Mount Hamilton (California)
Mount Hamilton is a mountain in the Diablo Range in Santa Clara County, California. The mountain's peak, at 4,265 feet (1,300 m), overlooks the heavily urbanized Santa Clara Valley and is the site of Lick Observatory, the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory. The asteroid 452 Hamiltonia, discovered in 1899, is named after the mountain. Golden eagle nesting sites are found on the slopes of Mount Hamilton. On clear days, Mount Tamalpais, the Santa Cruz Mountains, Monterey Bay, the Monterey Peninsula, and even Yosemite National Park are visible from the summit of the mountain.
Lick Observatory is visible atop Mount Hamilton; hillsides show typical summer golden (dry) vegetation
Hotel Santa Ysabel on the road up Mt. Hamilton just across Smith Creek in 1895, Courtesy of San Jose Public Library, California Room
Numerous times each winter temperatures drop low enough for Mount Hamilton (left) to receive as much as a foot of snow for a day or two.
Mt. Hamilton had a foot of snow on the ground on April 1, 1967
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.
Mount Hamilton
View of Mt. Diablo from Concord. Main peak at right, North Peak at left, Mt. Zion at center (scroll image L/R to view)
The south edge (mostly Monument Peak) of the Mission Ridge as seen from Milpitas.
The southern end of Henry W. Coe State Park, near Gilroy
