Summit
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.- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Santa Cruz County, California
- Also known as: “Summit, CA” and “Summit, Santa Cruz County, California”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Patchen Pass and Lake Elsman.
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 1½ miles northwest of Summit.
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 2 miles east of Summit.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Laurel and Holy City.
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.
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 Summit.
Glenwood
Hamlet
Photo: Mrwrite, Public domain.
Glenwood, California, is an unincorporated area of Santa Cruz County. It is located at coordinates, and is 891 feet above sea level. Glenwood is situated 2 miles southwest of Summit.
Summit
- Categories: unincorporated community and locality
- Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.1308° or 37° 7′ 51″ northLongitude
-121.95893° or 121° 57′ 32″ westOpen location code
849W42JR+8COpenStreetMap ID
node 413746545OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q7637747
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Summit” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “薩米特 (加利福尼亞州聖塔克魯茲縣)”
- Chinese: “薩米特”
- French: “Summit”
- Turkish: “Summit”
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