California Park is an
unincorporated community
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in
Marin County
Marin County is a county located in the northwestern part of the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 262,231. Its county seat and largest city is San Rafael. Marin County is acros ...
,
California
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,
United States
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, and a suburb of
San Rafael. It lies north of
San Quentin State Prison
San Quentin State Prison (SQ) is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated place of San Quentin in Marin County.
Opened in July 1852, San Quentin is t ...
. Marin Sanitary Service is the largest tenant in the area.
The community is in
ZIP code 94901 and
area codes 415 and 628
Area codes 415 and 628 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the city of San Francisco and its northern suburbs in Marin County (across the Golden Gate), and the northeast corner of San Mateo County in the U. ...
.
The Cal Park Hill Tunnel
The Cal Park Hill Tunnel runs for through the hill to
Larkspur.
It opened in 1884 and was a double-track train tunnel owned by
Northwestern Pacific Railroad
The Northwestern Pacific Railroad is a regional shortline railroad utilizing a stretch of the 271 mile mainline between Schellville and Windsor with freight and Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) commuter trains. Formerly, it was a r ...
.
Train service stopped in the 1960s.
It is now owned by
Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART).
After a $27-million project, jointly funded by SMART and Marin County, half of the tunnel reopened on December 10, 2010, as a bicycle and pedestrian path.
Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit uses the other half to connect the line from downtown
San Rafael to the
Larkspur Ferry Terminal.
Originally estimated to cost $4 million, the tunnel was rehabilitated for pedestrian access at a cost of $28 million in 2010; additionally the rail line was extended from its temporary terminal at San Rafael Transit Center at a cost of $55.4 million.
References
Further reading
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External links
Marin Bike Coalition letter to SMART boardSMART homepage
Unincorporated communities in California
Unincorporated communities in Marin County, California
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