existing native riparian trees include willows ( Salix species), California sycamore ( Platanus racemosa ) in Redwood Grove and near the ranch manager's house at Hidden Villa, white alder ( Alnus rhombifolia ) (one large specimen in Redwood Grove – see photo), cottonwood ( Populus ) at

1218-510: A salt pond, like the Cargill salt ponds to the east of it, but it is open to tidal flow. Pumps and gates regulate the flow through the slough. Water from the slough gets pumped into Shoreline Lake, which then drains into Permanente Creek . The slough was named after George Charleston, who came from Scotland in 1852 and purchased 160 acres (0.65 km ) of marshland in this area. Charleston Road and Charleston Court also bear his name. Continuing north,

1305-678: A significant agreement with Lucasfilm to build a new facility called the Letterman Digital Arts Center (LDAC), which is now Lucasfilm's corporate headquarters. The site replaced portions of what was the Letterman Hospital. George Lucas won the development rights for 15 acres (6.1 ha) of the Presidio, in June 1999, after beating out several rival plans, including a leading proposal by the Shorenstein Company. LDAC replaced

1392-548: A silted-in mud flat and marsh which provides excellent birding. The Adobe Creek Loop Trail then heads back southwest with Matadero Creek on the left and Byxbee Park (former landfill) on the right, eventually connecting to the Bay Trail at East Bayshore Road. Heading east along East Bayshore Road, turn immediately left after crossing over Adobe Creek to return on the Bay Trail to the San Antonio Road parking lot. Many locals enjoy

1479-572: A tributary of Clear Lake (California) Colorado Adobe Creek (Arkansas River tributary) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adobe_Creek&oldid=1214204805 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1566-724: Is a park and former U.S. Army post on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco , California , and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area . It had been a fortified location since September 17, 1776, when New Spain established the presidio to gain a foothold in Alta California and the San Francisco Bay . It passed to Mexico in 1820, which in turn passed to

1653-597: Is also consistent with Eleanor Cranston Fowle Cameron's (the sister of Senator Alan Cranston was born in 1909 and they lived on Cypress Court, north of West Edith Avenue in Los Altos Hills) account that in her youth the creek was perennial and that her "father fished the steelhead that ran up from the Bay to the pool below the waterfall". Local lumberman, Herbert Bickell, reported catching steelhead year-round in Adobe Creek until

1740-674: Is closed. Four species of native fishes have been collected from Adobe Creek in 2011: California roach ( Lavinia symmetricus ), Sacramento sucker ( Catostomus occidentalis occidentalis ), three-spined stickleback ( Gasterosteus aculeatus ), and prickly sculpin ( Cottus asper ). Leidy reported the fish still inhabiting the Adobe Creek's lowest reach in 2007 – native California roach, Sacramento sucker, three-spined stickleback, and non-native common carp ( Cyprinus carpio ), rainwater killifish ( Lucania parva ), and western mosquitofish ( Gambusia affinis ). A 2011 fish survey utilizing electrofishing showed only native fish above El Camino Real:

1827-693: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Adobe Creek (Santa Clara County, California) The Ohlone people were the original inhabitants of Adobe Creek. A large shell mound which once had a group of Indian huts was found near Adobe Creek in Palo Alto. Evidence of a smaller settlement within Los Altos was uncovered in 1971, when an Ohlone burial ground with skeletons—one with ceremonial beads—was uncovered by new construction along Adobe Creek near O'Keefe Lane. The site had other artifacts, and an archeological dig

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1914-503: Is estimated at 5,000 residents when all buildings have been rehabilitated. Among the Presidio's residents is The Bay School of San Francisco, a private, coeducational college preparatory school located in the central Main Post area. Others include The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation , Tides Foundation , the Arion Press , Sports Basement Presidio, and The Walt Disney Family Museum , a museum in

2001-462: Is estimated that there may be at least four coyote families living in the park. The visitor centers are operated by the National Park Service : Crissy Field Center (former Air Service / Air Corps / Army Air Forces airfield) is an urban environmental education center with programs for schools, public workshops, after-school programs, summer camps, and more. The center is operated by

2088-656: Is found in the Monte Bello Open Space Preserve , which is an easy to moderate 1.4 mile hike that begins on Montebello Road about 0.1 miles east of Page Mill Road and rejoins Montebello Road after traversing the headwaters of the West Fork Adobe Creek as well as a large meadow with views of the South Bay. Presidio of San Francisco The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or The Royal Fortress of Saint Francis )

