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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 .
Mt Umunhum - one of the highest peaks in the coastal range overlooking San Jose and Silicon Valley. It used to be an early-warning radar site (the 5 story building on the peak) which was closed in 1980. The land eventually became part of the Sierra Azul open space preserve.
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 (914 m). [7] El Sombroso is about 2 miles (3.2 km) north by northeast of Mount Umunhum. [8] Trails connect from Lexington Reservoir, on the western edge of the park, to Hicks Road on the eastern edge.
Guadalupe Creek is a 10.5 miles (16.9 km) northward-flowing stream originating just east of the peak of Mount Umunhum in Santa Clara County, California, United States.It courses along the northwestern border of Almaden Quicksilver County Park in the Cañada de los Capitancillos before joining Los Alamitos Creek after the latter exits Lake Almaden.
The Sierra Azul is a mountain range in Santa Clara County, California. [1] 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.
Mount Umunhum (Dove Mountain) is the physical foundation of Tamien Nation oral narrative of the Great Flood - Tamien Nation's most sacred landscape. [52] Fremont. Construction crews at a Van Daele Homes luxury housing development unearthed 32 sets of Ohlone remains in 2017. The remains were reburied on-site under the supervision of a native ...
The article now says "The summit of Mount Umunhum is the site of the former Almaden Air Force Station, an early-warning radar station built in 1957 that operated from 1958 to 1980." This suggests the well-known "cube" dates from 1957-- which it apparently doesn't, so a footnote (or something) is needed.
Corralitos Creek is a 14.1-mile-long (22.7 km) [3] southward-flowing stream originating on the western slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains in Santa Cruz County, California, United States.