Almaden Lake is the only park in San Jose with a sandy beach and swim area. Fishing and paddle boating are among its other recreational uses.
The water is shallow at the shoreline, but it plunges to depths of 43 and 36 feet respectively in two spots. That's because it was formerly a quarry operation that began in the late 1940s, before it opened to the public as a park in 1982. A gravel berm separates the two holes, and occasionally you can see egrets standing on it fishing.
Almaden Lake Park is 65 acres and the surface area of the water is 25 acres.
Easy three mile run.
[Photo: Sandy beach. Click photo to enlarge.]
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