More Almaden Quicksilver Park Info

• Almaden Quicksilver County Park - Official Website
• Park Map
• Natural Diversity and Cultural History
• Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum
• Almaden Quicksilver County Park Van Tour 11/17/01
• Bay Area Backroads: Almaden Quicksilver Mine
• California's Gold: Quicksilver
• ePinions: Almaden Quicksilver
• Bay Nature: Almaden Quicksilver
• Wildernet: Almaden Quicksilver
• Greenbelt Alliance: Almaden Quicksilver
• Review of Almaden Quicksilver
• Wikipedia: Almaden Quicksilver
• Anwers.com: Almaden Quicksilver County Park
• MNN.net: Sunny trails through history: Almaden Quicksilver County Park 

Other Parks, Open Space, and Neighborhood

• Santa Clara County Parks
• Powerpoint presentation created by Ron Horii, showing activities in all the Santa Clara County Parks (18 MB)
• Almaden Valley Community Association
• About Almaden
• Ron Horii's Bay Area Backpages:

Bay Area Biking - Los Alamitos Creek Trail

Bay Area Hiking - Santa Clara County Parks and City Parks

How Green is My Valley

Places to Take Young Children

Places to Take School-Age Children

• Ron Horii's San Francisco Bay Travel and Recreation Page
• Coyote Creek Trail
• Santa Teresa County Park Page
• Friends of Santa Teresa Park
• Santa Teresa Hills and the Coyote-Alamitos Canal
• Supervisor Bianca Alvarado's Newsfax: "Go Outside and Play"
• City of San Jose Park, Recreation, and Neighborhood Services
• Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District - Sierra Azul
• Bay Area Ridge Trail Council
• Bay Area Open Space Council
• Santa Clara County Open Space Authority
• Peninsula Open Space Trust
• Bay Area Barns and Trails
• Bay Area Backcountry
• AlmadenValley.com
• Almaden Valley
• Dog Parks for Exercise and Socialization

History, Preservation, and News

• Almaden Resident: " New Almaden residents toil to restore the aged beauty of their historic homes"
• New Almaden's history preserved in photo book set for release this fall
• New Almaden (Images of America) book by Mike Boulland and Art Boudreault
• Woz Way Projects: The Great California Quicksilver Rush
• "County Parks has acquired Casa Grande and Club Almaden Gardens"
• Tour of the New Almaden Mines
• New Almaden Mines
• Ghost Towns - New Almaden
• National Register of Historic Places: New Almaden
• History of Mexican Americans in California: Spanishtown Site
• Lost Gatos Weekly-Times: "Decorum Decomposed - Nothing's sacred where double entendre and bathroom humor rule
• The Barbary Coast Theatre (now in Monterey)
• "County Steps in to Buy Historic Club Almaden"
• Mercury News: "Saving Almaden's Casa Grande" (requires registration)
• Mercury News: "Board Saves Old Opry House" (requires registration)
• Losgatos.com: "Los Gatos Was Once Best Gateway to New Almaden
• U.S. Army: Henry Wager Halleck
• The 1911 Edition Encyclopedia: Henry Wager Halleck
• Mary Hallock Foote, Write and Illustrator
• California: The Silicon Valley Origins
• Resident Writes About Heritage: 'When Miners Sang' is Gage McKinney's Newest Published Book
• Picture from the Past: Historic Cornish choral group comes to the Almaden mines
• History San Jose (includes the The Jimmy Schnieder and Robert Bullmore Collection of New Almaden Mine Materials in their collections).
• Preservation Action Council of San Jose
• Heritage Council of Santa Clara County
• National Trust for Historic Preservation
• Santa Clara County History and Genealogy Research
• Metroactive "Grave Consequences" (historic graveyards)
• Online Archive of California: New Almaden Mines Collection
• Berryessa/Bernal Court Case
• The Berryessa Family Heritage
• California Historical Society Directory: Santa Clara Valley
• The Almaden Mercury Mine (in Spanish)
• The Trail Companion: Up and Down the Peninsula and South Bay
• Book Reviews: Up and Down California in 1860-1864
• Oakland Museum Photo: New Almaden Quicksilver Mine, 1863
• California History Books
• Epinions book review of book: Quicksilver: The Complete History of Santa Clara County's New Almaden Mine
• Photo of New Almaden Shooters, 1885
• Carleton Watkins Photo: The Town on the Hill, New Almaden, 1863
• Carleton Watkins Photo: Smelting Works, New Almaden
• History of Mexicans in Silicon Valley
• The Story of Almaden Vineyards
• History of California Links
• California State Library: Gold Rush Exhibit
• California Room - San Jose Public Library
• Museum of the City of San Francisco: California gold mining (see quicksilver use)
• Did Abe Lincoln try to seize New Almaden’s Quicksilver mines?
• Wikipedia: New Almaden
• History repeats itself: Two New Almaden historic homes dedicated with monuments
• New Almaden historical markers:
• Randol House plaque
• John Young House plaque
• Huttner House plaque
• Scott House plaque
• Hauck House plaque
• Bulmore House plaque
• Carson House plaque
• Bulmore Historical Park plaque
• Vichy Spring plaque
• New Almaden's Civil War Crisis plaque
• El Senator Mine plaque
• California State Historic Landmark 339 - New Almaden Mine
• As American as apple pie: New Almaden Day ‘Jump In’ Parade 
• The New Almaden Community Club building has some very old roots 
• History of Almaden Township

