Tunitas Creek

Tunitas Creek is a 6.6-mile-long (10.6 km)[1] stream in San Mateo County, California.[2] Tunitas is Spanish for "Little Prickly Pears". Historically the creek was also known as Arroyo de Las Tunitas.[3]

An all-weather paved county road, Tunitas Creek Road, follows the creek from its source at 1,860 feet (570 m) on Kings Mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains to its outflow at the Pacific Ocean, at Tunitas Beach.

The cliffs just north of the Tunitas Creek outflow were the site for Gordon's Chute, a ramp for sliding farm goods from the top of the cliffs to ships anchored in the rolling surf below. Gordon's Chute was built in 1872 and lasted until 1885, when a storm blew it away.[4] A period drawing of the chute is here, and eyebolts for the chute can still be found in the cliff-face.[4]

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References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 15, 2011
  2. ^ USGS, 09-20-07
  3. ^ Gudde, Erwin G. (1949). California Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. p. C-347. http://books.google.com/books?id=M-22djGNuhwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=gudde+california+place+names&source=bl&ots=-KQE_DSIGO&sig=6T9eSA_9RhEWz54bFp0wABRTNJE&hl=en&ei=-bWZTL-_OImasAOSyaCpAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=tunitas%20creek&f=false. Retrieved 2010-09-21. 
  4. ^ a b Gordon's Chute

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