page_title: Purisima Creek (Santa Clara County)
section_title: Watershed and course
hierarchical_section_title: Purisima Creek (Santa Clara County) / Watershed and course
caption_attribution_description: English: Purisima Creek (Adobe Creek tributary) by the town's Packard Pathway at Elena Road, Los Altos Hills
context_page_description: Purisima Creek is a 2-mile-long eastward-flowing stream originating in Los Altos Hills in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is a tributary of Adobe Creek which it joins just after entering Los Altos.
context_section_description: Purisima Creek consists of two minor forks (a north and west fork) which embrace the apricot orchards now owned by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The creek's source is at the top of the west fork between Dezahara Way and Altamont Road. The "Packard Pathway" is a public walking and riding path that descends the north fork from its origin below the Packards' Taafe House on Taafe Road. At the base of the property the two forks come together to form the creek mainstem which levels out as it passes through the remains of an old walnut grove, then crosses Elena Road, flowing along Josefa Lane and the northwestern edge of Foothill College to where it passes under I-280, then along O'Keefe Lane and the O'Keefe Open Space Preserve to its confluence with Adobe Creek just inside Los Altos.
caption: Purisima Creek at the bottom of the Packard Pathway at Elena Road, Los Altos Hills
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