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La Honda (Spanish for "The Sling") [5] is a census-designated place (CDP) in southern San Mateo County, California, United States. [2] The population was 979 at the 2020 census . It is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains between the Santa Clara Valley and California's Pacific coast.
The northernmost portion of the Santa Cruz Mountains, north of Half Moon Bay Road (), is known as Montara Mountain; the middle portion is the Sierra Morena, which includes a summit called Sierra Morena, [3] and extends south to a gap at Lexington Reservoir; south of the gap, the mountain range is known as the Sierra Azul.
La Honda Creek is a 7 miles (11 km) long stream on the Pacific slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains and is a tributary of San Gregorio Creek. [3] From its source near Bear Gulch Road and Skyline Boulevard (CA 35) in San Mateo County, California, La Honda Creek's water flow south to its confluence with Alpine Creek to form San Gregorio Creek in La Honda, and thence to the Pacific
Punta de la Concepcion: 1837 Juan Alvarado: Anastasio Jose Carrillo: 24,992 acres (10,114 ha) 118 SD Point Conception: Santa Barbara: San Julian: 1837 Juan Alvarado: José de la Guerra y Noriega: 48,222 acres (19,515 ha) 10 SD Lompoc: Santa Barbara: Sausal Redondo (1822), 1837 Juan Alvarado: Antonio Ygnacio Avila: 22,458 acres (9,088 ha) 354 SD ...
Young owned Broken Arrow Ranch, a property of about 1,000 acres [210] near La Honda, California, which he purchased in 1970 for US$350,000 (US$2.7 million in 2023 dollars); [79] the property was subsequently expanded to thousands of acres. [211] [212] He moved out and gave Pegi Young the ranch after their divorce in 2014. Young's son Ben lives ...
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Maps recorded as early as 1909 show it as Sky L'onda apparently derived from the crossroad names Skyline Boulevard and Woodside-La Honda Road. The 7.5-minute quadrangle, Woodside, California, (1994), shows Woodside VOR north of the settlement. The aircraft navigation facility is shown as being outfitted with distance measuring equipment.
[4] [5] The focal point of the camp is its large old western style lodge now named the Malibu Lodge after the Malibu Lodge #566 of the Order of the Arrow. In January 2005, a flood washed out the main road into Camp Josepho. The camp remained closed for less than a month, reopening (to backpacking) in February 2005.