Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
English: This is a locator map showing San Luis Obispo County in California. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
Piedras Blancas State Marine Reserve (SMR) and Piedras Blancas State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) are two adjoining marine protected areas that lie offshore of San Luis Obispo County on California's central coast. The combined area of these marine protected areas is 19.68 square miles (51.0 km 2). The SMR protects all marine life within its ...
The entrance lobby and belfry of the Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa. A statue of Fray Junípero Serra stands outside the church. Robert Jack House, built c. 1882. San Luis Obispo County (/ s æ n ˌ l uː ɪ s oʊ ˈ b ɪ s p oʊ / ⓘ), officially the County of San Luis Obispo, is a county on the Central Coast of California.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Luis Obispo 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] [3] [4] [7] It lies in the Pacific Ocean off the Central Coast of California. [7] It is located along the coast of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties, stretching for 116 miles (187 km) from just south of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant in San Luis Obispo County southward to Naples Reef on the Gaviota Coast in Santa Barbara County.
Located on the Central Coast of California, San Luis Obispo is roughly halfway between the San Francisco Bay Area in the north and Greater Los Angeles in the south. The population was 47,063 at the 2020 census. [10] San Luis Obispo was founded by the Spanish in 1772, when Saint Junípero Serra established Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa.
In 1904 the Paso Robles Hot Sulphur Company was formed by 12 investors to build a bathhouse for locals and to develop a spa for tourists and guests. [2] In 1910 a brochure was published called, Paso Robles Hot Springs; the great hot springs resort of America by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. [5] In 1913, the Inn burned down.
Santa Margarita Lake, also called Salinas Reservoir, is a lake several miles southeast of the town of Santa Margarita in San Luis Obispo County, California.The lake was created by the building of Salinas Dam on the southern end of the Salinas River, very close to the river's origin in the Santa Lucia Range.