Oak Ridge in Santa Clara County, California, is a ridge forming the east canyon wall of Arroyo Hondo, which drains into Calaveras Reservoir. Black Mountain is its highest point. The first known white settlers on Oak Ridge were the Parks family, who ran cattle on the ridge. Now owned by the San Francisco Water Department, the ridge is private property and is off-limits to most people.
Famous quotes containing the words oak and/or ridge:
“Where he swings in the wind and rain,
In the sun and in the snow,
Without pleasure, without pain,
On the dead oak tree bough.”
—Edward Thomas (1878–1917)
“The light passes
from ridge to ridge,
from flower to flower.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)