Santa Clara County, is California's 6th most populous county, with a population of 1,936,259 as of the 2020. Santa Clara County and neighboring San Benito County form the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan statistical area, which is part of the larger San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area. The county seat and largest city with a population of 971,233 is San Jose.
Twin Gates Trailhead is located near Mt. Hamilton in California. It serves as an entry point for various hiking and biking trails in the Diablo Range. The trailhead offers panoramic views of the surrounding hills and valleys. The area is known for diverse wildlife, including deer, birds, and sometimes even wild pigs. The region boasts a variety of plant species, including oak woodlands and chaparral.
The Lick Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of California. It is on the summit of Mount Hamilton, in the Diablo Range just east of San Jose, California. The first new moon of Jupiter to be identified since the time of Galileo, Amalthea, the planet's fifth moon, was discovered at this observatory in 1892.
Mount Hamilton is a mountain in the Diablo Range in Santa Clara County, California. The mountain's peak, at 4,265 feet (1,300 m), overlooks the heavily urbanized Santa Clara Valley and is the site of Lick Observatory, the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory.
