The city of Sunnyvale, CA (pop. 131,760) has completed the Calabazas Creek Trail, a pedestrian and bicycle trail between U.S. 101 and Route 237. The project was completed in cooperation with Santa Clara Valley Water District, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the city of Santa Clara, with city, state and Santa Clara Valley Water District funding.

The 1.5-mile trail connects Mission College, the John W. Christian Greenbelt at Fairwood Park, VTA’s Reamwood Light Rail Station and the San Tomas Aquino and Bay Trails via Old Mountain View-Alviso Road. The trail is the latest bike-facility construction project for Sunnyvale, which was recently crowned as a Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists.

The 1.5 mile, paved, ADA-compliant trail connects Mission College, the John W. Christian Greenbelt at Fairwood Park, VTA’s Reamwood Light Rail Station, and the San Tomas Aquino and Bay Trails via Old Mountain View-Alviso Road. Residents in northern Sunnyvale now can bike or walk to the Bay Trail and Baylands Park via the bicycle/pedestrian bridge over U.S. 101 at Ahwanee Drive, the John Christian Greenbelt Trail and the new Calabazas Trail.

A wide variety of birds and animals can be viewed from Calabazas Trail, including hawks, egrets, turkey vultures, marsh songbirds, carp and other riparian-corridor animals and plants. 

A low-water undercrossing of Tasman Drive will be constructed in the future as phase II of the project. 

For more information, contact John Pilger or Adam Levermore-Rich, Sunnyvale Communications Department at 408.730.7535.