
Mountain View is one in a string of cities running down the peninsula, from Redwood City, to Menlo Park, to Palo Alto, to Mountain View, to Sunnyvale, to Santa Clara, and finally to San Jose. Adjacent to these cities, and nestled closer to the Santa Cruz mountains, are Woodside, Stanford, Los Altos, Cupertino, Campbell, and Los Gatos. Apple was founded in Los Altos and is now headquartered in Cupertino.