Gabilan Range

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The Gabilan Range or Gabilan Mountains are located on the Pacific Coast Range of California's Central Coast trending in a northwest-southeast direction along the Monterey County and San Benito County line. It is bordered by the Diablo Range, the San Andreas Fault, and California State Route 25 to the east and by the Santa Lucia Range, Salinas Valley, and U.S. Route 101 to the west. The range is home to the Pinnacles National Monument, and contains several peaks over 3,000 feet. The Gabilan mountains are mentioned in the famous novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and in East of Eden also by John Steinbeck.


Template:East of Eden, published by Penguin Books USA Inc., 1992