Wrights
Wrights, California is a ghost town in unincorporated west Santa Clara County, California. It is located at the north portal of Wrights Tunnel near Summit Road in the Santa Cruz Mountains, on the north bank of Los Gatos Creek, east of State Route 17.- Type: ghost town
- Description: ghost town in Santa Clara County, California
- Also known as: “Wrights, CA” and “Wrights, California”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mount Thayer and Patchen Pass.
Mount Thayer
Peak
Photo: Thomson200, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Thayer is situated 2½ miles northeast of Wrights.
Patchen Pass
Mountain saddle
Patchen Pass is a low mountain pass through the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, connecting the Santa Clara Valley to Santa Cruz and the Pacific coast. Patchen Pass is situated 2 miles west of Wrights.
Lake Elsman
Photo: Rcc83, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lake Elsman is a 6,200-acre-foot reservoir, created by an earthen dam called Austrian Dam on Los Gatos Creek in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. Lake Elsman is situated 1½ miles southeast of Wrights.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Summit and Laurel.
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.
Laurel
Hamlet
Photo: Cloudswrest, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Laurel is a ghost town in Santa Cruz County, California, United States, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It is in a valley at an elevation of 900 feet above sea level. Laurel is situated 2 miles southwest of Wrights.
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 2 miles northwest of Wrights.
Wrights
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In Other Languages
“Wrights” goes by many names.
- South Azerbaijani: “رایتس، کالیفورنیا”
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