Any Freepers live there, when their parents were in the military?
Posted on 09/17/2017 7:10:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
For the first time in 37 years, the summit of Mt. Umunhum is open to the public.
The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District on Saturday hosted a ceremony to mark the long-awaited occasion.
"We’re thrilled to invite the community to create Mount Umunhum’s next chapter as one of the Bay Area’s great publicly accessible peaks and nature destinations,” said the district's General Manager Steve Abbors.
Situated within the 18,000-acre Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve south of Los Gatos, Mt. Umunhum has been closed since 1980. It was at that time that the former Almaden Air Force Station, which sits on the site, was decomissioned.
In 2009, federal funding made it possible for district officials, who sought extensive public input, to revitalize the peak.
Any Freepers live there, when their parents were in the military?
My hubby and I will be going up there this week. I’m very excited!
My mothers cousin’s husband was an air force meteorologist station on a mountain that you could see from their home in south side of San Jose.
That has to be Mt. Umunhum.
Couldn’t find an address but there were irrigation behind their house that you could access threw a gate.
err irrigation lakes
We have been mountain biking the Sierra Azul trail for years waiting for them to open up Umunhum. The rangers showed us a map nearly twenty years ago that showed plans for Open Space trails from Los Gatos to Santa Cruz, and Umunhum was a key parcel in the plan.
There were pics posted earlier this year, thought it was already open.
The concrete cube had a radar antenna mounted on it.
I did some compaction observation and testing on the parking area there last year or so, it’s definitely a drive up there.
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