Santa Margarita, California
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Santa Margarita is an unincorporated community located in San Luis Obispo County, California. It was founded in 1889 near Cuesta Peak and San Luis Obispo along today's State Route 58. The town's name
Downtown Santa Margarita, 2011
The narrow-gauge steam train is a popular attraction at the historic Santa Margarita Ranch.
Cuesta Pass
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Cuesta Pass or La Cuesta Pass, colloquially referred to as simply the grade, is a low mountain pass in San Luis Obispo County on California's Central Coast. It crosses the southern Santa Lucia Range a
Santa Margarita, California
…running streams and abundant acorns, was a meeting place for northern Chumash and southern Salinan around 6500 BCE. The de Anza Expedition traversed the Cuesta Grade into the valley in 1776. After Fr. Junipero Serra founded the Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, he realized that an assistancia (sub-mission) was…
Cuesta Pass from Reservoir Canyon south of the pass, with U.S. 101 visible in the upper left
Southbound Coast Starlight at Horseshoe Curve, on the lower Cuesta Grade