La Honda Creek facts for kids
Quick facts for kids La Honda Creek |
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La Honda Creek flows through Play Bowl in La Honda, California.
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| Country | United States |
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| Main source | near Allen Lookout, San Mateo County, California 1,940 feet (590 m) 37°23′32″N 122°17′30″W / 37.3923°N 122.2918°W |
| River mouth | San Gregorio Creek 320 feet (98 m) |
| Length | about 7 miles (11 km) |
The creek in November 2015, at the end of California's dry season.
The creek in January 2016, during the wet season.
La Honda Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California and is a tributary of San Gregorio Creek. It flows about 7 miles (11 km), from its source (37°23′32″N 122°17′30″W / 37.3923°N 122.2918°W) near Bear Gulch Road and Skyline Boulevard (CA 35), to its confluence with Alpine Creek to form San Gregorio Creek in La Honda.
The creek was listed as Arroyo Ondo on several diseños on the Mexican land grants and as Arroyo Hondo on the 1856 Rancho Cañada de Raymundo map. Hondo is Spanish for 'deep'.
California State Route 84 (CA 84) follows the valley of the creek from Sky Londa to San Gregorio. A large part of the creek's upper watershed is in La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve.
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