SCENIC EXCURSIONS 



$3.50) ; Montgomery (European plan, $1.50 up) ; 

 St. James (European plan, $1.50 up). 



Mission San Jose, Alameda County. Leave San 

 Francisco from Southern Pacific ferry at Ferry 

 Building, foot of Market Street, 9:00 A. M., or board 

 the connecting train at Oakland, First and Broad- 

 way Station, 9:34 A. M. Buy a round trip ticket 

 to Niles. From Niles the journey of five miles by 

 automobile may be made to the old Spanish Mis- 

 sion, founded in 1797 by Franciscan padres: 

 "Palmdale" with palm gardens, one-hundred-year- 

 old pear and fig trees, planted by the padres. Cost, 

 round trip railroad fare, $1.10. 



To San Mateo, Burlingame, Hillsboro. By San 

 Mateo electric car from Fifth and Market streets, 

 San Francisco, service every thirty minutes. Upon 

 return, transfer at Daly City to the Ocean View 

 street car line, No. 26, marked "Ferries and Daly 

 City, via Mission, Guerrero Street and San Jose 

 Avenue." Total fare, 50 cents. An eighteen-mile 

 trip from San Francisco into the fashionable coun- 

 try-home communities of Burlingame, San Mateo, 

 and Hillsboro. At San Mateo, automobiles or motor 

 buses may be secured for a ride through the most 

 attractive sections. (Peninsula Hotel, American 

 plan, $3.50 up.) 



Santa Cruz Beach and Big Trees. By Southern 

 Pacific from Third and Townsend Street Station, 

 San Francisco; several trains daily. Cost, special 

 season rate, round trip, $4.00. Saturday to Mon- 

 day, $3.00. Those remaining over at Santa Cruz 

 to visit the California Redwood Park may take the 

 train next morning to Boulder Creek, and auto- 

 mobile stage from Boulder Creek to the Park. 



Among the many attractions of this trip are 

 a popular seaside resort, with good hotels, bath- 

 ing beaches, yachting and fishing in Monterey Bay, 

 trout fishing in the mountain streams, tramping and 

 camping in the solitudes of the redwood forest, 

 and driving through productive valleys; also views 

 of a magnificent grove of Big Trees (Sequoia 

 sempervirens) six miles from Santa Cruz. From 

 Santa Cruz northwesterly extends a series of ele- 

 vated old ocean terraces. Two railroads (Southern 

 Pacific and Ocean Shore) run to Davenport, eleven 

 miles, on the lowest of these old ocean strands, 

 and afford an excellent view of the others. The 

 California State Redwood Park in the "Big Basin," 

 a public park of 8000 acres of redwood forest, 

 is twenty-eight miles from Santa Cruz. Hotels: 

 Casa del Rey (European plan, $2.00 up) ; St. George 

 Hotel (American plan, $3.00 up). 



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