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Summit is a small unincorporated community more frequently referred to by locals as the Loma Prieta Community located partially in Santa Clara County, but predominantly in Santa Cruz County, California, in the mountain ranges of the Santa Cruz Mountains. It lies at the summit along Highway 17 from which is gets its name.
The California Highway Patrol have paid special attention to the area. In 1986, 240 customers were cited in a single day. [14] In 1989, the CHP established a roadblock to crack down on illegal motorcycle racing near The Rock Store.
Los Gatos is Spanish for "The Cats". [10] The name derives from the 1839 Alta California land grant that encompassed the area, which was called La Rinconada de Los Gatos ("The Corner of the Cats"), where the cats refers to the cougars (mountain lions) and bobcats that are indigenous to the foothills in which the town is located.
The seven-mile (11 km) section from Saratoga Village to the Saratoga Gap is notable for the number of bicycles climbing the hill on weekend mornings. Since 1978, the highway between downtown Saratoga and downtown Los Gatos is the route for the popular "Great Race", when over 1,000 participants run between the two towns near the end of April. [7]
Dio Deka is a restaurant in Los Gatos, California. [1] The restaurant serves Greek /Hellenic/ Mediterranean cuisine and has received a Michelin star. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Bay Wheels is the first regional and large-scale bicycle sharing system deployed in California and on the West Coast of the United States. It was established as Bay Area Bike Share in August 2013. As of January 2018, the Bay Wheels system had over 2,600 bicycles in 262 stations across San Francisco, East Bay and San Jose. [1]
The Bywater is a casual, New Orleans-inspired restaurant located in Los Gatos, California. The restaurant was founded in 2016 by chef David Kinch, the owner and chef of Michelin 3-star-rated Manresa, also located in Los Gatos. [1] [2] The name of the restaurant is a reference to the New Orleans neighborhood of the same name. [3]
The origins of Los Angeles’ Bicycle Kitchen date back to 2002, when a tiny bicycle repair workshop was set up in an unused apartment in an intentional community known as the Los Angeles Eco-Village. a resident and local bicycle messenger, cooked food and encouraged others to join him for evenings of bikes, pizza, and beer.