County parks offer one day of free admission
To celebrate the beginning of the park season, the Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department has named June 3 as "Go Outside and Play Day." Visitors to any of the county's 28 parks may visit them on that day and pay no vehicular entry fees. These parks hold more than 40,000 acres of diverse activities, including hiking, camping, bird-watching, playgrounds, biking, boating, kayaking, trap and skeet shooting, horseback riding and motorcycle riding.
The two county parks in Saratoga are Sanborn-Skyline and the property around Villa Montalvo. Nearby Los Gatos offers Lexington Reservoir, Vasona Lake and Los Gatos Creek.
The other parks are Almaden Quicksilver, Alviso Marina, Anderson Lake, Calero, Chesbro Reservoir, Chictactac-Adams, Coyote Creek, Coyote Hellyer, Coyote Lake, Ed R. Levin, Field Sports, Joseph D. Grant, Motorcycle Park, Mount Madonna, Penitencia Creek, Rancho San Antonio, Santa Teresa, Stevens Creek, Sunnyvale Baylands, Upper Stevens Creek, Uvas Canyon, Uvas Creek and Uvas Reservoir.
As part of Go Out and Play Day, park personnel will give away Frisbees and bumper stickers and will sell Venture Passes for cars and boats. The $50 passes allow unlimited access to all county parks for a full year, beginning from the date of purchase.
For more information, call 408.358.3741, or visit www.parkhere.org on the Internet.
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