Explore Baywood Park, California, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Baywood Park, California. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of California or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Baywood Park.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Baywood Park |
| State | California (CA) |
| County | San Mateo County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) |
| Latitude | 37.529194 |
| Longitude | -122.341666 |
| Population | 1,693 |
| Density | 1190.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 93402, 94402 |
| Area Code | 805, 510 |
| County Seat | Redwood City |
| School District | San Mateo Union High School District |
Baywood Park emerges from the landscape as a quiet confluence of suburban order and the persistent, unmanaged vitality of the natural world. It lies 2.5 miles south-southwest of San Mateo, CA (from San Mateo, CA: bearing 206°T), and is situated 6.7 miles west-northwest of Redwood City. Polhemus Creek carves a narrow, rhythmic path through the terrain, its seasonal flow acting as a pulse that dictates the hydration of the local soil. To the west, the air carries a faint, salt-crusted memory of the Pacific Ocean, though the water itself remains four miles distant, obscured by the rise of the land. The horizon is punctuated by the distant, hazy silhouette of the Coast Ranges, which catch the fleeting violet hues of dusk before the fog rolls in to settle over the neighborhood. Vegetation here reflects the Mediterranean leanings of the region, where golden, tinder-dry grasses stand in stark contrast to the occasional, deep-rooted oak that suggests a landscape once defined by savanna.
Baywood Park maintains a character that balances the quietude of its residential corridors with its proximity to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which serves as a constant, protected boundary against encroaching development. History here is marked by the slow transformation of the land from open, arid stretches into a space defined by the human imprint of roads and homes, all while the nearby Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir provides a still, blue anchor to the local geography. Economic life in Baywood Park is tethered to the broader regional flow, with residents moving daily toward the hubs of industry that sit like islands in the surrounding basin. Those who seek to engage with the wilder elements of the geography often look toward the distant ridges, leaving the immediate vicinity to the rhythm of domestic life and the subtle, shifting light that defines the afternoon in this corner of the state.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Baywood Park, California. Coordinates: 37.529194, -122.341666. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Baywood Park includes the ZIP code (93402, 94402), telephone area code (805, 510), county seat of San Mateo County (Redwood City), and school district assignment (San Mateo Union High School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |