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Monte Bello Open Space Preserve is a 3,133-acre (12.68 km 2) open space preserve, located near Palo Alto in the Santa Cruz Mountains, in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties, California, United States. The preserve encompasses the upper Stevens Creek watershed in the valley between Monte Bello Ridge and Skyline Ridge.
The 308 acres (125 ha) Picchetti Ranch Open Space Preserve was acquired by the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District in 1976. The winery is leased back to a private party. The preserve is partially surrounded by Stevens Creek County Park, and features 3.7 miles (6.0 km) of trails restricted to pedestrians and horses. [4] [5]
One of the largest systems is the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, which includes Brookfield Zoo and the Chicago Botanic Garden as well as 70,000 acres (280 km 2) of open land, or 11.6 percent of Cook County's land area. Under Illinois law, counties may set up a conservation land holding district, after approval by county voters.
Stevens Creek is a 20.9-mile-long (33.6 km) [4] stream in Santa Clara County, California.The creek originates in the Santa Cruz Mountains on the western flank of Black Mountain in the Monte Bello Open Space Preserve near the terminus of Page Mill Road at Skyline Boulevard.
The Open Space Preserve is on the west side of the County Park, also bordered by Los Altos Hills, Monte Bello Open Space Preserve, and the Permanente Quarry. The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District manages both the 3988 acre Open Space Preserve and the 289 acre County Park. [1]
The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District has permanently preserved almost 63,500 acres (25,700 ha) of mountainous, foothill, and bayland open space, creating 26 open space preserves. [citation needed] Of the district's 26 preserves, 24 are open to the public free of charge, 365 days a year from dawn until one-half hour after sunset.
It is located on the border between Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve and Monte Bello Open Space Preserve, with the summit located in the former. Early Spanish explorers commonly named tree- or chaparral-covered summits which look black in the distance Loma Prieta , from the Spanish ( loma -hill, prieta -dark). [ 3 ]
Monte Bello, Italian for beautiful mountain, can refer to: Monte Bello Open Space Preserve in California, part of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District; A wine label of Ridge Vineyards; Monte Bello (Guayaquil), a neighborhood of Guayaquil, Ecuador; Monte Bello, a barangay in Kananga, Leyte, The Philippines