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Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve is managed by the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District in Santa Clara County, California. [1] It is approximately 19,300 acres (7,800 ha) in area. 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 ...
Mount Umunhum (/ ˈ ʌ m ə n ʌ m / UH-mə-num) is a peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains, located in Santa Clara County, California.It is the fourth-highest peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains, after Loma Prieta, Crystal Peak, and Mount Chual.
It is the southern half of the Santa Cruz Mountains range, which is divided into two parts by California Highway 17 into what the colonizing Spanish called the Sierra Morena or "Brown Mountains" to the north and the Sierra Azul or "Blue Mountains" to the south. [2] [3] [4] Part of the range is within the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve.
The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District has permanently preserved almost 63,500 acres (25,700 ha) of mountainous, foothill, and bayland open space, creating 26 open space preserves. [citation needed] Of the district's 26 preserves, 24 are open to the public free of charge, 365 days a year from dawn until one-half hour after sunset.
The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District - a system of regional parks and nature reserves in the western and southern San Francisco Bay Area of northern California. The protected areas are located within Santa Clara , Santa Cruz , and San Mateo Counties .
Hicks Creek begins on the north slope of El Sombroso [10] in the southern Santa Cruz Mountains, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north-northwest of Mt. Umunhum. [11] [12] The southern Santa Cruz Mountains were originally named by the Spanish as the Sierra Azul or "Blue Mountains", [13] which is the namesake for the Sierra Azul Open Space District.
Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve; Sierra Vista Open Space Preserve This page was last edited on 17 December 2016, at 06:15 (UTC). Text ...
Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve; Sierra Vista Open Space Preserve; Spenceville Wildlife Area; T. Theodore J. Hoover Natural Preserve; Thornewood Open Space Preserve;