Cordilleras Creek is a 3.8-mile-long (6.1 km)[4] northward-flowing stream originating in the Pulgas Ridge Open Space Preserve in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains.

[1] Simon Theodore Finger settled on the Redwood City side of the creek in 1855 and planted a vineyard as well as olives.

[6] The creek is above ground for its entire length with the exception of culverted sections at road crossings.

[7] From its beginnings in the Pulgas Ridge Open Space Preserve in San Carlos, just northwest of Interstate 280, Cordilleras Creek receives additional tributaries from Edgewood County Park and flows northwesterly along Edgewood Road.

Leidy concluded that there was insufficient information to know whether Cordilleras Creek once supported trout or not.