2175-513: Is joined by another minor fork originating in Esther Clark Park . After crossing Foothill Expressway it is buried in an underground pipe just west of Gunn High School but sees daylight where the creek crosses Bol Park Bike Path in a small, man-made flood control basin, then at Laguna Avenue again enters an underground pipe running beneath Los Robles Avenue to El Camino Real. Barron Creek has been greatly modified for flood control purposes;

2262-582: Is mostly freshwater. After a rainstorm the tidegate is kept closed, however this is precisely when steelhead trout in-migrations should occur. In 2002 a small opening was cut in the trash grate on the tidal gate to permit fish passage but local fisherman in the Flood Basin no longer report catching steelhead trout in recent years. From November 16 to 20, 2002, approximately 100 striped bass ( Morone saxatilis ), 5 bat rays ( Myliobatis californica ) and 2 leopard sharks ( Triakis semifasciata ) were found dead in

2349-702: Is the San Francisco National Cemetery . Among the military personnel interred there are General Frederick Funston , hero of the Spanish–American War, Philippine–American War , and commanding officer of the Presidio at the time of the 1906 earthquake ; and General Irvin McDowell , a Union Army commander who lost the First Battle of Bull Run . The Marine Hospital operated a cemetery for merchant seamen approximately 100–250 yards (91–229 m) from

2436-564: Is the last historical record of this salmonid ascending Adobe Creek to spawn upstream of El Camino Real. Steelhead spawning runs were partially blocked by construction of the tidal gate in the Palo Alto Flood Basin at the mouth of Adobe Creek in 1957. This barrier was only partial, as according to the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG), steelhead were caught by local fishermen during 1985, 1986 and 1987 in Mayfield Slough at

2523-548: The Gaspar de Portolà and the Juan Bautista de Anza Expeditions. Her uniquely constructed wood-framed, rammed-earth and adobe brick house, believed to have been built by American sailors who had deserted, is located at 4155 Old Adobe Road on the border between Palo Alto and Los Altos Hills, and is marked by a historical marker at the corner of Old Adobe Road and Old Trace Lane. Designated a California State Historical Landmark in 1954,

2610-469: The Golden Gate Bridge , San Francisco Bay, and the Pacific Ocean . It was recognized as a California Historical Landmark in 1933 and as a National Historic Landmark in 1962. The Presidio was originally a Spanish fort sited by Juan Bautista de Anza on March 28, 1776, built by a party led by José Joaquín Moraga later that year. The limestone used to build the presidio was mined by Ohlones at

2697-496: The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and overlooks a restored tidal marsh . The facilities include interactive environmental exhibits, a media lab, a resource library, an art workshop, a science lab, a gathering room, a teaching kitchen, a café, and a bookstore. The landscape of Crissy Field was designed by George Hargreaves . The project restored a naturally functioning and sustaining tidal wetland as

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2784-575: The Presidio of San Francisco who had become alfarez (officer in command) in 1837. He built a large square adobe, which lasted well into the twentieth century as a crumbling ruin long thought of as a fortification. The site today is on a hill on the southeast side of El Monte Avenue near Summerhill Avenue in Los Altos, California , most of which is located on the territory of the Rancho. The upper creek originates in

2871-575: The Rockaway Quarry . In 1783, the Presidio's garrison numbered only 33 men. Upon Mexican independence from Spain in 1821, it was briefly operated as a Mexican fortification. The Presidio was seized by the U.S. military at the start of the Mexican–American War in 1846. It was officially reopened by the Americans in 1848 and became home to several army headquarters and units, the last being

2958-677: The United States 6th Army . Several famous U.S. generals, such as William Tecumseh Sherman , George Henry Thomas , and John J. Pershing , made their homes here. During its long history, the Presidio was involved in most of America's military engagements in the Pacific Rim . Importantly, it was the assembly point for army forces that invaded the Philippines during the Spanish–American War , America's first significant military engagement in

3045-579: The United States Congress created the Presidio Trust to oversee and manage the interior 80% of the park's lands, with the National Park Service managing the coastal 20%. In a first-of-its-kind structure, Congress mandated that the Presidio Trust make the Presidio financially self-sufficient by 2013. The Presidio achieved the goal in 2005, eight years ahead of the deadline. The park has many wooded areas, hills, and scenic vistas overlooking

