Stanford Dish, Palo Alto

Name: Stanford Dish
Address: Palo Alto, United States

#4 among attractions in Palo Alto

Museum, Observatories and planetariums

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The Dish, also known as the Stanford Dish, is a radio antenna in the Stanford foothills. The 150-foot-diameter dish was built in 1961 by the Stanford Research Institute. The cost to construct the antenna was $4.5 million, and was funded by the United States Air Force. In the 1960s the Dish was used to provide information on Soviet radar installations by detecting radio signals bounced off the moon. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 37°24'30"N, 122°10'44"W

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Stanford Dish – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: White Memorial Fountain, Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden, Old Union Fountain, Lake Lagunita.

1.3 miNE
Monuments and statues
White Memorial Fountain, Palo Alto
33 min walk • White Memorial Fountain, also known as The Claw, is a fountain by Aristides Demetrios on the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California, United States. It was installed in 1964, and Demetrios returned to restore the fountain in 2011. It has 65 jets. The fountain was commissioned by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond B.
1.2 miN
Park, Garden
Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden, Palo Alto
30 min walk • In 1994, Jim Mason, a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University, arranged for two groups of men from the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea to carve the New Guinea Sculpture Garden at Stanford University. The men were from several communities or villages of the Iatmul people and the Kwoma people.
1.3 miNE
Fountain
Old Union Fountain, Palo Alto
33 min walk • Old Union Fountain is a fountain on the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California, United States. The fountain exhibits traditional mission style architecture, and is one of several on campus used in the tradition of "fountain hopping".
1.2 miN
Nature, Lake, Natural attraction
Lake Lagunita, Palo Alto
30 min walk • Lake Lagunita, informally referred to as Lake Lag, is an artificial dry lake in Stanford University, California, located on the western side of the Stanford campus near the Lagunita residences.
1 miNE
Architecture, Historical place
Hanna–Honeycomb House, Palo Alto
25 min walk • The Hanna–Honeycomb House, also known as simply the Hanna House, located on the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California, United States, was Frank Lloyd Wright's first work in the Bay Area and his first work with non-rectangular structures.
1.4 miNE
Area
Stanford, Palo Alto
37 min walk • Stanford is a census-designated place in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States and is the home of Stanford University. The population was 21,150 at the 2020 census. Stanford is an unincorporated area of Santa Clara County and is adjacent to the city of Palo Alto.
1.3 miNE
Tower
Stanford Clock Tower, Palo Alto
34 min walk • The Stanford Clock Tower with its attached, colonnaded pergola is located at the so-called “Circle of Death” at the corner of Escondido and Lasuen Malls on the campus of Stanford University. It was built in 1983 by a donation from trustee William Kimball.
1.3 miNE
Library
Meyer Green, Palo Alto
35 min walk • The J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library was a library at Stanford University in California. It was dedicated on December 2, 1966. In 2007, a seismic assessment identified $45 million in required retrofits, more than the cost of a new library elsewhere on campus.
1.5 miNE
Romanesque architecture
Toyon Hall, Palo Alto
38 min walk • Toyon Hall is an all-sophomore dormitory at Stanford University. Its Romanesque and Mediterranean Revival Style residence halls originally housed 150 men, but today Toyon is a co-ed dorm housing 158 residents.
1.2 miNE
Student center
Haas Center for Public Service, Palo Alto
31 min walk • The Haas Center for Public Service, formerly the Stanford Public Service Center, is the public service center on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California.
1.4 miNE
Library
Lane Medical Library, Palo Alto
35 min walk • Lane Medical Library is the library of the Stanford University School of Medicine at Stanford University, near Palo Alto, California.