About
Made in Los Gatos is a local guide to one town in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains: its shops, makers, tasting rooms, food, places to stay, history and stories.
What Made In is
Made In is a family of city guides from Good Neighbor, the Bay Area city guide created by Joelle. Each Made In site celebrates one town: the people who grow, bake, brew, pour and build things there, and the places worth a stop. See the Good Neighbor guide.
Made in Los Gatos is built with Bossreach, which gathers the directory and runs the site’s content system, and draws its puzzles from the playbook of Bossfeed.
How the listings are made
The directory starts from public sources: OpenStreetMap, local listings and each business’s own website. Descriptions are short and factual and come from what a business says about itself; review lines are quoted word for word with a link to where they were posted.
Is your business here, missing, or out of date? Use Claim or update this listing on its page, or write to us. Listing is free.
Photo credits
Lexington Reservoir and the Santa Cruz Mountains seen from El Sereno — Brholden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Geese grazing on the meadow at Vasona Lake County Park — Gregory Ford Henderson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Los Gatos Theatre and its tower sign on North Santa Cruz Avenue — Ramkumar Menon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The corner of Main Street and Santa Cruz Avenue, with palms and the turret of the La Cañada Building — Ramkumar Menon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The brick La Cañada Building with its witch-hat corner turret — Ramkumar Menon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
North Santa Cruz Avenue under shade trees, with the foothills beyond — Ramkumar Menon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tall redwoods and lawn at Town Plaza — roarofthefour, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The 1920 First National Bank building on West Main Street — Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Victorian house with a wide porch on Tait Avenue in Almond Grove — Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A gabled Victorian house with a flower garden on Fairview Plaza — Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A two-story Italianate house among roses on Broadway — Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A white bungalow with a sunroom on Glen Ridge Avenue — Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A small gabled cottage with green trim on Edelen Avenue — Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The stone annex of Forbes Mill beside Los Gatos Creek — Martin Worsham, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Forbes Mill around 1900, when the four-story stone mill still stood — Harry Baumgardner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The stone walls and small windows of the Forbes Mill annex — Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A gallery at New Museum Los Gatos — Victoriaahalll, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Los Gatos Library at the Civic Center — Ramkmeno, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The paved Los Gatos Creek Trail under a cloudy sky — Grendelkhan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Walkers on the dirt section of the Los Gatos Creek Trail in the canyon — Elf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A cyclist on the Los Gatos Creek Trail — Grendelkhan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Los Gatos Creek below the hills, with a small dam — Alexey Komarov, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Walkers crossing a covered bridge over Los Gatos Creek — Alexey Komarov, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Vasona Lake under a dark, cloudy sky — bluesbby from Mountain View, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Vasona Reservoir at dusk with the foothills beyond — Alexey Komarov, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad steam engine pulling open cars full of riders — Don DeBold from San Jose, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Painted horses on the W. E. “Bill” Mason Carousel — Gregory Ford Henderson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A red arched footbridge in Vasona Lake County Park — bluesbby from Mountain View, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lexington Reservoir and its wooded hills, seen from beside Highway 17 — Thomson200, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Visitors at an old bridge uncovered when Lexington Reservoir was drained in 2008 — Calbookaddict, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lexington Reservoir from the air, winding between the mountains — Benoît Prieur, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
A dirt trail across the grassy hills of Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve — Thomson200, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Wooded foothills rising above the rooftops of Los Gatos — Ramkumar Menon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rows of vines on a mountain vineyard above Los Gatos — Naotake Murayama, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fog rolling over the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains wine region — Agne27, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The two white cat statues at the gate of the Cats estate — Matthew A. Voorsanger, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
An old linen postcard view over the rooftops of Los Gatos to the hills — Tichnor Brothers, Publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
An old postcard of one of the Cats estate statues — Tichnor Brothers, Publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
A postcard of the little Rinconada station on the Peninsular Railway — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The pagoda roofs of Yung See San Fong in an old photograph — Jane Lidz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Books thrown from the shelves of a Los Gatos shop in the 1989 earthquake — J.K. Nakato, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Illustrations made with AI for this site (no real people or businesses shown): An old small-town main street at golden hour with green foothills behind; Hands sorting freshly picked grapes beside a hillside vineyard; A word search, a pencil, coffee and dried apricots on a picnic table under the oaks; An easel and paints in a small studio.
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