Flora and Fauna

• IBM Almaden Research Center: Wild Almaden
• Birding in the Almaden Valley
• Birding along the Alamitos Creek Trail
• Birds West
• Birding at the Bottom of the Bay
• Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society
• Mountain Lion Links
• Wildflowers of Almaden Quicksilver Park
• Plant List: Almaden Quicksilver
• California Wildflowers
• Cal Academy Wildflowers
• Wild-flowers.com

Hiking, Biking, Horseback Riding, Trails and Park Usage

• Bay Area Hiker
• ACTC Almaden Quicksilver Park Ride
• Dogfriendly: Almaden Quicksilver
• GateTrails: Almaden Quicksilver
• GORP: New Almaden Mine
• ROMP: Making a Difference at Almaden Quicksilver
• MTB Insanity: Almaden Quicksilver
• Almaden Quicksilver Day Hike
• SF Hiking Club: Almaden Quicksilver
• KTVU: Bay Area Hiking - Almaden Quicksilver
• SFBG: Almaden Quicksilver
• SF Bay Triathlon: Almaden Quicksilver
• Quicksilver Running Club
• Mountain Biking on the San Francisco Peninsula and the South Bay Area
• Santa Clara County Horsemen's Association
• San Martin Horsemen's Association
• Bay Area Backroads story: Ride and Tie at Almaden Quicksilver
• Ride and Tie website
• Book: South Bay Trails
• Book: 12 Short Hikes: San Francisco South Bay Area
• Trails.com: Almaden Quicksilver County Park Topo Map
• Hiking San Francisco: South Bay Hiking
  

Photography and Art

• Dan Mitchell: Almaden Quicksilver Photographs
• A Visit to Almaden Quicksilver
• Calphoto (look for wildflower info)
• Oil Painting: Almaden Quicksilver Park
• Quicksilver: Mines & Ghost Towns
• Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception

Quicksilver Mining

• The 1911 Encyclopedia: Mercury (element)
• Properties of mercury
• The Geology of Mercury
• California Geological Survey: Mecury
• A Brief History of Gold Extraction Methods
• The Penny Magazine - Aug. 8, 1835: Mercury
• Alaska Mines & Geology - Madhatters of the Kuskokwim quicksilver mines
• Wikipedia: Cinnabar
• Cinnabar - high grade mercury ore
• Cinnabar specimens
• Minerals of Scotland (see Inclusions in Quartz from Almaden, Spain)
• Where is mercury found in the world?
• Almaden, Spain
• More Espana Adventures
• Idrija - A heritage of mercury mining and lace making
• Quicksilver Deposits of the Mount Diablo District
• Quicksilver at Mount Diablo
• Bancroft Library: Papers relating to Quicksilver mining
• Mercury concentration and speciation associated with acid mine drainage: New Idria Quicksilver Mine
• Red Rock Mercuy Mine, Nevada
• Mining's tarnished legacy: Clear Lake Sulphur Bank Mercury Mine
• A History of Chinese Americans in California: Sulphur Bank Mine
• Mercury mining (Texas)
• Big Bend National Park: The Mariscal Mine

Mercury and Environmental Issues

• Mercury Toxicity in the Human Brain: Knowns and Unknowns
• Trace Elements in the Environment
• EPA: Questions About Mercury
• Mad Hatters and Garimpeiros
• SCVWD: Guadalupe Watershed Mercury Study
• SCVWD: Guadalupe River TMDL Project
• DSTC: Almaden Quicksilver County Park
• San Jose Metro: Mercury Madness
• SF Bay Mercury Backgrounder
• UCSC Review: Mercury a Toxic Legacy
• UCSC Currents: Inoperative mercury mines fingered as a major source of mercury contamination in California waters
• Contaminants Toxic to Wildlife
• MERCURY DEPOSITION IN A TIDAL MARSH DOWNSTREAM OF THE HISTORIC NEW ALMADEN MINING DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA
• Addressing the Environmental Mercury Problem in Watersheds: Remediation in the Guadalupe River Watershed, San Jose, California
• The Mercury Problem: California's Gold Rush Legacy
• Legacy Pollution: What Does It Mean for the Health of the Bay?
• San Francisco Estuary Institute: Documents and Reports
• Mercury News: "SF Bay Slowly Repairing Itself" (requires registration)
• Mercury News: "Flood project restores Guadalupe gracefully" (requires registration)
• Mercury Contamination in the Yuba and Bear River Watersheds
• Guadalupe-Coyote Resource Conservation District
• EPA: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Final Determination of Critical Habitat for the Bay Checkerspot Butterfly
• California's Abandoned Mines
• Sacramento Bee: "Mother Lodes of Mercury: Waste from old mines poisoning state's fish"
• California Offiee of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment: Fish - Mercury in fish
• FDA: Risks of mercury in fish
• EPA: Consumption advice on mercury in freshwater fish
• Calero Reservoir: Catch and Release Bass Fishing In the Valley of Quicksilver Mines
• Gold-washing history
• USDA Forest Service: Community Relations Plans for the Blue Ridge and Amity Mine Sites, Prineville, Crook County, Oregon
• Environmental Impact Report of the Almaden Dam Program

Other Outdoor Links

• Everything a Camper Needs to Know About Camping at Camping Expert

Created 3/6/2001, updated 11/24/2010 by Ronald Horii