Sierra Azul
The Sierra Azul is a mountain range in Santa Clara County, California. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Thayer and Mount Umunhum.
Mount Thayer
Peak
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Mount Thayer is a mountain in the Santa Cruz mountain range located in Santa Clara County, California. The summit is in a section of the abandoned Almaden Air Force Station, 1.5 miles northwest of Mount Umunhum.
Mount Umunhum
Peak
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Mount Umunhum 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Summit and Holy City.
Summit
Village
Summit is a small unincorporated community more frequently referred to by locals as the Loma Prieta Community located partially in Santa Clara County, but predominantly in Santa Cruz County, California, in the mountain ranges of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Summit is situated 3½ miles southwest of Sierra Azul.
Holy City
Hamlet
Holy City is an unincorporated community in Santa Clara County, California. Once considered a Utopian community in the 1920s and 1930s, it is now considered a ghost town. Holy City is situated 4 miles west of Sierra Azul.
Chemeketa Park
Hamlet
Chemeketa Park is an unincorporated community of approximately 150 homes located in Lexington Hills, in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Santa Clara County, California, that is now effectively a rural neighborhood of Los Gatos, California. Chemeketa Park is situated 4 miles west of Sierra Azul.
Sierra Azul
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 2,917 feet
- Description: mountain range in the state of California
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Sierra Azul” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sierra Azul”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سييرا ازول”
- Ladin: “Sierra Azul”
- Spanish: “Sierra Azul”
- Venetian: “Siera Azul”
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