The John W. Christian Greenbelt is a stretch of green land in northern

Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale () is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwest Santa Clara County in the U.S. state of California. Sunnyvale lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101 and is bordered by portions of San Jose to the nort ...

Location

It is wide and runs east to west for above the

Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct Hetch Hetchy is a valley, a reservoir, and a water system in California in the United States. The glacial Hetch Hetchy Valley lies in the northwestern part of Yosemite National Park and is drained by the Tuolumne River. For thousands of years bef ...

, linking Orchard Gardens Park on Sunnyvale's west side and Fairwood Park on the Santa Clara border in Sunnyvale.

History

It was created under the name ''Hetch Hetchy Greenbelt'' in the mid-1970s as an asphalt track for pedestrians and bicycles, and part of it was improved by a landscape beautification project. Between 1994 and 2001 the landscaping was completed.

Renaming

On June 10, 2002, it was renamed after John W. Christian, who initiated the second phase of the landscaping as Parks and Recreation Director, but died in 1996 before it was finished. The land is owned by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, leased out to the city of Sunnyvale.

References

Sunnyvale, California Bike paths in the San Francisco Bay Area Protected areas of Santa Clara County, California {{SantaClaraCountyCA-geo-stub