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The Stanford Redwood City campus is a landscape designed to be functional and beautiful. This self-guided walk will take you through some of its interesting features, revealing the story and purpose behind the plants, paths, and plazas. Start at Stanford Square and follow the map.

Begin your walk in Stanford Square. The shade comes from large Coast Live Oaks, chosen deliberately: they recall the natural oak drifts that covered Stanford campus long before the University existed.
As you stand here, look down at the pavement. The swirling design is a Fibonacci pattern, inspired by the spirals found in a Redwood cone. It’s a subtle but significant detail that conceptually links the campus to both Redwood City and Stanford’s iconic “El Palo Alto” tree.
The palms lining that axis down Warrington are doing wayfinding work, similar to the Palm Drive on Stanford Campus: they announce the entry into the space.

From Stanford Square, make your way to the wide, meandering path known as the Greenway. This path is the primary artery of the campus landscape, designed to serve as both a linear park and an effective stormwater management system. 
The green space holds and moves substantial volumes of water during a storm, and then appears as a linear park during the dry months. The gentle topography is graded, shaped to direct runoff exactly where it needs to go. The changing perspectives are a happy consequence of engineering.

As you walk along the greenway, pay attention to the large, rolling mounds of grass. This is Festuca rubra, also known as "no-mow" fescue. It was chosen as a durable, low-water, and even walkable alternative to a traditional lawn. Its long, fine blades create a lush, meadow-like effect, adding texture and color that you can see under the olive and paperbark trees.

Walk towards Stanford Commons, and you will encounter the campus bioswales hidden among the bushes. These shallow, landscaped depressions are more than just decoration; they are hardworking stormwater basins. Filled with sandy, fast-draining soils and filled with specially selected low-water-use plants, they are designed to capture, treat, and slowly filter rainwater runoff. This is an example of how the landscape serves a critical environmental function.

Notice the variety of shrubs and grasses along the entire path -- The landscape designers chose each plant for a specific purpose. Some are chosen for height and density to screen views of the parking structures. As you arrive at Academy Hall, spot the boxwood rows near the entrance. They buffer the area from traffic on Barron Ave, turning an exposed edge into a usable outdoor room. And the olive trees around the outdoor dining area, many of them transplanted from elsewhere on the site rather than brought in new, bring warmth and human scale.

With inputs from Zach Pozner, Director of Architecture and Campus Planner, LBRE, and Andrew Brown, Landscape Architect/Campus Planner, LBRE

Back-to-School Drive
Help support local students get ready for school by donating supplies. List of items in event webpage.
🗓 Monday, August 3 - Friday, August 14
📍Cardinal Hall, University Hall, and Academy Hall lobbies

SRWC Blood Drive
Donate and get a San Francisco Giants/Stanford Blood Center jersey. 
🗓 Tuesday, August 18 | 🕒 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 
📍Cardinal Hall, Conference Room C104/C105

To know what's happening on the Stanford campus, visit the Stanford Events Calendar.

Keeping Plazas and Water Points tidy

To keep our spaces welcoming and our plumbing happy, please remember to carefully sort your waste into the correct compost, recycling, and landfill bins. Additionally, be sure to scrape all leftover food directly into the compost bin before rinsing your plates. The sink's garbage disposal is intended only for catching tiny, residual crumbs, so please avoid dumping full plates of food down the drain to prevent unpleasant clogs. Thank you for doing your part to keep SRWC clean and green!

Reserving meeting rooms

Need a quick huddle space or a larger room for a team gathering? Most of our campus meeting rooms are open for immediate walk-up use or can be booked directly through Outlook. However, our larger specialty rooms, managed by SRWC Operations, require an Event Service Request.:

- Academy Hall A250 (Accommodates up to 30 people depending on configuration)

- University Hall U387 (Accommodates up to 20 people; features sliding glass doors that open directly onto the Plaza)

Missing something?

If you've misplaced an item on the SRWC campus, we're here to help! Please email srwc-lobbies@stanford.edu and include your full name, contact info, and a detailed description of the item (including exactly where and when you last saw it).

Call 650.723.7792 for urgent requests only. 

Dave Allen, NY NY Dueling Pianos at 2026 SRWC Summer Social

 What a turnout! A massive thank you to everyone who stepped away from their desks to celebrate with us at the SRWC Summer Social. We had an absolute blast catching up over drinks and bites, and listening the song-requests.

To see more of the highlights captured by the photographer, Sam Fontejon, or to help us make future events even better, click the buttons below.

If you’ve dined at Cardinal Café recently, you might have noticed some unusual signs suggesting that your Wi-Fi speeds, elevator functionality, and even your food temperature are directly tied to how well you sort your trash. While we can’t actually link composting to a faster internet connection, the humor behind these signs was part of a clever experiment—and it worked!

Sustainable Stanford Living Lab Fellow Matthew Mettias set out to discover how humor and novelty impact our sustainability habits. By introducing these playful signs and adding a “green” pledge to the ordering screens, Matthew aimed to make the daily routine of waste disposal a little more memorable.

The campaign was a massive success, resulting in a 10% improvement in waste sorting! A huge thank you to everyone at Cardinal Café who took the pledge and continues to do their part in keeping food and compostable food ware out of the landfill.

This year’s Wellness Fair is all about connection. Come and engage with benefits providers, wellness resources, and colleagues.

The fair creates a timely opportunity to learn about preventive care, prepare for Open Enrollment, take part in wellness activities, and enjoy spending time connecting with your colleagues.Wear anything with the BeWell name or logo on it to the event and get a raffle entry. 

If your department budgets for or manages IT services, we encourage you to review the updated rates to understand how they may affect your planning and expenses.