Question: Do you consider Vallejo the East Bay or the North Bay?

[Malloric]

Originally Posted by fred9

My 2 cents. Vallejo is east of San Pablo bay.

And San Rafeal is south of the San Pablo Bay. That doesn't mean it's part of the South Bay.

[clongirl]

Originally Posted by Malloric

Yes.

Culturally Vallejo is more East Bay though.

Yeah it totally feels just Lafayette, Orinda, Danville and San Ramon!

[PixelatedTherapy]

Originally Posted by clongirl

Yeah it totally feels just Lafayette, Orinda, Danville and San Ramon!

LOL! I think they were comparing it more to Oakland, Richmond, Pittsburg, Hayward.

[marcopolo666]

Solano county is north bay - always has been (says this 4th generation Californian born in Richmond, whose dad was born in SF, and mom in Berkeley). Solano, Napa, Sonoma, and Marin are ALL north bay.

[marcopolo666]

Originally Posted by clongirl

Santa Cruz is due east of Gilroy. It's not highlighted in a color on this map, so I'm not sure what you mean. It does look they cut of part of Sonoma Co, however.

Um, you need to check your directions. Santa Cruz (where I lived for 4-5 years) is WEST of Gilroy.

And Santa Cruz in NOT part of the Bay Area - there are 9 BA counties : Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco. If the county doesn't have land that touches the Bay, it isn't part of the Bay Area.

[clongirl]

Originally Posted by marcopolo666

Um, you need to check your directions. Santa Cruz (where I lived for 4-5 years) is WEST of Gilroy.

And Santa Cruz in NOT part of the Bay Area - there are 9 BA counties : Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco. If the county doesn't have land that touches the Bay, it isn't part of the Bay Area.

Lol.. yeah. Your right. I miswrote that. It is due WEST, not east.

I know Santa Cruz is not part of the Bay Area. I didn’t write or ever imply that, however.

[DenniMac]

Vallejo, Ca. has always been identified as being in the SF Bay Area’s North Bay.

[Chimérique]

NORTH BAY, Think of it like this:

Marin and Sonoma counties are directly North of the City(SF), and you have to cross a TOLL bridge(Golden Gate), a body of water, to get there. Hence why it's called the North Bay.

The other North Bay counties: Solano and Napa are directly North of the urban East Bay(Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley-Richmond), and you have to cross a TOLL bridge(Cariqunez Bridge), a body of water (the Carquinez Straight) to get there. Hence why it's called the North Bay.

Vallejo is in Solano County, a county that IS NORTH of the Bay, and much of the entire Bay Area.

Solano and Napa Counties are not only NORTH of the East Bay. Those counties are also North of the entire Bay Area.

I get why one thinks of Vallejo as the East Bay to a certain extent, but that body of water, and that TOLL bridge really cut it off from the rest of the East Bay and SF, and much of the rest of the Bay Area...

AND Vallejo has NO direct BART TRAIN connection........the thing that really connects Vallejo to the BAY, literally, and to SF, is the Vallejo FERRY.

Another thing: Vallejo (Solano County) is directly connected by highway with the other North Bay counties: Marin and Sonoma, NO TOLL bridges required, all NORTH of the East Bay and SF.

It takes TWO TOLL Bridges to get you to SF from Vallejo: the "the other North Bay Bridge" aka the Carquinez Bridge which brings you into the East Bay, and then the "East Bay Bridge" aka the Bay Bridge which takes you from the East Bay to SF.

[RMESMH]

Originally Posted by artemis78

North Bay. You have to cross the Carquinez. The League of California Cities also uses that as its division for regional organizations--Martinez is an East Bay member, and Vallejo is a North Bay member. (Also, Solano vs. Contra Costa.)

This ^^^^^.