Sunnyvale, CA
Sunnyvale — McKinley Target
298 W McKinley Ave · Target
Context Glow
69
Lived score 68, then +0.5 from the citywide crime rate.
Solo after dark
60
3.0 / 5 on the question we ask with women traveling alone at night in mind. Anyone can answer from the stop they made. This is still the first look — the crowd hasn't weighed in.
Seven ways a lot can feel off
- Lanterns4.0 / 5
Canopy, storefront, and the stall row itself after dark.
- Company3.0 / 5
Other people, open businesses, and eyes on the lot — versus a highway island.
- Solo after dark3.0 / 5
Would you charge here alone at night? Rated with women traveling solo in mind, and from the stop you actually made.
- Leave it3.0 / 5
Smash-and-grab and cut-cable feel. Five means you'd leave a bag in the car; one means you wouldn't.
- Unbothered4.0 / 5
Whether people come to the window, ask for money, or linger at the stalls.
- The walk4.0 / 5
Restroom, coffee, food: how far, how lit, and whether it's open when you arrive.
- The lot3.0 / 5
Sightlines, cameras, which row is the dark one, and whether the exit is obvious.
First look
Target lot at 298 West McKinley. In ordinary life this is a flat suburban yard with a store attached. In April 2025, KRON reported that eight of the ten cables here were cut and stolen over a weekend. Tesla had them back the same day cameras showed up. So: a calm lot with a real cable-theft history. Park close to the storefront. If you arrive to cut cables, the El Camino and Mathilda sites are other Sunnyvale options.
Wattfolk's read of the setting, written for a first visit. It is not a police score, and traveler notes below can move it.
City around the lot
- Population
- 150,893
- Violent / 100k, 2024
- 245
- Property / 100k, 2024
- 1,909
- Murder / 100k
- 1
0.7× the US rate
near the US rate
A low violent rate and a property rate near the US estimate. The cable theft on file is a stall event, not the citywide pattern.
Source: FBI UCR 2024, transcribed from Wikipedia's List of United States cities by crime rate (the 200 largest reporting cities).
US estimates used for the nudge: 359 violent and 1760 property crimes per 100,000 in 2024 (USAFacts, from FBI national estimates). A city rate is not this parking row.
In the news log
- Cable theftWeekend of April 5, 2025
Eight cables cut at the McKinley Target
KRON4 reported that eight of ten cables at the Target Supercharger, 298 West McKinley Avenue, were cut and stolen over the weekend before April 7, 2025. Police treated it as theft. Tesla had repaired the stalls by the time a crew arrived that afternoon.
KRON4
Traveler notes
Nobody has written on this stall yet. Regulars usually know which door actually opens after ten.
Wattfolk is an independent field guide, not Tesla. Tesla's own site says 80,000+ Superchargers worldwide. The pins here are the open sites in the supercharge.info directory of that network, with stall counts from the same list. A Glow is a first look or a traveler score. Other pins show a paper score: the citywide crime rate, plus any verified news at that exact site. A blank 60 means neither was on file. It is not a review of the lot. Crime figures are citywide rates, not the parking lot. The news log is reported incidents, not a complete record.