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Mill Valley, CA
Mill Valley sits at the base of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, and its position directly adjacent to Muir Woods National Monument — a old-growth coast redwood forest preserved since 1908 — has given the town an unusually direct connection to towering ancient redwoods within a short drive of downtown San Francisco. The town's compact, walkable downtown, built around a historic railroad depot plaza that once served a since-discontinued commuter line, has retained a genuinely small-town character despite sitting less than fifteen miles from downtown San Francisco, with independent bookstores, cafés, and boutiques concentrated within a few blocks of the old depot. The Mill Valley Film Festival, founded in 1978 and now one of the longer-running film festivals in California, draws filmmakers and audiences to the small town every October, giving Mill Valley a genuine cultural event of national significance despite its modest year-round population of under 15,000. Reachable from San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway 101 or by ferry and bus connections through nearby Sausalito, Mill Valley's combination of redwood-forest proximity, a genuinely walkable small-town downtown, and an internationally attended film festival has made it one of the most distinctive small communities anywhere in Marin County.
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Los Gatos, CA
Los Gatos sits at the southwestern edge of Silicon Valley in Santa Clara County, where the flat valley floor gives way to the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, giving the town a more wooded, hillside character than the flatter suburban sprawl found in much of the rest of the South Bay. Netflix has been headquartered in Los Gatos since 1999, and the company's continued presence has made the small town, with a population of under 35,000, home to one of the most globally recognized media and technology company headquarters located outside a major city center. The town's downtown historic district, built around Santa Cruz Avenue and North Santa Cruz Avenue, has preserved a substantial stock of early-20th-century commercial buildings, giving Los Gatos a walkable, small-town commercial core that's stood in deliberate contrast to the larger, more corporate office-park development found in neighboring Silicon Valley cities. Los Gatos's combination of foothill scenery at the edge of the Santa Cruz Mountains, a major global technology and media company headquarters in Netflix, and a well-preserved historic downtown has made it one of the more distinctive and consistently expensive small towns anywhere in the South Bay.
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