Verona, California

Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park is a 5,271-acre (21.33 km2) park in the East Bay Regional Park District overlooking Pleasanton, California and the Livermore Valley to the east. The park is scheduled to grow by almost 1,500 acres (6.1 km2) (sic) with the acquisition of the Tyler Ranch.

Ridgelands Regional Park is a future regional park to be developed in Pleasanton, CA by the East Bay Regional Park District. The concept is expected to be developed over many years; the core has already been put in place as the Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park, a 5,200-acre (21 km2) park west of Pleasanton and north of Sunol, that overlooks Pleasanton and the Livermore Valley from the west.

The Hacienda del Pozo de Verona was a mansion designed by architect A. C. Schweinfurth for philanthropist Phoebe Hearst in the Amador Valley near Pleasanton, California. The Hacienda was originally built between 1894 and 1898, with substantial later additions designed by architect Julia Morgan. The design of the Hacienda combined Mission, Pueblo, and Moorish architectural styles. It was destroyed by fire in 1969.A railroad station named Hacienda (or Hearst) was built on the Western Pacific Railroad to serve the estate.The property was acquired by a group of businessmen in 1924 and it became the original home of the Castlewood Country Club.

Thomas Foxwell Bachelder Barn is a historical building in Sunol, California, The Thomas Foxwell Bachelder Barn was built in 1888. The Thomas Foxwell Bachelder Barn was listed to the National Register of Historic Places on April 15, 1994. The Thomas Foxwell Bachelder Barn is a 2+1⁄2-story, stone building at the bottom of a hill in rural setting of Sunol. The barn was built from stones cut from Sinbad Creek, across the street from the barn. In the creek are still some stonecutter's marks in rocks. The stones are rough cut, with no finishing work. The agricultural building was built with 36 inch think stone walls. The barn served the 900-acre Bachelder farm. The farm was part of the 2,108-acre Bachelder Rancho that was as subdivided in 1884. The only other remains of the farm are two stone-lined cisterns and the stone foundations of a bridge and an old house. The barn was sold to its current owners in 1975. By 1975, the barn had been vacant for years and was dilapidated, as most of the wood parts of the barn were in very poor condition or missing. At that time the barn still had it original dirt first story dirt floor. The new owner converted the 1888 barn into a home and had it seismic retrofitting. It was listed, as it one of the five most important buildings from Sunol's early years. The other buildings being: the Sunol Water Temple, Elliston, the old Congregational Church, and the Apperson House. Bachelder was born in 1834 in Maine. In Maine, Bachelder studied law and was a lawyer in Maine. He came to in California in 1864 and practiced law in San Francisco. He slowly bought up 2,108 acres of land in Sunol along the Sinbad Creek and planted 350 acres of orchards. Later, in the 1910s he sold the farm and returned to law in Oakland. Bachelder donated some of his land for the local Congregational Church of Sunol. In 1954, the church was painted brown and renamed The Little Brown Church of Sunol. Bachelder built the town's hotel, Hazel Glen, which he sold in 1890, and burned down 1910. Bachelder built the Kilkare Road in town. In 1884, Bachelder did a subdivision of his land, thus became the founder of the City of Sunol. Nearby is Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park.

Augustin Bernal Community Park is a 237-acre (0.96 km2) park in the hills southwest of Pleasanton, California.The park was donated to the city in 1971 by Walter S. Johnson, and connects to Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park. The park is named for the Spanish settler Augustin Bernal, to whom the land on which the park sits was originally granted.Access to the park's public staging area is through a gated community, Golden Eagle Farms. Pleasanton residents can show proof of residency to get past the community's gate at Golden Eagle Way and Foothill Road; non-residents can obtain a one-week permit at Pleasanton's Department of Parks and Community Services. The Community Services office is at 200 Old Bernal Ave. in Pleasanton.

Village High School (commonly called Village) is a public continuation high school located in Pleasanton, California, United States, a community in the San Francisco East Bay area. Village is a part of the Pleasanton Unified School District, which also includes Amador Valley High School and Foothill High School. The high school was formed for students from Amador Valley and Foothill with low grades, multiple absences, or credit deficiencies.

The Pleasanton Unified School District (PUSD) is a public primary and secondary education school district located in Pleasanton, California, United States, a suburban town east of San Francisco. It consists of nine elementary schools, three middle schools, two comprehensive high schools, and one alternative high school. It includes the majority of Pleasanton and sections of Hayward and Sunol.

The Pleasanton Public Library serves the city of Pleasanton in Alameda County, California. The library is located near downtown Pleasanton at 400 Old Bernal Avenue. The Pleasanton Women's Improvement Club was formed in 1908 to improve the community of Pleasanton, an agricultural town located in the "Tri-Valley" area east of San Francisco. Their first project was to establish a reading room. With $1,100 they raised at an "Old Maid's Convention" and other fundraisers, they purchased a site to house the Reading Room. In 1909, it was opened to the public. Books were donated and a librarian was hired for $10 per month. Honored guests for the formal opening were Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst and her guest, the Consul of Persia. After Pleasanton's first city hall (now the Museum on Main Street) was built in 1915, the city leased a portion of it to the club for $1 per year to house the library and reading room.The library has grown to keep pace with Pleasanton as it changed from an agricultural town to a suburban residential community and one of the modern business centers of the East Bay area. In 1964, the library became a full member of the Alameda County Library system. In 1973, the need for growth led the library to a new 6,900-square-foot (640 m2) facility on Black Avenue, with approximately 35,000 books. In 1987, the city recognized the need for an even larger library and began construction on the current 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) facility, which opened in 1988. In 1999, in response to significant funding losses to the Alameda County Library system generated by California's "Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund", the City of Pleasanton withdrew from the system to become a municipal library. Since that time, use of the library has more than doubled, with more than 1.1 million items checked out in calendar year 2005.

Kilkare Woods, also known as Kilcare Woods, is a small rural unincorporated community of about 773 people in southern Alameda County, California, near Pleasanton.Kilkare Woods began as a private association of summer cottages. The town lies along Sinbad Creek beside Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park, at an elevation of 827 feet (252 meters). The town is only accessible through Sunol by Kilkare Road. 96% of residents of the ZIP code spoke English as their primary language, while 4% did not. Of those who did not, 3% spoke Hindi and 1% spoke Spanish. Kilkare Woods is served by the CAL FIRE and Livermore-Pleasanton fire departments. Students attend elementary school at Sunol Glen Elementary School in Sunol and high school at Foothill High School in Pleasanton. Law enforcement services are provided by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.

Pleasanton station is a train station in Pleasanton, California served by Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) trains. It is located northwest of downtown Pleasanton adjacent to the Alameda County Fairgrounds. The station has a single side platform on the single track of the Union Pacific Railroad Oakland Subdivision.

Sunol Valley (Spanish: Valle de Suñol) is located in Alameda County, California, United States. The small town of Sunol lies in the valley. It is largely rural, but is in proximity to the highly populated Bay Area suburbs of Fremont, Pleasanton, and Livermore.

Sunol (Spanish: Suñol) is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Alameda County, California. Located in the Sunol Valley of the East Bay, the population was 913 at the 2010 census. It is best known as the location of the Sunol Water Temple and for its historic tourist railroad system, the Niles Canyon Railway.