GUADALUPE VALLEY

Guadalupe Valley is San Bruno Mountain’s largest valley, enveloped by the mountain’s main ridge and the Guadalupe Hills.

In the mid-twentieth century, the development of Crocker Industrial Park transformed this pastoral plain, threaded with the hoof paths of rambling cattle and the meandering course of creeks, into a vast foundation suitable for warehouses and the efficient movement of trucks and trains on wide roads and rail tracks.

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Crocker Industrial Park brochure.  Courtesy of the Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley.

Crocker Industrial Park brochure. 

Courtesy of the Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley.

View of Guadalupe Valley before the development of Crocker Industrial Park, as seen from Santa Clara Street in Brisbane, CA.Brisbane Library History Collection.

View of Guadalupe Valley before the development of Crocker Industrial Park, as seen from Santa Clara Street in Brisbane, CA.

Brisbane Library History Collection.

Significant portions of the valley’s historic ecosystems were buried or built over as the industrial park developed and the City of Brisbane grew—including most of Guadalupe Creek and the salt marsh at the mouth of the valley.

Still, the valley remains a lively place where people, plants, and animals are connected to the mountain through trails (the Crocker Park Recreational Trail) and habitat corridors. San Bruno Mountain Watch has cultivated portions of the valley into places that evoke its natural history and sustain its remaining biodiversity.

[Plat of part of the Rancho Cañada de Guadalupe la Visitacion y Rodeo Viejo, finally confirmed to Henry R. Payson (San Mateo Co., Calif.) / Surveyed under instructions from the U.S. Surveyor General; by Alexander Garbi, Dep. Surr], Maps of private land grant cases of California, land case map, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Land Case Map E-570. 1858.

[Plat of part of the Rancho Cañada de Guadalupe la Visitacion y Rodeo Viejo, finally confirmed to Henry R. Payson (San Mateo Co., Calif.) / Surveyed under instructions from the U.S. Surveyor General; by Alexander Garbi, Dep. Surr], Maps of private land grant cases of California, land case map, 

The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Land Case Map E-570. 1858.


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