WC Walkers View Shadelands & Woodlands

Some 50 strode with determination around Shadelands and Woodlands neighborhoods Saturday morning.

It's the regular Second Saturday walk with Mayor Bob Simmons playing master of ceremonies, passing along some history, natural and human — four or five miles worth.

The Woodlands residential neighborhood was walnut orchards and ranches a half-century ago, he said. used to be a lumberyard. On Saturday, Girl Scout Troop 30468 from North Creek Academy, selling Girl Scout cookies at Citrus Plaza, got an unexpected sales boost from the Walnut Creek Walkers.

The Shadelands business park started out with research firms but started attracting medical offices heavily in the 1990s, Simmons said. The city is now in the middle of.

The route of Ygnacio Valley Road — now the locus of motorists with interesting ideas about high-speed lane shifts — was the stagecoach route out to the Delta in the 1800s, Simmons said.