Style: | Amtrak |
Santa Clara–Great America | |
Address: | 5099 Stars & Stripes Drive |
Borough: | Santa Clara, California |
Country: | United States |
Coordinates: | 37.4066°N -121.9669°W |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 14 |
Line: | UP Coast Subdivision |
Connections: | (at Lick Mill station) VTA Bus: Altamont Corridor Express shuttles |
Platform: | 1 side platform |
Tracks: | 1 |
Parking: | 189 spaces[1] |
Bicycle: | 12 lockers[2] |
Opened: | May 21, 1993 |
Accessible: | Yes |
Owned: | City of Santa Clara and Union Pacific Railroad[3] |
Santa Clara–Great America station (called Great America station by ACE) is a train station in Santa Clara, California. It hosts Amtrak's Capitol Corridor trains and Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) trains. The station is close to Levi's Stadium and California's Great America. Of the 75 California stations served by Amtrak, Great America was the 20th-busiest in FY2019, boarding or detraining an average of about 533 passengers daily.
Great America was proposed as a station for the new service in 1990.[4] The Capitols began operation in 1991; Santa Clara–Great America station opened as an infill station on May 21, 1993.[5]
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) provides connecting shuttles to employers in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Milpitas, and North San Jose.[6]
The station does not offer direct access to the VTA light rail, but the system's Lick Mill station is located to the east and Great America station is (located at the California's Great America theme park) is to the west.