3132-594: The (Hidden Villa) property and join Adobe Creek were originally full of fish". According to old-timer accounts, locations below Hidden Villa that held spawning steelhead included the large cement pieces downstream from the Foothill Junior College paint shop outflow and cut banks below Interstate 280, in the perennial reaches of Adobe Creek stretching downstream to just above Redwood Grove. A 27-inch steelhead trout (see main photo) caught by boys in June, 1956 about two blocks from Van Buren Avenue (now Van Buren Street)

3219-478: The 160-year-old Juana Briones home was scheduled for demolition in 2007 because of damage to it by the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989. In 2009, it still stands and has been recently documented with a Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). After 1831, Mexican rancho owners would logically erect their dwellings on or very near creeks. Locally, Juan Prado's adobe was near Adobe Creek & Juanita Briones' adobe

3306-539: The Adobe Creek watershed, as well as non-native California redwoods . Further downstream, the Palo Alto/Los Altos bike path traverses the creek, running along the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct right of way. Several sections of Adobe Creek have been re-aligned, including the trapezoidal concrete drainage channel between El Camino Real and U.S. Highway 101 (the portion between Alma Street and El Camino Real

3393-488: The Adobe Lane subdivision before passing under Moody Road and returning to the mainstem at the southeast corner of Foothill College . Before passing under Highway 101, Adobe Creek is joined by Barron Creek just upstream of Highway 101. Barron Creek was alternatively known as Dry Creek , and appears as a tributary of Adobe Creek in the 1862 Allardt Map, although in the 1899 Topo Map it was tributary to Matadero Creek , and

3480-568: The City of Los Altos and the Town of Los Altos Hills. The $ 7.2 million project improved flood conveyance capacity in Reach 5, and also enhanced the creek ecosystem by removing the existing concrete banks and bottom, repairing and stabilizing the eroded banks using minimal hardscape, removing many non-native trees, and establishing a riparian area along 700 feet (210 m) of bank using mostly shrubs and trees native to

3567-631: The Duveneck's main house at Hidden Villa. The North Fork Adobe Creek is also known locally as Bunny Creek . The upper watershed of Adobe Creek is completely protected by Hidden Villa and the Mid-Peninsula Regional Open Space District . Below the confluences of the "three forks", Adobe Creek is joined by three seasonal creeks in Los Altos Hills. The first is 1.3-mile-long (2.1 km) Moody Creek (known locally as Silver Creek ) and named for George Washington Moody (1824–1909),

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3654-538: The Flood Control Basin in both Adobe and Matadero Creeks within one mile of the tidegate. The fishkill was attributed to the first large rainstorm washing a large amount of leaf litter into the basin, leading to eutrophication and low dissolved oxygen. This is supported by the fact that the dead fish were all large (requiring more oxygen) at 2 to 4 feet long and the mouths and gills of the bass were fully extended open. The San Francisco Bay Trail , which passes in

3741-622: The Francemont Avenue bridge and along the Adobe Creek Trail at Hidden Villa no fish were found. The Palo Alto Flood Basin was constructed in 1956 in order to prevent a repeat of the floods of 1955, when a high tide prevented the escape of heavy runoff from Matadero, Adobe, and Barron Creeks into the San Francisco Bay. The trapped runoff waters overflowed upstream creek banks and caused severe flooding in Palo Alto. In order to control

3828-542: The Halsey family from a location on Summit Road in the Santa Cruz Mountains and replaced the native willows. At Manresa Bridge at the east edge of Redwood Grove one can see the native red willow ( Salix laevigata ) and arroyo willow ( Salix lasiolepis ) trees. The historic Halsey House, built in the late 1920s by Theodore and Emma Halsey, is a good example of Spanish Revival architecture. The city designated Halsey House

3915-618: The Presidio's park attractions is the Presidio Tunnel Tops, which has created a 14-acre park (5.7 ha) on top of the tunneled portions of Doyle Drive. The park contains several meadows and walking trails, along with viewpoints for major landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge. Negotiations between Caltrans , the San Francisco County Transportation Authority , and the Presidio Trust to finalize

4002-531: The United States in 1848. As part of a military reduction program under the Base Realignment and Closure ( BRAC ) process from 1988, Congress voted to end the Presidio's status as an active military installation of the U.S. Army . On October 1, 1994, it was transferred to the National Park Service , ending 219 years of military use and beginning its next phase of mixed commercial and public use. In 1996,

