It is located between Mission Peak (to its west) and Sunol Regional Wilderness (to its east).

[1] The Ohlone Wilderness Trail passes through two areas that belong to the San Francisco Water Department.

Otherwise, they may be cited and fined for trespassing on SFWD property and potentially jeopardize public use of the corridors.

[2] For generations, the land had been inhabited by Chochenyo language Ohlone-speaking Taunans.

The first white settlers, Patrick and Mary Ann Geary, started a homestead here in the 1860s.