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The Diablo Range is a mountain range in the California Coast Ranges subdivision of the Pacific Coast Ranges in northern California, United States. It stretches from the eastern San Francisco Bay area at its northern end to the Salinas Valley area at its southern end.
Joseph D. Grant County Park is the largest county park in Santa Clara County, California. Also known as Grant Ranch Park, this site is situated in the Diablo Range foothills of the eastern Santa Clara Valley. The park is one of 28 owned by Santa Clara County and managed by the Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department.
Pacheco Creek is a 28 miles (45 km) west by southwest flowing stream which heads in the Diablo Range in southeastern Santa Clara County and flows to San Felipe Lake, the beginning of the Pajaro River mainstem, in San Benito County, California.
La Vereda del Monte was a backcountry route through remote regions of the Diablo Range, one of the California Coast Ranges. La Vereda del Monte was the upper part of La Vereda Caballo,, used by mesteñeros from the early 1840s to drive Alta California horses to Sonora for sale.
Lone Tree Creek is a tributary stream of the San Joaquin River now diverted, in San Joaquin County, California. Its source is in the Diablo Range at its confluence with its North Fork and Middle Fork tributary streams at 37°34′15″N121°26′24″W at an elevation of 790 feet. Its mouth was originally at its confluence with the San Joaquin River, but later was diverted into the Delta Mendota Canal at 37°38′24″N121°21′12″W, but now interrupted by development, reaches just past the mouth of its canyon at an elevation of 290 feet.
Isabel Valley is a valley in the Diablo Range in Santa Clara County, California. It is also known as Santa Ysabel Valley.
Mississippi Creek is a tributary stream to Pacheco Creek in Santa Clara County, California.
Valle Atravesado,, a small, east-west running valley that crosses the north-south running valley of the upper reach of Mississippi Creek in the Diablo Range, in Santa Clara County, California.
Frenchs Flat is a flat along the divide of the Diablo Range south of Pacheco Pass in Santa Clara County, California. It lies at an elevation of 1,362 feet south southwest of Pacheco Pass.
South Fork Orestimba Creek is a tributary stream of Orestimba Creek, in the Diablo Range in Stanislaus County, California. Its mouth lies at an elevation of 673 feet at its confluence with North Fork Orestimba Creek where it forms the head of Orestimba Creek, itself a tributary of the San Joaquin River. Its source is at an elevation of 1,550 feet at 37°09′26″N121°23′06″W in Henry W. Coe State Park.
North Fork Orestimba Creek is a tributary stream of Orestimba Creek, in the Diablo Range in Stanislaus County, California. Its mouth lies at an elevation of 673 feet at its confluence with South Fork Orestimba Creek where it forms the head of Orestimba Creek, itself a tributary of the San Joaquin River. Its source is at an elevation of 3,250 feet at 37°20′37″N121°24′44″W on the north slope of the northern ridge of Black Mountain.
Mustang Flat is a flat in the Diablo Range in Stanislaus County, California. It lies at an elevation of 1,329 feet south of the South Fork Orestimba Creek, north of Mustang Peak.
North Fork Pacheco Creek is a 19 miles (31 km) tributary stream of Pacheco Creek, in Santa Clara County, California. Originally it was considered the upper reach of Pacheco Creek. Its source is at an elevation of 2,360 feet (720 m) at 37°11′17″N121°25′42″W on a mountain side in Henry W. Coe State Park and is the headwaters of the Pajaro River watershed.
Valle Hondo, a small flat in the canyon along the course of North Fork Pacheco Creek in Henry W. Coe State Park in Santa Clara County, California. It lies at an elevation of 1,698 feet. Formerly a Native American rancheria, then an overnight camp along La Vereda del Monte, and then for local ranchers, it is now the site of Pacheco Camp in the state park and is located where the Pacheco Creek Trail meets Coit Road, which borders the flat on its south side.
Fifield Ranch is a locale within the Diablo Range in Santa Clara County, California. It lies at an elevation of 1,512 feet, west of the head of Romero Creek and the Santa Clara County line, about a mile north of Hagerman Peak. It is at the source of a tributary canyon and stream to Chimney Gulch, itself a tributary of East Fork Pacheco Creek.
County Line Road is an unimproved road between the San Antonio Valley and Fifield Ranch that closely follows the east-west divide of the Diablo Range and the County boundary of Santa Clara County, and Stanislaus County, California. This road followed the route called La Vereda del Monte, used by Californio mesteñeros and the gang of Joaquin Murrieta and other bandits and horse-thieves, and sites of three of their camps along the route are found along it. Two sites are now state park campgrounds, the last is at ranch dating back to the 1860s.
Chimney Gulch is a valley and arroyo in the Diablo Range, in Santa Clara, California. Its mouth is at an elevation of 932 feet at its confluence with an unnamed creek tributary to East Fork Pacheco Creek that runs westward down below Hagerman Peak to join the East Fork about an eighth of a mile below its confluence with Chimney Gulch. The head of Chimney Gulch and the source of the stream, is a pond south of the Fifield Ranch on the northeast slope of Hagerman Peak at 37°06′52″N121°13′55″W.
Bullhead Canyon, is a canyon and tributary stream of the North Fork Pacheco Creek in Santa Clara County, California. Its mouth is on its confluence with North Fork Pacheco Creek at an elevation of 630 feet. Its source and its upper reach is at 37°10′08″N121°19′04″W within the boundary of Henry W. Coe State Park. It is overlooked to the north by the County Line Road,, that runs west to east along the divide of the Diablo Range and the boundary of Santa Clara and Stanislaus County, California.
Red Hill is a summit on the eastern slope of the Diablo Range, in Merced County, California. Its highest elevation is 2,326 feet. The summit is part of a long ridge where its high point is between 37°07′35″N121°11′31″W and 37°07′27″N121°11′50″W. The Red Mountain Road, runs over this ridge between Fifield Road on the divide of the Diablo Range and McCabe Road on Romero Creek.
Wildcat Canyon is a canyon and tributary stream of South Fork Pacheco Creek in Santa Clara County, California. Its source is in the Diablo Range in San Benito County, California. Its source is a spring at an elevation of 2,560 feet, on the southwest slope of Mariposa Peak near its summit at 36°57′15″N121°12′52″W. Its mouth is at its confluence with South Fork Pacheco Creek at an elevation of 1,388 feet .
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Coordinates: 37°05′25″N121°17′12″W / 37.09028°N 121.28667°W