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La Honda (Spanish for "The Sling") [5] is a census-designated place (CDP) in southern San Mateo County, California, United States. [2] The population was 979 at the 2020 census . It is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains between the Santa Clara Valley and California's Pacific coast.
La Honda Creek is a 7 miles (11 km) long stream on the Pacific slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains and is a tributary of San Gregorio Creek. [3] From its source near Bear Gulch Road and Skyline Boulevard (CA 35) in San Mateo County, California, La Honda Creek's water flow south to its confluence with Alpine Creek to form San Gregorio Creek in La Honda, and thence to the Pacific
The La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve is a publicly accessible 6,142-acre open space reserve in San Mateo County, California, part of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District. It opened to the public in November 2017. The preserve was established in 1984.
The San Gregorio Creek mainstem begins at the confluence of Alpine and La Honda Creeks, whence it flows 12 miles (19 km) through rolling grasslands and pasturelands until it meets the Pacific Ocean at San Gregorio State Beach. It traverses the small unincorporated communities of La Honda, San Gregorio, Redwood Terrace and Sky Londa. [3]
McDonald first encountered Alpine Creek and the redwood forest near La Honda in August 1917 during a vacation with his boss, Mr. Behrens. [ 1 ] : 237–242 McDonald began acquiring the La Honda property in 1919, [ 2 ] where he built a lodge he called Chee-Chee-Wa-Wa; [ 1 ] : 257 he later named his holdings the La Honda-Alpine-Ytaioa Reserve.
Camp Jones Gulch is a YMCA summer camp in La Honda, California, in the Santa Cruz Mountains of the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded in 1934 and encompasses 927 acres (375 ha) of redwood forests and meadows.
Los Angeles, [a] often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.With an estimated 3,820,914 residents within the city limits as of 2023, [8] it is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind only New York City; it is also the commercial, financial and cultural center of Southern California.
Old Store at La Honda sat at the Northwest corner of CA Highway 84 at La Honda Road and Sears Ranch Road, this location is now listed as 8865 La Honda Road, La Honda, San Mateo County, California. This is a California Historical Landmarks in San Mateo County since 1939. [ 2 ]