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Get to know Campbell

Suburban Campbell is right next door to — and almost entirely surrounded by — San Jose. Its fertile soil, coupled with the railroad’s arrival in the 1880s, spurred a century of development that took the city from a bustling industrial center of orchards and canneries to a modern Silicon Valley community that never lost touch with its roots. Campbell’s historic downtown bumps with boutiques, bars, eateries, and street fairs. Commercial spoils, including the popular Pruneyard shopping center, line Winchester, Bascom, and Hamilton, as well as San Tomas Expressway. There’s a slew of parks and access to the Los Gatos Creek Trail, a popular pedestrian and bike path from Willow Glen to the face of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The VTA’s Vasona light rail runs right into town, making it easy to roll into downtown San Jose for a show or Sharks game.

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Living in Silicon Valley

Twentieth-century innovation transformed the Santa Clara Valley, once a verdant Eden of blossoming plum and apricot orchards, from the rural “Valley of Heart’s Delight” to suburban Silicon Valley. Located at the south end of the San Francisco Bay Area, its borders are more or less congruent with Santa Clara County, though they're sometimes stretched by extension to cover tech-forward areas up the peninsula and the lower East Bay. Though roads are the default thoroughfare for local travel, there's a growing number of transit alternatives: CalTrain and now BART provides easy travel to San Francisco and Oakland, and the VTA light rail slinks streetcar-style through downtown San Jose on its way from Milpitas and Mountain View to Campbell and Santa Teresa. The Santa Cruz Mountains to the south and west, along with Mt. Hamilton and the Diablo Range to the east, keep nature in easy reach.