Mt. Umunhum Radar Tower

Mt. Umunhum Radar Tower is a ruins in Santa Clara County, California. Mt. Umunhum Radar Tower is situated nearby to the peak Mount Umunhum, as well as near Sacred Circle.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mount Umunhum and Mount Thayer.

Mount Umunhum

Peak

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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 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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Summit and New Almaden.

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 4 miles southwest of Mt. Umunhum Radar Tower.

New Almaden

Hamlet

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New Almaden, known in Spanish as Nuevo Almadén, is a historic community and former mercury mine in the Capitancillos Hills of San Jose, California, located at the southwestern point of Almaden Valley in South San Jose. New Almaden is situated 4½ miles east of Mt. Umunhum Radar Tower.

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 4½ miles west of Mt. Umunhum Radar Tower.

Mt. Umunhum Radar Tower

Type: Ruins
Categories: building and historic site
Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.16048° or 37° 9′ 38″ north

Longitude

-121.89755° or 121° 53′ 51″ west

Levels

Height

85 feet (26 metres)

Open location code

849W5462+5X

OpenStreetMap ID

way 67095877

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=ruins

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Notable Places Nearby

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