Cholame, California
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Cholame, California is an unincorporated community in San Luis Obispo County, California, USA. It sits at an elevation of 1,157 feet (351 m) above sea level and is located at . Cholame is reached via California State Route 41, just south of the junction of Route 46. Rainfall data from a nearby ranch shows that the area around Cholame only receives about eight to nine inches of rain in a normal year.
The town is best known as the place where James Dean died on September 30, 1955. (Dean actually died at a spot located a short distance away.) On September 30, 2005, the fiftieth anniversary of Dean's death, a few hundred people gathered in Cholame to pay tribute to Dean. Cholame has a restaurant and a memorial to James Dean.
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