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The northernmost portion of the Santa Cruz Mountains, north of Half Moon Bay Road (), is known as Montara Mountain; the middle portion is the Sierra Morena, which includes a summit called Sierra Morena, [3] and extends south to a gap at Lexington Reservoir; south of the gap, the mountain range is known as the Sierra Azul.
Belgatos Park and connected Heintz, and Santa Rosa open space preserves, Los Gatos; Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Santa Cruz Mountains; Castle Rock State Park, Santa Cruz Mountains; Coyote Creek Trail, San Jose to Morgan Hill; Ed R. Levin County Park, Milpitas; Fremont Older Open Space Preserve, Saratoga; Grant Ranch Park, East San Jose/Mount ...
One of the many optical illusions at the Santa Cruz Mystery Spot. The Mystery Spot was opened by George Prather in 1939. Prather was an electrician, mechanic, and inventor who was born near Fresno and moved to Santa Cruz in 1920. He owned a welding shop and repair garage in the area before he opened the Mystery Spot.
Mount Madonna is a prominent peak located near the southern end of the Santa Cruz Mountains in southwest Santa Clara County, California.The iconic landmark is surrounded by a county park, and is viewable along U.S. Route 101 in South Santa Clara Valley, and California State Route 152 near Watsonville in south Santa Cruz County.
The preserve is named for the Sierra Azul or "Blue Mountains", the name the colonizing Spanish used for the half of the Santa Cruz Mountains south of today's California Highway 17. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The park features the peaks of Mount Umunhum 3,486 feet (1,063 m), [ 5 ] Mount Thayer 3,478 feet (1,060 m), [ 6 ] and El Sombroso peak 2,999 feet ...
On hotter, south-facing slopes, chaparral scrub of chamise, manzanita, and birch-leaf mountain mahogany predominates. Douglas-fir, common west of the crest of the Santa Cruz Mountains, can be seen as lone trees above the Rogue Valley trail, and along the Black Mountain trail; they are the only conifer in the park. Ridges support grassland and ...
Foothills Nature Preserve (formerly named Foothills Park) is a 1,400-acre (570 ha) park and nature preserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, United States, within the city of Palo Alto. From 1969 until 2020, only residents or city employees of Palo Alto and their guests had lawful access to it, a restriction that has sparked "decades ...
Monte Bello Open Space Preserve is a 3,133-acre (12.68 km 2) open space preserve, located near Palo Alto in the Santa Cruz Mountains, in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties, California, United States. The preserve encompasses the upper Stevens Creek watershed in the valley between Monte Bello Ridge and Skyline Ridge.