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Gorda (Spanish for "Fat") is a hamlet in Monterey County, California. [1] It is located 3 mi (4.8 km) south of Cape San Martin, [ 2 ] at an elevation of 148 ft (45 m). [ 1 ] It is one of the three small settlements of filling stations, restaurants, and motels located along State Route 1 on the Big Sur coast.
This is a list of landmark coastal peninsulas of the U.S. state of California, ordered north to south.Unless otherwise noted, source is plate 144 from the Atlas of the War of the Rebellion, drawn 1867, and published 1895.
Rancho Punta del Año Nuevo was a 17,753-acre (71.84 km 2) Mexican land grant in present day San Mateo County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Simeon Castro. [1] Following statehood, the land grant was within Santa Cruz County ; however, an 1868 boundary adjustment gave the land to San Mateo County.
The El Sur Ranch, located on the Big Sur coast of California, has been continuously operated as a cattle ranch since 1834. The approximately 7,100 acres (2,873 ha) ranch straddles Highway 1 for 6 miles (9.7 km) from the mouth of the Little Sur River to the mouth of the Big Sur River and Andrew Molera State Park .
Punta Gorda originally consisted of 22 acres (89,000 m 2) upon which were situated three dwellings, a small two-story concrete lighthouse, concrete oil house, a wooden fog signal building, blacksmith/carpenter-shop, three storage sheds, and a barn. In 1951 all aids-to-navigation were discontinued, the buildings boarded up and personnel transferred.
US 17 in Punta Gorda US 301 in Sarasota US 301 in Bradenton. The highways travel concurrently to Palmetto. US 19 in Tampa I-275 north-northeast of Tampa I-4 in Tampa US 92 in Tampa. The highways travel concurrently through the city. US 98 in Brooksville. The highways travel concurrently through the city. US 27 in Williston.
W.B. raised cattle, hogs, and apples on the land and sold his products to stores in Monterey County. He also sold tanbark to George and William Notley. The tanbark was harvested from the isolated trees inland, corded, brought out by mule back or using wooden sleds, and loaded by cable onto waiting vessels anchored offshore at Notley's Landing.
Much of the peninsula's coastline is made up of rocky cliffs, though there are also expansive sandy beaches. Point Reyes Aerial View. Point Reyes (/ ˈ r eɪ. ɪ s / RAY-iss Spanish: Punta de los Reyes, meaning 'Cape of the Kings') is a prominent landform and popular tourist destination on the Pacific coast of Marin County in Northern California.