The Top 20 Natural Monuments around Palo Alto
Palo Alto’s landscape is a beautiful place to explore — something that you can best experience by visiting one of our 20
beautiful natural monuments around Palo Alto. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
beautiful natural monuments around Palo Alto. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
Last updated: October 19, 2025
Windy Hill Summit
Highlight • Summit
The hike from Razorback Ridge trailhead to the Windyhill summit is mostly through shaded sections. Sections of it kept cool from the fog rolling in from the Santa Cruz Mountains. …
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Black Mountain
Highlight • Summit
Highest point with a view across Palo Alto, Stanford, the Silicon Valley, and across the Bay. Note the Kaiser Permanente limestone quarry right below, ringed on the south by Permanente …
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Former salt ponds – Alviso wetlands
Highlight • Natural
The scenery is stunning here, as you ride between marshes and wetlands.
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Castle Rock Falls
Highlight • Waterfall
Castle Rock State Park presents this pretty 50-foot waterfall but also had sandstone formations, a magnificent forest and great vistas.
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Pond SF2 with Historical Baylands Exhibit
Highlight • Historical Site
Informative panels provide historical context for the former salt production ponds that were built into the fragile bay wetlands in the 19th century and are being partially restored to more natural wetlands in the past few decades.
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