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St. Helena (/ h ə ˈ l iː n ə / hə-LEE-nə) is a city in Napa County, California, United States. Located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the population was 5,438 at the 2020 census. [8] St. Helena is a popular tourist destination, owing to its vineyards and culinary scene.
Mount Saint Helena (Wappo: Kanamota, "Human Mountain") [4] is a peak in the Mayacamas Mountains with flanks in Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties of California. Composed of uplifted volcanic rocks from the Clear Lake Volcanic Field , it is one of the few mountains in the San Francisco Bay Area to receive any snowfall during the winter.
Sanitarium (formerly, Crystal Springs) [2] is an unincorporated community in Napa County, California. [1] It lies at an elevation of 587 feet (179 m). [1] Sanitarium is located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of Saint Helena.
Designed by the local engineer J. W. Hoar, the Saint Helena Railway Company built a two-car inclined plane, 924 feet (281.6 m)-long, in 1829 to carry cargo between Jamestown and the fort. The cars rode on a pair of iron-plated fir rails, laid on wooden sleepers anchored into the rock of the valley wall, that were separated by a staircase of 700 ...
The range then trends to the north and northwest for about 40 miles (64 km) to Howell Mountain, just northeast of St. Helena, California, where it merges with the Mayacamas Mountains. The Vaca Mountains , which are separated from the Howell Mountains by Suisun Valley on the east side, merge with the latter range northeast of St. Helena also.
The range's highest point is Cobb Mountain, at 4,724 ft (1,440 m) in elevation, located in the central section. [4] There are several other peaks over 2,500 ft (762 m), including Mount Saint Helena and Hood Mountain .
The Napa River rises in northwestern Napa County just south of the summit of Mt. St. Helena in the Mayacamas Mountains of the California Coast Ranges. The source begins as seasonal Kimball Canyon Creek in Robert Louis Stevenson State Park at an elevation of 3,745 feet (1,141 m) which descends the southern slope of Mt. St. Helena to Kimball ...
The mountain has a sub-peak referred to as Cobb Mountain – Southwest Peak with an elevation of about 4483+ feet, (1367+ m) NAVD 88; [4] Southwest Peak lies on the Sonoma-Lake county line and is the highest point in Sonoma County. Nearby taller peaks like Mount Saint Helena and Snow Mountain can be seen from this summit. [5]