Visited on 3/29/2019 while on a weekend camping trip adventure to the South Bay Area, we camped at Coyote Lake near Gilroy. Jeff and our two Chocolate Labs, Summer and Skye joined us on our adventure of several lakes in the area. Stevens Creek Reservoir is located 365 feet above sea level along a creek that bares it’s name and is about two miles southwest of town of Cupertino. Stevens Creek is a 92 acre reservoir which was originally known as Arroyo de San José Cupertino. The stream now bears the name of an early settler, Captain Elishia Stephens, a South Carolinian, who led the first successful passage of wagons over the Sierra Nevada in 1844. Stevens Creek dam and reservoir is one of six original systems approved for construction by voters in 1934. It was completed in 1935. In 1985, an additional 231,000 cubic yards of material was added to the dam, raising it 10 feet.
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