The Santa Lucia Mountains or Santa Lucia Range is a mountain range in coastal California, running from Monterey southeast for 170 km to San Luis Obispo. The highest summit is Junipero Serra Peak, 1786 m, at 36° 08' 44"N 121° 25' 10"W in Monterey County, California. It is part of the Pacific Coast Ranges.
Ventana Wilderness Alliance (http://www.ventanawild.org): Dedicated to the protection, preservation, enhancement and restoration of the wilderness qualities and biodiversity of the public lands within California's northern Santa Lucia Mountains.
The SantaLuciaMountains or SantaLucia Range is a mountain range in coastal California, running from Monterey southeast for 105 miles (170 km) to San Luis Obispo.
The first European to document the SantaLucias was Juan RodrÃguez Cabrillo in 1542 while sailing northward along the coast on a Spanish naval expedition.
The rock of the SantaLucias is dominated by granitic basement of the Salinian Block, between the San Andreas fault and Sur-Nacimiento fault.
Coast Redwoods occupy a narrow strip of land approximately 750 km (470 miles) in length and 8-75 km (5-47 miles) in width along the Pacific coast; the elevation range is mostly from 30-750 m, occasionally down to sea level and up to 920 m (Farjon 2005).
The northern boundary of its range is marked by two groves on the Chetco River on the western fringe of the Klamath Mountains, 25 km (15 miles) north of the California-Oregon border.
The southern boundary of the range is marked by a grove in Salmon Creek Canyon in the SantaLuciaMountains of southern Monterey County.
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