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California SR 154 marker sign on San Marcos Pass Road in Santa Barbara It is a two-lane road with some passing lanes, with the highest altitude being 2000 ft. It rivals US 101 for traffic, but it goes through the Los Padres National Forest and the San Marcos Pass .
San Marcos (/ ˌ s æ n ˈ m ɑːr k oʊ s / SAN MAR-kohs; Spanish for "St. Mark") is a city in the North County region of San Diego County, California. As of the 2020 census , the city's population was 94,833.
Lake San Marcos is an unincorporated area of San Diego County, surrounded by the City of San Marcos. It is a resort-based community surrounding the Lake San Marcos reservoir. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.7 km 2).
San Marcos Pass (Chumash: Mistaxiwax) [1] is a mountain pass in the Santa Ynez Mountains in southern California. It is traversed by State Route 154. The pass crosses the Santa Ynez through a southwestern portion of Los Padres National Forest, and connects Los Olivos (and the Santa Ynez Valley) with Santa Barbara, California along the Pacific coast.
San Francisco also broke a daily rainfall record Tuesday with 2.53 inches, eclipsing a record for the day set in 1887. The Russian River in Guerneville hit moderate flood stage early Wednesday ...
Cocos Fire, originally known as the Twin Oaks Fire, [3] was a wildfire that ignited on May 14, 2014 in San Marcos, California, in the hills south of California State University, San Marcos. [4] The Cocos Fire quickly spread into western Escondido. The fire destroyed more than 40 buildings, including a dozen single-family homes. [5]
Tomas Alvarado sold Rancho Vallecitos de San Marcos to Cave Johnson Couts in 1866. [7] Cave Johnson Couts (1821–1874), was a native of Tennessee, and was a nephew of Cave Johnson. Couts graduated from West Point in 1843 and came to California in 1849 as a lieutenant with the U.S. Army forces occupying California following the Mexican ...
Protected from the wind and the sea inside a secluded sandstone-sheltered cove, this little Ligurian fishing village is every bit as charming as it appears from its postcard-perfect shoreline.