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La Honda California Map

Explore La Honda, California, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of La Honda, California

How to Use This La Honda, California Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for La Honda, California. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of California or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to La Honda.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	La Honda
State	California (CA)
County	San Mateo County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	37.317705
Longitude	-122.25843
Population	979
Density	88.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	94020
Area Code	415, 628
County Seat	Redwood City
School District	La Honda-Pescadero Unified School District

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About La Honda, California

La Honda is a locality in San Mateo County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 979. The population density is 88.8 people per km². La Honda is located at 37.3177°N, 122.2584°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 94020.

La Honda remains defined by the persistent, cold-water clarity of La Honda Creek, which carves a path through the dense, shadowed canopy of the surrounding woodlands. It lies 9.4 miles southwest of Stanford, CA (from Stanford, CA: bearing 219°T), and is situated 9.9 miles west-southwest of Los Altos. The landscape here is defined by deep, vertical relief, where the steep terrain falls away into the shadowed depths of Rodgers Gulch, keeping the air cool even as the summer sun turns the distant, exposed slopes of the Coast Ranges into a brittle, golden amber. Pacific fog often drifts inland from the direction of Mussel Rock, seven miles away, cooling the dense understory and settling over the surface of Big Lagoon like a shroud. Within the La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve, the earth feels ancient and heavy with moisture, harboring a silence that is broken only by the sudden, sharp movement of deer or the rhythmic drip of condensation falling from the canopy onto the forest floor.

Economic life in La Honda has long been shaped by the extraction of timber and the hard, isolationist history of a mountain settlement that looks inward rather than toward the distant blue line of the ocean. While the quietude of the present day suggests a retreat from the frantic pace of the outside world, the legacy of logging and the rough-hewn character of the early settlers remain etched into the architecture of the older, weathered structures. Residents and the occasional traveler moving through the region may find their way to the Tarwater Trail Loop to experience the density of the terrain, though the true pulse of the locality is found in the way the light catches the moisture-laden air at dusk. La Honda persists as a place where the proximity to the coast, measured by the salt-scented breeze that occasionally reaches the ridgelines, is felt more as a distant atmospheric suggestion than a destination, leaving the focus firmly on the shaded, sequestered life of the interior canyons.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Sam McDonald Park (Local Park) — 1.0 mi, 217° SW
La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 1.2 mi, 294° NW
Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 1.6 mi, 107° E
Pescadero Creek Park (Local Park) — 1.9 mi, 174° S
Towne Trail (Attraction) — 2.4 mi, 144° SE
Ted Norton's Rock (Monument) — 2.4 mi, 064° NE
Audry C. Rust Commemorative Site (Monument) — 3.3 mi, 101° E
Windy Hill (Viewpoint) — 3.3 mi, 012° N
Coal Mine Ridge (Conservation Area) — 3.5 mi, 042° NE
Portola Redwoods State Park (State Park) — 3.6 mi, 149° SE
Dialogue (Public Artwork) — 3.8 mi, 324° NW
Gene Sheehan Overlook (Monument) — 4.2 mi, 099° E
Black Box (Theatre) — 4.7 mi, 031° NE
Page Mill Site (Historic Ruins) — 5.6 mi, 136° SE
Butano State Park (State Park) — 6.2 mi, 183° S
Carriage Room Museum (Museum) — 6.4 mi, 358° N
Pandemonium Aviaries Sculpture (Attraction) — 6.7 mi, 053° NE
Johansen Mill Site (Historic Ruins) — 7.6 mi, 170° S
Woodside Store (Museum) — 7.9 mi, 353° N
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (Marine Protected Area) — 8.1 mi, 277° W
Castle Rock State Park. Red Mountain Day Use Area (Attraction) — 8.1 mi, 124° SE
Castle Rock State Park. Old Corral Day Use Area (Attraction) — 8.2 mi, 125° SE
California Coastal National Monument (National Monument) — 8.2 mi, 285° W · 8,946 acres
Campfire Center (Theatre) — 8.4 mi, 208° SW
Golden Gate National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 8.6 mi, 341° N · 113k acres
Barron Park Donkeys (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 9.1 mi, 046° NE
Portola Art Gallery (Gallery) — 9.6 mi, 027° NE
ARTis ANiMA Studio of Fine Arts (Arts Centre) — 9.9 mi, 048° NE
Ano Nuevo State Marine Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 11.9 mi, 209° SW
Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 12.4 mi, 008° N · 81k acres

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