Pillar Point
Pillar Point is a cape in San Mateo, California. Pillar Point is situated nearby to the hamlet Princeton, as well as near the village El Granada.Places of Interest
Highlights include Mavericks Beach and Pillar Point Air Force Station.
Mavericks Beach
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mavericks Beach is a surfing location in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is just outside of the breakwater of Pillar Point Harbor, near the coastal community of Princeton-by-the-Sea, just north of the town of Half Moon Bay.
Pillar Point Air Force Station
Military installation
Pillar Point Air Force Station, formerly Pillar Point Military Reservation, is a United States Space Force facility, situated on 48 acres atop the coastal promontory Pillar Point, near the community of Princeton-by-the-Sea, California.
Eddie Andreini Sr. Airfield
Aerodrome
Eddie Andreini Sr. Airfield, officially Half Moon Bay Airport, is a public airport in San Mateo County, six miles northwest of Half Moon Bay, California, United States. The airport is on the Pacific Coast, south of San Francisco.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Princeton and El Granada.
Princeton
Hamlet
Princeton-by-the-Sea is an unincorporated community on the coast of San Mateo County, California. The ZIP code is 94019 and the community is in area code 650.
El Granada
Village
Photo: Vadim Manuylov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Peninsula region of the San Francisco Bay Area lies immediately south of the City and County of San Francisco—reaching from its famous neighbor to the north into the high-tech region of Silicon Valley.
Miramar
Hamlet
Miramar is a district located within the city limits of Half Moon Bay in San Mateo County, California. Miramar Beach is located at Miramar. The east side of Highway 1 and north of the middle of Mirada road is in unincorporated San Mateo County.
Pillar Point
- Type: Cape
- Also known as: “Miramontas Point”
- Category: landform
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.496° or 37° 29′ 46″ northLongitude
-122.49819° or 122° 29′ 54″ westElevation
118 feet (36 metres)Open location code
849VFGW2+9POpenStreetMap ID
node 13152744914OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
5382761
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