Sweeney Ridge, is a 1,200-acre (5 km2) hilly hiking area of ridges and ravines between San Bruno and Pacifica, California, about a 25-minute drive south from San Francisco. The ridge's 1,200-foot-high summit, covered with coastal scrub and grassland, slopes down to San Francisco Bay on the east and to the Pacific Ocean on the west. The ridge is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Historically, the ridge is the location of the San Francisco Bay Discovery Site, commemorating the Portolá expedition's first sighting of San Francisco Bay on November 4, 1769 (expedition scouts actually made the discovery a few days earlier).[1]
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SweeneyRidge, is a 1,200-acre (5 km2) hilly hiking area of ridges and ravines between San Bruno and Pacifica, California, about a 25-minute drive south...
Sweeney may refer to: Sweeney (name) Clan Sweeney, an Irish clan of Scottish origin Sweeney Mountains, Palmer Land, Antarctica SweeneyRidge, a national...
while scouts led by José Francisco Ortega climbed SweeneyRidge, where they could see over the ridge toward the east, and so became the first Europeans...
and Sharp Park Municipal Golf Course to the north; by Highway 1 and SweeneyRidge to the east; and by the Calera Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant to the...
de Portola and his men camped north of here, after descending from SweeneyRidge, where they were reputed to be the first white men to view the San Francisco...
Francisco, to large and expansive forest and coastal lands, such as SweeneyRidge in San Mateo County and Muir Woods National Monument in Marin. Many...
flows 5.9 miles (9.5 km) southeasterly along the San Andreas Fault from SweeneyRidge in San Mateo County, California, providing the inflow to and outflow...
Homes and is part of the Bay Area Ridge Trail, along with the existing trail through Milagra Ridge to SweeneyRidge. The conservation easement was added...
expedition as they descended from their discovery of San Francisco Bay on SweeneyRidge down San Andreas Creek to Laguna Creek and then southeast down the San...
and historical Rockaway Quarry located nearby. With headwaters in the SweeneyRidge national park, this creek presently enjoys wetlands restoration from...
people lived near to the tree, in the village of Puichon. El Palo Alto SweeneyRidge Before conquest by Spanish missionaries in the 18th century, the land...
the tower's radar scope. The "Super Connie" crashed near the top of SweeneyRidge in San Bruno, very close to the site of a Coast Guard radio station...
This meant first retracing their steps north to where they had crossed SweeneyRidge from the coast. Sunol Water Temple Hetch Hetchy Valley San Francisco...
now Pacifica and reached the summit of the 1,200-foot-high (370 m) SweeneyRidge, now marked as the place where he first sighted San Francisco Bay. Portolá...
after the valley it is in. After discovering San Francisco Bay from SweeneyRidge on November 4, 1769, the Portolá expedition descended what Portolá called...
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