Bonny Doon and Ben Lomond Mountain

(Or: If Bonny Doon's not in them, where are the Santa Cruz Mountains?)

Ben Lomond Mountain (shaded green, above) is the name for the
stretch of coastal hills between the San Lorenzo Valley and the ocean.
Lone Star Peak and Bald Mountain are prominences on Ben Lomond Mountain.

The Santa Cruz Mountains (tinted red) are found east of the San Lorenzo valley
and follow the border between Santa Clara County and Santa Cruz County.
They're designated as such on this map (and most others) but are hard to read here.
Loma Prieta, Mt. Bache and Mt. Umanhum are all in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
It's also where the epicenter of the 1989 quake was located.

Bonny Doon is not in the Santa Cruz Mountains - it's on Ben Lomond Mountain, in the Coast Range.

This is a fragment of an 1879 map: check the location (then)
of the Santa Cruz County border with San Mateo.
At this time, Pacific Mills was a logging town on the San Lorenzo, which was
re-named Ben Lomond in 1887, after the mountain.

Back to Bonny Doon history here.

Please find and read:

Santa Cruz County Place Names - A Geographical Dictionary

by Donald Thomas Clark

Published by the Santa Cruz Historical Society

ISBN 0-940283-01-8