• Celebrations

    Halloween/Fall Fests

    Halloween At 1949 Grand Teton

    Photo is of the GoMilpitas Haunted Yard at the east end of Grand Teton Dr. Haunted again in 2023! If you have a community-wide October Halloween or Fall Fest Drive-Trough Celebration that you’d like to publicize here, please email your Go Milpitas guide, Ann Zeise. Please leave the Milpitas address of your “haunted” yard or driveway or parking lot. Since such displays may be going up early, if you wish visitors over a range of dates, include those dates. If you have a time range when the display will be on, include that. Leave me your phone number or email address just incase I need to contact you with questions…

  • Shops

    Furnishings and Crafts at McCarthy Ranch

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    Shop for home furnishings, furniture, and home decorations at McCarthy Ranch, Milpitas, CA, and nearby. Home Interiors Furniture Every day at Home Interiors Furniture, customers discover unique, stylish, quality furniture they can afford. Because our prices are low every day of the week and every month of the year, you know our sales are extra special events.Plus, we’re constantly updating our inventory, offering you the latest looks in home furniture fashions at great prices. 1210 Great Mall Dr. 510-797-4882 Living Spaces 94,700 square foot showroom. A supervised play room for the little ones. With furniture for every taste and space, it’s important for us to offer a little guidance on…

  • Media

    Newspapers

    Milpitas Post of Past

    Stop by here to get the daily news or place a classified advertisement in local Milpitas newspapers: the Beat, The Post & The Union. Milpitas Newspapers GoMilpitas News Archives Current and past news stories on this site. Milpitas Post News stories now a part of the Mercury News, so you will only see a few news stories. To contact the Mercury News, use this page to get to the right department. No longer any physical presence in Milpitas. Ian Bauer was let go. No way to publish your local events or advertisements. Please consider using the GoMilpitas Events listings here for free. Contact me about advertising on GoMilpitas.com. The Milpitas…

  • History

    Mysterious Rock Walls

    East Bay Mysterious Rock Walls are also known as the Berkeley Mystery Walls. These crude, stone walls are located in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. In places, they are up to a meter high and a meter wide; the walls run in sections anywhere from a few meters to over a half mile long. The rocks used to construct the East Bay Walls are a variety of sizes. Some are basketball-sized rocks, while others are large sandstone boulders weighing a ton or more. Parts of the wall seem to be just piles of rocks, but in other places it appears the walls were carefully constructed. The exact age…

  • Arts & Entertainment

    Museums In and Near Milpitas

    Park and History Museum Plans

    I’m not counting the “collection” in our garage, no I’m not! As some of you know, we homeschooled our son. So I’m going to talk about our favorite “field trips” in the area. I’m going to focus on museums for children and the young at heart. Plans for Milpitas History Museum Milpitas is the only large city in Santa Clara County without a museum. Locating a museum next door to the Milpitas Public Library and Municipal Parking Garage is ideal and must be preserved. The Children’s Discovery Museum We were members for years when Scott was younger, going to the BIG PURPLE BUILDING where they “let you play in the…

  • History

    Ancient & Medieval History in the South Bay Area

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    You can find out more about ancient and medieval times right here in the South Bay Area. Learn about the mysterious rock wall formations, too. Paleontological Boy Paleontologists In the Irvington gravel pits, known as Bell Quarry, located off of Osgood Road from 1944 to 1960, the Boy Paleontologists of Hayward unearthed plant and animal fossils including mammoths, saber cats, horses, camels, and even rodents. A new species named Tetrameryx irvingtonensis, a four-pronged antelope, was the most significant find. Presently Freeway 680, between Washington Boulevard and Durham Road, covers this fossil field. Children’s Natural History Museum Including “Irvingtonian Fossils”, the “Boy Paleontologist” Room, “Bones of Vertebrates,” and “Environments through Time”…

  • Sports & Recreation

    Amusement Parks Near Milpitas

    Roller Coaster

    Amusement parks to spend the day riding roller coasters, merry-go-rounds, getting dizzy, all close enough to Milpitas for a day trip. Gilroy Gardens Family Theme Park Opening May 22, 2021. Unique theme park centered around trees and horticulture in a mid-20th century Silicon Valley historical setting. Family fun including amusement rides and attractions. 3050 Hecker Pass Hwy, Gilroy CA 408-840-7100 Golfland Amusement chain featuring mini golf courses & arcades, some branches with water slides & laser tag. 1199 Jacklin Rd. 408-263-6855 Great America Fifteen minutes from Milpitas, in Santa Clara, an amusement park where the young and young at heart play. Opening May 22, 2021. Tickets and reservations now available.…

  • Travel & Transportation

    Kiddie Train Rides

    Little Puffer

    Take the kids on fun pint-sized train rides near Milpitas, in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad Vasona Park, Los Gatos. There are two locomotives, the primary one, Number 2, is a 1905 vintage steam engine of the 2-6-2 prairie type, weighing approximately four tons. Runs year ’round, unless it’s raining too hard. 233 Blossom Hill Road, Los Gatos, CA 95032. Casa de Choo Choo Casa de Fruta’s Narrow Gauge Railroad is fun for children of all ages. The two-mile long track meanders through the complex, passing along scenic Pacheco Creek, past the zoo and the enclosure that is home to peacocks and rare white…

  • Travel & Transportation

    Air Travel

    SJC Hands

    How to get to Milpitas and how to leave it via air travel. Most use SJC out of San Jose, as the closest airport to Milpitas. Airlines Airlines at the Norman Y. Mineta San Jose Airport Page with the links to each airline, where you can find flight information. Airplane Manufacturers RnR Products Our all composite miniature aircraft have flown the world including the first UAV to cross the Atlantic non-stop! 1120 Wrigley Way, 408-946-4751. Airports Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport Located five miles southwest of Milpitas, San Jose International Airport (SJC) is the closest air service for visitors to travel to and from Milpitas. Airlines and Flights…

  • Arts & Entertainment

    Roller Coasters

    Dipper Kids

    Milpitas is near enough to four theme parks for day trips to the best roller coasters in the country! All 4 parks are 20 minutes to an hour away during commute hours, faster on weekends and holidays. Roller Coasters Nearby From nearest to furthest… Great America Information about the nine roller coasters at Great America in Santa Clara: Demon, Flight Deck, Gold Striker, Lucy’s Crabbie Cabbies, Patriot, Psycho Mouse, Railblazer, The Grizzly, and Woodstock Express. Includes how tall you have to be to ride each. Driving time from Milpitas town center: about 20 minutes. 6 miles away. 4701 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054 Gilroy Gardens Rides-some coasters This…