Town of Atherton
About Atherton
Atherton is located on the peninsula nestled between the San Francisco Bay and
the Pacific Ocean. The Town begins in the flatlands then moves westward to the
hills, until it reaches Highway 280. Beautiful foliage, elegant gardens and
heritage trees dominate this quiet small community.
The Town of Atherton desires, insofar as possible, to preserve its character as
a scenic, rural, thickly-wooded, residential area, with abundant open space with
streets designed primarily as scenic routes rather than for speed of travel.
