5660 Alpine Road Portola Valley, CA 94028
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5660 Alpine Road Portola Valley, CA 94028
for sale | Land or Vacant Lot
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About 5660 Alpine Road, Portola Valley, San Mateo, CA 94028
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Portola Valley
Though Portola Valley is arguably a suburb by its proximity to San Francisco, it is decidedly rural in character. Other than the Ladera Shopping Center, a market, and a feed store, there isn’t much commerce besides Rossotti’s Alpine Inn (“Zott’s” to locals), a storied watering hole in continuous operation since 1852. The rest of town is divvied up among large-lot homes, horse ranches, vineyards, and nature preserves. As for everything else, you’ll find it minutes away in Menlo Park, Palo Alto, or Los Altos. Named for Gaspar de Portolá, the community slowly transitioned from a dusty logging camp called Searsville to a fashionable country home destination for San Franciscans. Today, Portola Valley serves as a pastoral enclave in the heart of Silicon Valley. In 1976, researchers sent a message via TCP/IP from Zott’s to a van in the parking lot, making it the site of the first internet transmission, burnishing the town’s tech credentials.