4089-417: The basin, what was once tidal saltwater marsh is now predominantly freshwater marsh. Adobe Creek is joined by Matadero Creek at the north end of Mayfield Slough, where it historically joined with San Francisquito Creek before the latter was diverted north. Mayfield Slough has a tidal gate through which fresh water passes to San Francisco Bay, and some salt water is permitted to return to Mayfield Slough when

4176-798: The community of Los Altos. The Paul Shoup House on Adobe Creek is the first property in Los Altos to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Adobe Creek drains about 11 square miles (28 km ), arising at 2,600 feet (790 m) on the northeastern flank of Black Mountain in Los Altos Hills, California . Adobe Creek was once a perennial stream , as evidenced by historical presence of steelhead trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ). Trout young spend their first year in fresh water and obviously cannot survive in streams that run dry seasonally. Historically, lawsuits were filed to prevent diversion of creek water for irrigation because they caused

4263-876: The confluence of Matadero and Adobe Creeks; and at least six steelhead were noted passing the tidal gates at Mayfield Slough in the Palo Alto Flood Basin in April 1987. In 1959, steelhead trout spawning runs were completely blocked by another flood control project on Adobe Creek, when the Santa Clara Valley Water District transformed the natural stream channel into a concrete trapezoidal chute with eight foot drop and dysfunctional fish ladder below El Camino Real. The 2.4 miles (3.9 km) long concrete trapezoidal channel structure from El Camino Real northward to Highway 101 stops fish with thin sheets of rapid horizontal flow during winter. Today there are additional upstream barriers to fish passage, including drop structures below

4350-560: The creek bed downstream from El Camino Real is a concrete trapezoidal channel. After passing under Highway 101, Adobe Creek enters the Palo Alto Flood Basin just west of a levee at the end of San Antonio Road. This levee separates Charleston Slough on the east from Mayfield Slough on the west and is also the eastern border of the Palo Alto Baylands . The Flood Basin is maintained a couple feet below sea level in order to absorb floodwaters from Adobe Creek and Matadero Creek . By lowering

4437-460: The creek to run "dry certain seasons of the year". A 1919 lawsuit against upstream creek diversion for "alfalfa fields" and "hog wallows" reads: "From time immemorial...the waters of Adobe Creek have flowed into, over upon and through the lands...from Hidden Villa high in the hills, past the wonderful home gardens of Los Altos to the Santa Clara Valley and on to the sea...Charles K. Field mourns

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4524-755: The creek's perennial sections are above Hidden Villa and between Foothill Expressway and Interstate 280 above the Manresa Way bridge. Adobe Creek's upper tributaries are, in order, the Middle Fork Adobe Creek , then immediately the West Fork Adobe Creek (the West Fork is known locally as Letcher Creek ). Next the North Fork Adobe Creek (originating on Page Mill Road near "Shotgun Bend" at an elevation over 1500 feet) joins Adobe Creek by

4611-418: The culverts under Interstate 280 and Foothill Expressway. Additional barriers occur at the O'Keefe Lane and Hidden Villa bridges, and the creek suffers from significant bank erosion, failing channel stabilization structures, and sedimentation. Finally, the trash rack at the tidal gate at the mouth of Mayfield Slough in the Palo Alto Flood Basin continues as an intermittent complete barrier to fish passage when it

4698-421: The first of a series of sculptures in the Presidio, the Spire . It is 100 feet (30 m) tall and located near the Arguello Gate. It represents the tree replanting effort that has been underway at the Presidio. Spire was followed by Wood Line in 2011, Tree Fall in 2013, and Earth Wall in 2014. In 2010, a trampoline park called House of Air was built using an old aircraft hangar. As of 2023, it

4785-614: The first trout hatcheries in California did not propagate any trout until the 1870s, and much of their production was shipped to hatcheries out of state. A physical specimen was collected in 1893 by Wilbur Wilson Thoburn, Stanford University Professor of Bionomics , and is preserved in the California Academy of Sciences collection. In 1898 John Otterbein Snyder , ichthyologist and Stanford Professor of Zoology, also collected steelhead trout specimens in San Antonio Creek (now Adobe Creek). A 1909 land office brochure promoted Los Altos for its "never-failing mountain trout stream, trout caught

4872-466: The flow of water into the flood basin, a tidegate was placed at the confluence of Adobe Creek, Matadero Creek, and the San Francisco Bay, so that the flood basin could be maintained at approximately 2 feet below sea level, creating room to absorb floodwaters. The tidegate consists of several weirs and one operator-controlled sluice gate that enables tidal flows into the basin in order to improve water quality and for mosquito control. Three agencies oversee

4959-483: The flows into the old Adobe Creek channel. In 1975, an 8-foot pipe bypass intended to prevent flooding of properties along Adobe Creek was constructed starting near the intersection of Moody and El Monte Roads (on the Foothill College Campus) going upstream approximately 2,200 feet, ending just upstream of Tepa Way. The original creek channel is now a secondary water "bypass channel" that bears high winter water flows from Adobe Creek and meanders through several properties in

5046-405: The former Lucasfilm headquarters in San Rafael . The $ 300 million development includes nearly 900,000 square feet (84,000 m ) of office space and a 150,000-square-foot (14,000 m ) underground parking garage with a capacity of 2,500 employees. Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic , Lucas Licensing, and Lucas Online divisions reside at the site. George Lucas's proposal included plans for

5133-438: The historic Rancho La Purisima Concepcion , which was granted by Governor Alvarado in 1840 to Jose Gorgonio, an Indian living at Mission Santa Clara . Gorgonio moved to the west bank of Adobe Creek near Fremont Avenue in Los Altos Hills. Much of the town of Los Altos Hills, California was located on this Rancho. In 1844 Rancho La Purisima Concepcion was sold to Juana Briones de Miranda , whose family members had accompanied both

5220-458: The hospital property. Based on city municipal records, historians estimate that the cemetery was used from 1885 to 1912. As part of the "Trails Forever" initiative, the Parks Conservancy, the National Park Service, and the Presidio Trust partnered to build a walking trail along the south side of the site featuring interpretive signage about its history. The Presidio was the home of the Western Defense Command headquarters during World War II . It

5307-402: The levee between Adobe Creek and the Charleston Slough out to the confluence of Adobe Creek and Matadero Creek. As one heads north on the levee, Charleston Slough is on the right and Adobe Creek is on the left. The Charleston Slough is a rich salt marsh and littoral zone , providing feeding areas for a variety of shorebirds and other estuarine wildlife. At low tide Charleston Slough looks like

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5394-410: The loss of the song of the brook that made his garden with its rockery an enchanted spot; Shoup's children can no longer wade in the stream, because there is no stream to wade in; acres and acres of McCutchen's rhododendrons are now languishing and dying with unsatisfied thirst." This written record confirms oral histories taken by local historian Don McDonald that Adobe Creek used to flow year-round. It

5481-558: The memory of Walt Disney. Many various commercial enterprises also lease buildings on the Presidio. The Thoreau Center for Sustainability preserved sections of the Letterman Army Hospital . The Presidio of San Francisco is the only site in a national recreation area with an extensive residential leasing program. The Presidio has four creeks that park stewards and volunteers are restoring to expand their riparian habitats' former extents. The creeks are Lobos and Dragonfly creeks, El Polin Spring , and Coyote Gulch . The Trust entered

5568-619: The mid-1950s when the creek's flows became intermittent behind his home on Van Buren Street. On March 1, 1973, the State Water Resources Board (SWRB is now the California Department of Water Resources ) granted water rights to the Purissima Hills Water District to withdraw 2.0 cubic feet per second (cfs) from the perennial reach where the SWRB had documented flows of 3.0 cfs on August 12, 1970, despite protestations by Robert and Mary Stutz who had rights to withdraw 0.005 cfs at Elena and Moody Roads, and Roy and Penny Lave who had rights to withdraw 0.008 cfs near Manresa Way and University Avenue. Today

5655-436: The museum in the Presidio and instead donated the art to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art before he died in 2009. As the Doyle Drive viaduct was deemed seismically unsafe and obsolete, construction started on the demolition of Doyle Drive in 2008 to replace the structure with a flat, broad-lane highway with a tunnel through the bluffs above Crissy Field , called the Presidio Parkway . The project cost $ 1 billion and

