Claremont - The City of Trees and PHDs
Claremont is a city in eastern Los Angeles County, California, USA, about 30 miles (45 km) east of downtown Los Angeles at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains in the Pomona Valley. Claremont is known for its seven higher-education institutions, its tree-lined streets, and historic buildings. Due to the large number of trees and residents with advanced degrees who live in Claremont, it is known as "The City of Trees and PhD's".
Claremont is primarily residential, with commercial activity centered around The Village (as it is known to most residents), a popular collection of street-front small stores, boutiques, offices, and restaurants westerly adjacent to The Claremont Colleges. The Village hopes to see even more business with the 2007 completion of a multi-use development including a cinema, a luxury hotel, retail space, offices, and parking structure on the site of an old citrus packing plant just west of Indian Hill Blvd. Several automobile dealerships are located south of the San Bernardino Freeway.
The orange groves and open space which once dominated the northern portion of the city have been replaced by new residential developments of large homes. Construction of Stone Canyon Preserve, one of the final tract residential developments in the north of the city, commenced in 2003, as part of a complicated agreement between Pomona College and the City of Claremont which resulted in the creation of a 1,740 acre wilderness park. The foothills also include the Padua Hills Theatre, an historic site constructed in the late 1920's.
Claremont has been a winner of National Arbor Day Association's Tree City USA award for 19 consecutive years.
Points of Interest:
John R. Rodman Arboretum
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
Source: City of Claremont, Wikipedia Encyclopedia and Pitzer College
