Olympia
Olympia is an unincorporated community in Santa Cruz County, California, located north of Felton on Zayante Creek. Olympia was established after the South Pacific Coast narrow-gauge railroad completed a line over the Santa Cruz Mountains from Los Gatos in 1880.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: City in California
- Also known as: “Olympia, CA” and “Olympia, California”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Felton Presbyterian Church and Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad.
Felton Presbyterian Church
Historic building
Photo: Mrwrite, Public domain.
Felton Presbyterian Church is a moderately sized church located in Felton, California.
Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad
Park
Photo: Josh Hallett, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad is a 3 ft narrow-gauge tourist railroad in California that starts from the Roaring Camp depot in Felton, California and runs up steep grades through redwood forests to the top of nearby Bear Mountain, a distance of 3.25 miles. Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad is situated 2 miles south of Olympia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mount Hermon and Felton.
Mount Hermon
Hamlet
Photo: DanDawson, Copyrighted free use.
Mount Hermon is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Santa Cruz County, California.
Felton
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Felton is a census-designated place in Santa Cruz County, California, United States. The population was 4,489 as of 2020 census and according to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.6 square miles, all of it land.
Zayante
Hamlet
Zayante is a census-designated place in Santa Cruz County, California. It is a residential area located on Zayante Creek. Zayante sits at an elevation of 699 feet. The 2020 United States census reported Zayante's population was 729. Zayante is situated 1½ miles northeast of Olympia.
Olympia
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Santa Cruz County, Central Coast, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.06967° or 37° 4′ 11″ northLongitude
-122.05857° or 122° 3′ 31″ westElevation
367 feet (112 metres)Open location code
849V3W9R+VHOpenStreetMap ID
node 150981455OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Slovak—“Olympia” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Olympia”
- German: “Olympia”
- Slovak: “Olympia”
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