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, west of Interstate 280 ]] The highest point in the range is Loma Prieta Peak ( 1160 M ; 3806'), near which is the epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake . Other major peaks include Mount Umunhum (1063 m; 3486'), Mount Bielawski ( 985 m; 3231'), El Sombroso (914 m; 2999'), Eagle Rock (758 m; 2488'), Black Mountain (853 m; 2800'), and Sierra Morena (737 m; 2417'). The San Andreas Fault runs along or near the ridge line throughout the range. For much of the length of the range on the San Francisco Peninsula, California State Route 35 runs along its ridge, and is known as " Skyline Boulevard ". The major routes across the mountains are (from north to south) CA-92 from Half Moon Bay to San Mateo , CA-84 from San Gregorio to Menlo Park , CA-9 from Santa Cruz to Saratoga , CA-17 from Santa Cruz to Los Gatos , and CA-152 from Watsonville to Gilroy . The area welcomes a tremendous number of species of ) The range is also home to some of the southernmost Coast Redwood s. The Santa Cruz Mountains are a legally defined . In the 1960s, the Santa Cruz Mountains gained notoriety as the town of Lompico took center stage to the hippy generation as famous people such as Jerry Garcia, of the Grateful Dead, and Janis Joplin sought musical inspiration in the redwood forests along Lompico Creek. Jerry Garcia's family owned a house in Lompico and it was in Lompico, at the age of four, where Jerry had his right middle finger chopped off by his brother. Local legend has it that Jerry Garcia's finger is still somewhere in Lompico. At the far Northern end of Lompico is a large plot of land known as Islandia. This section not only is the headwaters for Lompico Creek, but once contained a large, beautiful house that became extremely popular in the 1960s. It's most famous resident was Janis Joplin who would jam with her group, "Big Brother and the Holding Company." Janis often spoke of the Santa Cruz Mountain's redwood forest as being divine inspiration for her music. EXTERNAL LINKS
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