Tunitas, California facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Tunitas, California
Ghost town
Tunitas, California Location in California
Country	United States
State	California
County	San Mateo
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)

Tunitas on 1940 USGS topo map

Early planning of rail stops included a station or flag stop at Lobitos near the Tunitas community

The Ocean Shore Railway Tunitas station along Tunitas Creek not by the town.

Tunitas, California was a small unincorporated community in San Mateo County. It was originally located on State Route 1 until that state route was moved to the west. It was also renamed Lobitos.

Arroyo de las Tunitas is shown on the diseños, about 1839, of the San Gregorio and Canada Verde grants. The name means “A small bush…grows super-abundant at and near its mouth, and its fruit is known to the present generation as sea apples.”