5742-416: The natural setting of a short walk through Redwood Grove, of which portions are on an elevated wooden boardwalk. In 1986 the city of Los Altos was granted an open space easement on the south bank of Adobe Creek and developed a trail from the south end of Redwood Grove to the Manresa Lane Bridge. Hidden Villa is the starting point for the relatively gentle Adobe Creek Trail, an easy two mile hike upstream along

5829-427: The need to maximize income by leasing historic buildings and permitting public use despite most structures being rented privately. Further differences have arisen from the divergent needs to preserve the integrity of the National Historic Landmark District in the face of new construction, competing pressures for natural habitat restoration, and requirements for commercial purposes that impede public access. Crissy Field,

5916-588: The other to San Francisquito Creek just before entering San Francisco Bay. The creek flows through Redwood Grove , a 5.9-acre (24,000 m ) nature preserve off University Avenue in Los Altos purchased by the city in 1974. In October, 2009 Los Altos contracted with Acterra to remove non-native plants and revitalize the redwood, oak woodland, riparian and grassland ecosystems by installing native plants, improving soil conditions, and creating habitat for wildlife such as bird houses and native bee boxes. The coast redwoods ( Sequoia sempervirens ) were transplanted by

6003-459: The park in partnership with the National Park Service. The trust has jurisdiction over the interior of 80 percent of the Presidio, including nearly all its historic structures. The National Park Service manages coastal areas. Primary law enforcement throughout the Presidio is the jurisdiction of the United States Park Police . One of the main objectives of the Presidio Trust's program was achieving financial self-sufficiency by fiscal year 2013, which

6090-461: The perennial reach of Adobe Creek between Interstate 280 and Foothill Expressway . On the 1862 Allardt Map the upper creek is called Arroyo San Antonio ( San Antonio Creek ) and the lower creek is called Arroyo de las Yeguas ( Yeguas Creek ). Yeguas is Spanish for "mare", and the Mission Santa Clara named it that because they built a corral for mares along the creek's banks near the Bay. Juan Prado Mesa renamed it San Antonio Creek when he

6177-581: The reach above Redwood Grove and the Manresa Lane bridge in Los Altos included California roach, Sacramento sucker and three-spined stickleback – an assemblage that generally includes steelhead trout in other Bay Area streams. Further upstream, the diversity of the fish assemblage steadily diminishes due to passage barriers and reduced stream flows from diversions and wells: at Moody Road just above Foothill College, only California roach and three-spined stickleback were collected, at Rhus Ridge bridge in Los Altos Hills only three-spined stickleback were collected, and at

6264-577: The region. Beginning in the 1890s, the Presidio was home to the Letterman Army Medical Center (LAMC), named in 1911 for Jonathan Letterman , the medical director of the Civil War –era Army of the Potomac . LAMC provided thousands of war-wounded with high-quality medical care during every US foreign conflict of the 20th century. One of the last two remaining cemeteries within the city's limits

6351-405: The tidegates: Santa Clara Valley Water District , City of Palo Alto , and Santa Clara County Vector Control. Because the trash grate and weirs separate the mouth of the flood basin from the San Francisco Bay estuary, large fish cannot swim freely between the Bay and the basin, unless the sluice gate is open. In addition, the tidegates are set to reduce tidal inflows into the basin, so that the basin

6438-527: The tides are higher. In the 1800s the Baylands marshes ended between Alma and El Camino Real in Palo Alto, which explains why historical maps show area creeks appearing to terminate before they reach the Bay. Duck-hunting blinds were common in the nineteenth century along what is now Middlefield Road. The 1862 Allardt map shows Adobe Creek, then Yeguas Creek , having dual termini – one in the Baylands Marsh and

6525-591: The top of the Moody Creek tributary, bigleaf maple ( Acer macrophyllum ), California buckeye ( Aesculus californica ), California bay laurel ( Umbellularia californica ) and California walnut ( Juglans californica ). Steelhead trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ) occurred historically in Adobe Creek. The earliest report touted the trout in the Sportsman's Gazetteer in 1877. This very early report makes rumors that Adobe Creek's trout were introduced extremely unlikely since

6612-606: The valley floor to descend through Los Altos, Mountain View, and Palo Alto. The creek's course runs 11 miles (18 km). From 2003 to 2009, Upper Reach 5 of Adobe Creek (between Foothill Expressway and West Edith Avenue) was restored in an innovative partnership called the Adobe Creek Watershed Group with representatives from the Santa Clara Valley Water District , local residents and representatives of

