Foster City, San Mateo County, California, USA

Foster City is a community in San Mateo County, California, set within California’s Pacific-facing valleys, coastal ranges and metropolitan corridors. Foster City is a planned community built on engineered land along San Francisco Bay, organized around lagoons and waterfront neighborhoods. Indigenous communities, Spanish and Mexican settlement, railroads and twentieth-century growth all left their mark, and later roads broadened the community’s ties to the region. Technology, trade, education, manufacturing, agriculture and tourism shape contemporary life. Local traditions and access to the outdoors add another dimension to life in Foster City.