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Giant California Bay Laurel near Permanente Creek in Rancho San Antonio County Park. The State's tallest and third largest California bay laurel tree (Umbellularia californica), estimated to be over 200 years old, grows in Rancho San Antonio County Park. The tree was protected in 2004 with the addition of fencing and by the removal of a nearby ...
The community of San Antonio Valley, also called San Antonio or San Antone, is located along the Diablo Range in eastern Santa Clara County, California. The locale is bordered by Alameda County to the north and Stanislaus County to the east. The sparsely populated area is located at the junction of San Antonio Valley Road, Mines Road, and Del ...
County Route S1 (CR S1), also known as Sunrise Highway for a portion of its length, is a 34.08 mi (54.85 km) long county highway located entirely in San Diego County, California, United States. It begins at State Route 94 near Barrett and moves northward across Interstate 8 , just west of the Laguna Summit .
It is located on the border between Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve and Monte Bello Open Space Preserve, with the summit located in the former. Early Spanish explorers commonly named tree- or chaparral-covered summits which look black in the distance Loma Prieta , from the Spanish ( loma -hill, prieta -dark). [ 3 ]
Map of Mt. San Antonio (main peak is labelled "Mt Baldy") and the region to the south and east. Mt. San Antonio lies in the Angeles National Forest. Its summit is 10,064 feet (3,068 m), and marks the boundary between San Bernardino County and Los Angeles County. [8] A sub-peak, West Baldy, is 9,996 feet (3,047 m). [1] [4] [9]
The San Antonio Dam was built between 1952 and 1956 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide flood control. In recent years, the lower watershed has become much more urbanized, and the headwaters region is mainly used for recreation, summer hiking and camping, and winter skiing at the Mount Baldy Ski Lifts area.
Of the most prominent summits of California, only Mount Whitney exceeds 3000 meters (9843 feet) of topographic prominence. Five peaks exceed 2000 meters (6562 feet), nine peaks are ultra-prominent summits with more than 1500 meters (4921 feet), and 35 peaks exceed 1000 meters (3281 feet) of topographic prominence.
An image of the San Antonio River, upstream of Lake San Antonio. The San Antonio River is a 58.8-mile-long (94.6 km) [1] river in southern Monterey County, California. The river was used as an irrigation source for Mission San Antonio de Padua.