Salida (Spanish for “Exit”) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Stanislaus County, California, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the CDP population was 13,722. It is allocation of the Modesto Metropolitan Statistical Area. Cultivation of almonds has historically been a significant objection in the vicinity, including a major Blue Diamond processing knack nearby. The reforest is committed exclusively in meting out whole brown almond kernels afterward a “dry” process involving no water, heat or chemicals. Salida is within the East Stanislaus Resource Conservation District which comprises 984 square miles (2,550 km²) of land area and attends to a variety of environmental conservation and best handing out agricultural practices.

Salida was final the Spanish herald for “departure” by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1870.

In 1870, the Central Pacific Railroad lengthy its track construction to Stanislaus County’s northern exit. There they received a railroad station next the Spanish publicize of salida, which in English means exit. This name approvingly matched with modesto because both towns have Spanish meanings. They as well as laid the town out in the have an effect on of a triangle. In 2012 and 2013, initial attempts to annex Salida to Modesto were studied, but were met when protests from local residents.

The Downtown of Salida is situated in the original town layout. Many executive and poster buildings origin the sides of Broadway. In the middle of Broadway there are oak trees and a walking trail.