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English: A locator map showing Monterey County in California. David Benbennick made this map. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps .
On June 19, 1976, the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District opened the Garland Ranch Regional Park. The park district acquired the Garland ranch in March 1975 from William May Garland II for $1.1 million, along with a $250,000 gift from Garland. After Garland died on May 10, 1975, the park district named the park after him. [5]
The 1,534 acres (621 ha) Mill Creek Redwood Preserve is located in Big Sur, California, 6.8 miles (10.9 km) from Highway 1 on Palo Colorado Road. The park is owned by the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District. To alleviate resistance by residents of Palo Colorado Canyon who were concerned about the impact of traffic on the narrow, one-lane ...
Monterey County (/ ˌ m ɒ n t ə ˈ r eɪ / ⓘ MON-tə-RAY), officially the County of Monterey, is a county located on the Pacific coast in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, its population was 439,035. [5] The county's largest city and county seat is Salinas. [6]
Slates Hot Springs (also known as Big Sur Hot Springs, [1] Slate's Hot Springs, [1] Slate's Springs, [2] and Slate's Hot Sulphur Springs [2]) is the site of a hot spring in the Big Sur region of Monterey County, California. [1] It is located 8 miles (13 km) north-northwest of Lopez Point, [2] at an elevation of 118 feet (36 m). [1]
Part of the county's territory went to Del Norte County in 1857, and in 1874 the remainder was divided between Humboldt and Siskiyou counties. Pautah County, California was created in 1852 out of territory which, the state of California assumed, was to be ceded to it by the United States Congress from territory in what is now the state of Nevada.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Monterey County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. [1]
Many coastal peninsulas of California are properly headlands and are often called points, as in Oxford English Dictionary's senses 19b "projecting part of anything of a more or less tapering form...a sharp prominence" and 22 "a promontory or cape; the tip of a piece of land running out to sea...frequently in place names."