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Local Geography

Stanford/Palo Alto Vicinity

  • El Camino Real is the main commercial artery of the Bay Area Peninsula with many shops and restaurants along it. The 3 local city down down areas of Santa Cruz Avenue (Menlo Park), University Avenue (Palo Alto) and Castro Street (Mountain View) populated with more shops and restaurants are marked in blue boxes in the map above. The red circled areas have clusters of hotels/motels.
  • CalTrain is a reasonable means for traveling to/from San Francisco and SFO airport (need to change to BART at Millbrae for SFO). CalTrain makes 3 stops near Stanford along El Camino Real and Alma Street for Menlo Park, Palo Alto, and California Avenue, with some of the hotels conveniently located nearby.
  • There is a free Marguerite shuttle system serving the Stanford campus and nearby areas.
  • The Santa Clara Transit VTA bus system serves along El Camino Real with line 22.
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