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Coyote Point Park is located in San Mateo County, California. Coyote Point Park is 600 acres (2.4 km²) in area, located on land at the edge of San_Francisco_Bay, south of San_Francisco_International_Airport,on the boarder of Burlingame, California and San Mateo, California. San Mateo County is a county located in the San Francisco Bay Area. ... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd) - Land 404,298 km² - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate The San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary in which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ... FAA diagram of SFO San Francisco International Airport is located in San Mateo County adjacent to the cities of Millbrae and San Bruno, 13 miles (21 km) south of San Francisco, California. ... Burlingame Library Burlingame is a city located in San Mateo County, California. ... San Mateo is a city located in San Mateo County, California, USA. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. ...

History

Originally Coyote Point was an island in San Francisco Bay with a marsh connecting it to the mainland. In the 1800s this marsh will filled in to make lands suitable for Dairy_farming. Dairy farming is a class of agricultural enterprise, raising female cattle for long-term production of milk, which may be either processed on-site or transported to a dairy for processing and eventual retail sale. ...

In the early 1900s, the seashore along Coyote was used as an amusement park - "The Coney Island of the West", but this theme park eventually fell into disuse and was dismantled.

Later in its history, the area was used as a Coast Guard training school. In 1942, San Mateo County acquired the lands and turned it into a park.

As well as containing recreational ameneties for walking, cycling and picnicing, the park contains the Coyote Park Museum for Environmental Education, the Coyote Park Marina and a San Mateo County shooting range.

External links

Coyote Point Park (http://baytrail.abag.ca.gov/vtour/map2/access/CoyotePt/CoyotePt.htm)
Coyote Point Museum (http://www.coyoteptmuseum.org)

Categories: San Mateo County, California | San Francisco Bay Area

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