6699-560: The wide, curving Loop Trail eventually touches San Francisco Bay itself and curves to the west, crossing over the tidal gate of Mayfield Slough and enters the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve . The sailing station boat launching dock is visible on the opposite shore of the channel at the mouth of the former Palo Alto Yacht Harbor. Baylands Nature Preserve surrounds what used to be the Palo Alto Yacht Harbor, now

6786-516: Was a destination resort in the 1940s. Bandleaders Jimmy Dorsey and Harry James played there. John Warnock and Charles Geschke , the co-founders of the Adobe Systems software company, both lived next to Adobe Creek in Los Altos , and named their company after the creek. The founder of Los Altos, Paul Shoup , picked a premium lot on Adobe Creek for his home from the ranch lands he helped purchase from Sarah Winchester that later became

6873-474: Was constructed by the SCVWD in 1959). Also, in 1956, Pink Horse Ranch developer Wendell Roscoe, re-directed Adobe Creek into a new straight line channel next to Moody Road that he dug to redirect the water along the edge of his subdivision "in order to prevent a repeat of two 100-year floods which left the 40 acre Pink Horse Ranch under 2 feet of water". Roscoe installed a flood gate at 12243 Tepa Way which can redirect

6960-447: Was granted Rancho San Antonio in 1839 by Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado . The Adobe Creek name appears as early as 1855 on an official surveyor's map, which lists both the Adobe and San Antonio names for the creek. During the secularization of the missions in the 1830s, Alvarado parceled out much of their land to prominent Californios via land grants. Mesa was a soldier stationed at

7047-511: Was here that Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt signed 108 Civilian Exclusion Orders and directives for the internment of Japanese Americans under the authority of Executive Order 9066 signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. The Presidio sent its few remaining units to war for the last time in 1991 for Desert Storm , the First Gulf War. The role of the Sixth Army

7134-692: Was mounted by Foothill College in 1970. Around this same time, an Ohlone basket was discovered buried in the Creek bank further north. The O'Keefe site has a historical plaque at the entrance to Normandy Lane marking the historic site labeled "Ohlone Indian Village, Town of Los Altos Hills, Historical Site No. 1, Ohlone 10-L0-N11 Village Site Dedicated this day to the Ohlone People Whose ancestors made their homes here April 4, 1973. No. SCI-015. Presented by American Association of University Women of Los Altos". This Ohlone village site had an ideal location situated on

7221-445: Was much later diverted back to Adobe Creek. Barron Creek is 5.8 miles (9.3 km) long, originating in the Los Altos Hills foothills at elevation 360 feet (110 m) along La Paloma Road (just north of Alta Tierra Road), then flowing north along La Paloma Road, then it is joined by a Concepcion Road fork at Fremont Road and proceeds along Fremont Road behind Pinewood School , before turning northeasterly along Arastradero Road where it

7308-576: Was near Barron Creek . Because they were permanent features of the landscape, creeks were often used as Rancho boundaries. This was true locally, where the Mexican diseño show Adobe Creek as the boundary between Rancho San Antonio and Rancho La Purisima Concepcion. When Americans took over in 1850, speculators bought much of this land. Much of it initially became large self-contained ranches—typically running cattle & growing crops like wheat, barley & oats that required little or no irrigation. That changed in

7395-461: Was reached in 2006. Immediately after its inception, the trust began preparing rehabilitation plans for the park. Many areas had to be decontaminated before being prepared for public use. The Presidio Trust Act calls for the "preservation of the cultural and historic integrity of the Presidio for public use." The Act also requires that the Presidio Trust be financially self-sufficient by 2013. These imperatives have resulted in numerous conflicts between

7482-514: Was scheduled to be completed by 2016. The Trust plans to create a promenade that will link the Lombard Gate and the new Lucasfilm campus to the Main Post and, ultimately, to the Golden Gate Bridge. The promenade is part of a trail expansion plan that will add 24 miles (39 km) of new pathways and eight scenic overlooks throughout the park. In October 2008, artist Andy Goldsworthy constructed

7569-456: Was the management of training and coordinating deployment of Army National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve units in the Western U.S. for Operation Desert Storm. After a hard-fought battle, the Presidio averted being sold at auction and came under the management of the Presidio Trust, a U.S. government corporation established by an act of Congress in 1996. The Presidio Trust now manages most of

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