List of hillside letters in California

This is a list of hillside letters (also known as mountain monograms) in the U.S. state of California.[1][2][3] There are at least 80 hillside letters, acronyms, and messages in the state, possibly as many as 91. Among these are the oldest letter (the C in Berkeley, 1905) and the largest letter (the L in Susanville, almost 600 feet long).

Monogram	Town	Description	Location
A	Agoura Hills		34.1538°N 118.7499°W
A	Azusa		34.1551°N 117.8919°W
B	Banner		33.0694°N 116.5441°W
B	Bard		32.8373°N 114.5287°W
B	Barstow		34.9008°N 117.0333°W
B	Boron		35.0145°N 117.6605°W
B	Burbank		34.2016°N 118.2959°W
B	Yucca Valley	Burnt Mountain	34.1054°N 116.4131°W
B	Ridgecrest	Burroughs High School	35.6554°N 117.6127°W
C	Daggett	Calico High School	34.8736°N 116.8949°W
C	San Juan Capistrano	Capistrano High School	33.5093°N 117.6762°W
C	Coalinga		36.1366°N 120.4073°W
C	Coleville		38.5726°N 119.515°W
C	Rancho Cucamonga	Chaffey College	34.174294°N 117.576846°W
C	Riverside	University of California, Riverside	33.9713°N 117.3022°W
C	Berkeley	University of California, Berkeley	37.8746°N 122.2496°W
CALICO	Calico		34.955°N 116.8635°W
CLU	Thousand Oaks	California Lutheran University	34.2333°N 118.8797°W
CPP	Pomona	Cal Poly Pomona	34.0595°N 117.8269°W
DV	Shoshone	Death Valley	35.9809°N 116.276°W
D	Dinuba	Dinuba High School	36.5819°N 119.3465°W
d	Duarte		34.1546°N 117.95°W
E	Escondido		33.165°N 117.102°W
[Eagle]	San Luis Obispo	Camp San Luis Obispo (Nat. Guard Base)	35.3309°N 120.7208°W
EC	Lakeside	El Capitan High School	32.8678°N 116.9265°W
F	Fillmore		34.4091°N 118.893°W
G	El Cajon	Grossmont High School	32.78°N 116.9864°W
GOLDSTONE	Fort Irwin	Goldstone Observatory	35.3028°N 116.8062°W
H	Glendale	Hoover High School	34.1789°N 118.2562°W
H	Hornbrook		41.9111°N 122.5462°W
K	Kelseyville		38.9835°N 122.7958°W
L	Laguna Beach	Laguna Beach High School	33.5450°N 117.7744°W
L	Susanville	Lassen High School	40.4465°N 120.6528°W
L	Laytonville		39.6965°N 123.4656°W
L	Lemon Cove		36.3878°N 119.0094°W
L	Lindsay		36.2173°N 119.0516°W
L	Loyalton		39.6936°N 120.2056°W
L	Ludlow		34.7186°N 116.1747°W
LA	Hacienda Heights	Los Altos High School	34.0184°N 117.9962°W
L¹⁶P	Lone Pine		36.6027°N 118.0875°W
LMU	Los Angeles	Loyola Marymount University	33.9725°N 118.4182°W
LV	Lee Vining		37.9553°N 119.1259°W
M	Maricopa		35.0361°N 119.412°W
M	San Luis Obispo	Mission Preparatory Academy	35.2824°N 120.6747°W
M	Monrovia		34.1582°N 118.0145°W
M	Moreno Valley		33.9597°N 117.2789°W
MB	Morro Bay		35.3772°N 120.8502°W
MSAC	Walnut	Mount San Antonio College	34.0413°N 117.8423°W
NILES	Fremont	neighborhood	37.5828°N 121.9732°W
O	Oroville		39.5472°N 121.5509°W
P	San Bernardino	Pacific High School	34.1334°N 117.2652°W
P	San Luis Obispo	California Polytechnic State University	35.3028°N 120.6518°W
P	San Marcos	Palomar College	33.1557°N 117.173°W
P	Porterville		36.0285°N 118.9649°W
P	Portola		39.805°N 120.4453°W
Q	Quincy		39.9386°N 120.9335°W
R	Randsburg		35.3689°N 117.6476°W
R	Redlands	University of Redlands	34.1834°N 117.105°W
R	Reedley		36.6913°N 119.4249°W
S	Morgan Hill	Ann Sobrato High School	37.1457°N 121.6814°W
S	San Jacinto		33.8204°N 116.9397°W
S	Sanger		36.6945°N 119.426°W
S	Santa Clarita	Saugus High School	34.4416°N 118.5209°W
S	Seville		36.5137°N 119.2121°W
S	Shandon		35.6661°N 120.3826°W
S	Jamestown	Sonora High School	37.880369°N 120.503952°W
SL	San Luis Obispo	San Luis Obispo High School	35.2834°N 120.6463°W
SP	Santa Paula		34.326°N 119.0423°W
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO THE INDUSTRIAL CITY	South San Francisco		37.6634°N 122.4181°W
SMC	Moraga	St. Mary's College	37.8375°N 122.1102°W
SV	Yermo	Silver Valley High School	34.8959°N 116.8945°W
T	Tehachapi		35.1348°N 118.4179°W
T	Templeton		35.5462°N 120.7132°W
T	Trona		35.7847°N 117.3953°W
U	Ukiah		39.1519°N 123.2390°W
V	Ventura		34.2864°N 119.2672°W
V	Victorville		34.5316°N 117.2935°W
VC	Ventura	Ventura College	34.2861°N 119.2357°W
W	Weed		41.4433°N 122.3864°W
W	Whittier		33.978°N 118.0238°W
W	Willits		39.4453°N 123.3028°W
W	Woodlake		36.4321°N 119.0758°W
Y	Yucaipa		34.0412°N 117.0882°W

The Big C at the University of California at Berkeley

Sources

1. Corning, Evelyn (2007). Hillside Letters A to Z : A Guide to Hometown Landmarks. Missoula, Mont.: Mountain Press Publishing Company.
2. Parsons, James J. (1988). "Hillside Letters in the Western United States". Landscape. Sante Fe, N.M. 30 (1): 15–23. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
3. Rocha, Guy (June 2004), "Hillside Letters: In Plain Sight But Not Intended for Planes", Sierra Sage, archived from the original on 2011-07-22, retrieved 2011-08-09

External links

• Mountain Monograms, a website explaining the origins and with an incomplete list and pictures
• Hillside Letters, a companion website to a book on the subject
• Letters on Hills, a category on waymarking.com for geocachers