Interest Points

Hayward Attractions & Points of Interest

-- Agave Garden

-- All Saints Church

-- Annabelle Candy Company (home of Rocky Road, since 1965)

-- B Street

-- Bay Hayward ‘Beach’

-- Bay Trail

-- Bell Plastics (home of Big Mike, Spiderman and the Doggie Diner head)

-- The Bistro (original home of SF Beer Week)

-- Books on B

-- Buffalo Bill's (first/oldest working Brewpub in our USA, since 1978)

-- Cal State University EBHayward

-- California Air National Guard Armory

-- *El Camino Real Bell

-- Casper’s Hot Dogs

-- Century Theaters (Downtown and Southland)

-- Chabot College

-- Church of Christ South Hayward (1954)

-- City Hall

-- City Hall, 1931

-- The Cobbler’s (oldest store, since 1958)

-- Los Compadres Restaurant (the second oldest restaurant in Hayward, since 1966)

-- Don Castro Regional Park

-- Douglas Morrison Theatre

-- Eden Congregational Church

-- The Eden Landing Ecological Reserve Salt Ponds/Leslie Salt Flats

-- Eden Youth & Family Center

-- Farmer’s Market (every Saturday)

-- Five Corners Park

-- Fry’s Mansion 

-- Garin Regional Park

-- Green Shutter Hotel (since 1925)

-- Hayward Area Historical Society

-- The Hayward Fault

-- Hayward ‘H’ Historical Park (photo) 

-- Hayward San Mateo Bridge (1929)

-- Hayward Shoreline

-- Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center

-- Heritage Plaza

-- Hermann Mohr/Cronin House

-- Holy Sepulchre Cemetery

-- Japanese Garden

-- Jordan Pond

-- John O’Lague Gallery at City Hall

-- The Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail (Mission Blvd. and City Center Drive)

-- Kennedy Park

-- Lone Tree Cemetery

-- McConaghy House

-- Meek Mansion (our oldest house is the Meek Mansion, 1869)

-- Memorial Park

-- The Mexican Restaurant & Bar (largest tequila selection in Hayward)

-- Mia’s Dream Park

-- Mission Hills of Hayward Golf Course

-- Most Southern point of the Lincoln Highway (C and Watkins Sts.)

-- Mount St. Joseph/Pioneer Cemetery (an Historic Site, established in 1876)

-- Mt. Eden Mansion

-- Municipal Airport

-- Murals

-- Nine Eleven Memorial

-- Park Elementary School (oldest year round school in our USA)

-- The Plunge

-- Portuguese Park

-- Post Office on C St. (since 1931)

-- Public Library

-- Shasta Beverages (since 1889)

-- Shoreline Interpretive Center

-- Solar Farm (1MW)

-- Southland Mall (second mall built in the USA, and the first with a Food Court)

-- St. Rose Hospital (since  1966)

-- Stonebrae Golf Course

-- Sulphur Creek Nature Center

-- Sun Gallery

-- Tennyson Rd. (Over 150 businesses here, and not a single empty store front. It's an economic engine for our fine City.)

-- Totem Pole at Weeke’s Park (carved in 1964, by Cherokee Ralph Gallagher from what was the oldes Sequoia Tree in the Bay Area, and was in Hayward)

-- Ukraina Ranch (founded in 1873 by Reverend Agapius Honcharenko)

-- Val’s (listed as best hamburgers in the East Bay, and our oldest restaurant, since 1958)

-- Veteran’s Memorial Hall

-- Water Tower

-- Weeke’s Park & Library

-- World’s Faire Donuts (listed as best donuts in the East Bay)

-- World Famous Turf Club

* El Camino Real Bell. “On June 7th, 1914, the Hill and Valley Club gathered here at the Hayward Plaza to dedicate a gift to the City of Hayward and the State of California. Their gift was a bell, similar to this replica, marking the historic El Camino Real or “Royal Road”. 
            It was one of a series of bells that were erected starting in 1906. The bell cost the club $27. The El Camino Real itself was a system of roads that linked California’s network of Franciscan Missions. It is this road that connected Mission San Jose, built in 1797, with the Hayward area and the rest of California. And it is why the road linking Hayward and Fremont was renamed Mission Boulevard in the late 1950s.
            There is no doubt that Hayward’s location along this road drove much of the early settlement and development of the community. That original bell stood in commemoration for several decades. Sometime during the intervening years the bell was stolen. In 1996, the Hill and Valley Club began planning and researching for a replacement of the original 1914 bell.
            In 1998, a new bell, this time costing $500, was dedicated. Now, 106 years after the original was placed here, a bell is once again erected in commemoration of the old Mission Road that connected Hayward to the rest of the state and beyond. Information provided by the Hayward Area Historical Society.”
            The bell was taken down in 2020. It now sits in the Hayward Area Historical Society Museum. 

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