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Blackhawk

Blackhawk is an unincorporated master planned community located in Contra Costa County, California, east of Danville. It is divided into six individual gated communities scattered along Blackhawk Rd, connected by a 3-mile (4.8 km) long jogging trail.

  * Hidden Oaks consists of 206 homes and in 1978 was the first Blackhawk community to be completed. Most homes are half an acre.
  * Oakridge, consists of medium sized homes ranging from 2000 to 3,000 square feet, though a few large estates reside on the top of a private court.
  * Saddleback, the second community completed, is home to some of the most lavish homes in the entire Blackhawk development, most lots being no less than 5 acres in size.
  * Silveroak, is an upscale condo complex.
  * Silvermaple, is designed around one of the main Blackhawk Country Clubs’s golf holes, though no roads connect it to the rest of the main Blackhawk Country Club. It consists of medium sized homes.
  * Blackhawk Country Club (“Main Gates”) is the largest of the six communities.

Opened in 1979, Blackhawk Country Club is a highly exclusive 4,800 acre country club community at the base of Mt. Diablo where luxurious residential neighborhoods are surrounded by thousands of acres of permanent open lands.

Blackhawk Plaza is a shopping center located outside the Blackhawk Country Club. It includes retail stores, restaurants, a movie theater and two museums, including the Blackhawk Museum.