Almaden Air Force Station (closed)
Almaden Air Force Station (closed) is a historic site in Santa Clara County, California and has an elevation of 3,241 feet. Almaden Air Force Station (closed) is situated near the peak Mount Umunhum, as well as near Sacred Circle.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: Mount Umunhum and Mount Thayer.
Mount Umunhum
Peak
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.
Mount Thayer
Peak
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.
Lake Elsman
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 2½ miles southwest of Almaden Air Force Station (closed).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, United States, in the ranges of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Summit is situated 3½ miles southwest of Almaden Air Force Station (closed).
Holy City
Hamlet
Holy City is an unincorporated community in Santa Clara County, California, United States. Formerly a white-supremacist cult compound in the 1920s and 1930s, it is now considered a ghost town. Holy City is situated 4 miles west of Almaden Air Force Station (closed).
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 4½ miles west of Almaden Air Force Station (closed).
Almaden Air Force Station (closed)
- Type: Historic site
- Address: CA
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.15872° or 37° 9′ 31″ north
Longitude
-121.90199° or 121° 54′ 7″ west
Elevation
3,241 feet (988 metres)
Open location code
849W535X+F6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=air_force_station
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Sacred Circle and Mt. Umunhum Radar Tower.
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