In recent years, the City of Mountain View has developed some of the finest recreation destinations the Bay Area has to offer.

For those who love the outdoors, you will love what our City has to offer. Our City enjoys an average of 106 days of clear skies each year. Daytime temperatures are moderate, often in the fifties and sixties in the winter and the seventies and eighties in the summertime.

Shoreline Park, a 750-acre regional recreation and wildlife area, is home to extensive waterway for water sport enthusiasts; home to a wildlife sanctuary that contain many rare migratory birds; home to a stunning eighteen-hole championship-level golf course with a full functioning clubhouse; home to an Amphitheatre that can hold up to 25,000 people for musical performances, private functions, and corporate events; and home to a lakeside café and a full service restaurant. For pedestrians, joggers, and bicyclists, you will find a network of trails, bridges, and roadways.

For those who like the performing arts we have the Center for the Performing Arts, and for the booklovers we have a state of the art 70,000 square foot library. Both facilities are built around the downtown's Pioneer Park and Civic Center.

Downtown Mountain View provides a pedestrian-orientated destination point, offering cuisines for every taste preference, as well as specialty shops, bookstores, coffeehouses, and sidewalk cafes. With lots of great parking, year round events such as the Farmer’s Market, the Arts and Wine Festival, the A La Carte & Art, and the City’s summer concert series provide a lively, fun, and friendly environment.

Mountain View’s business areas, downtown, and neighborhoods are easily accessible from a variety of daily operating public transit systems. CalTrain rail system- -which has chosen our City as a stopping point for the baby bullet, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) Light Rail, various bus lines as well as numerous bike paths serve residents and visitors with excellent transportation services. Several major freeways and roads run through the City: U.S. Highway 101, California State Highway 85, California State Highway 82 (also known as El Camino Real), and Central Expressway.