Loma Prieta Museum

09/01/2026

These local favorites will be bring some great tunes to our Mountain History Day!

Fun and spontaneous performences of high energy bluegrass and beyond. Requests, audience participati

06/24/2026

If you missed the Lost Town of Loma Prieta talk. Here is the video for your viewing pleasure. Thanks for all that came out.

The Loma Prieta History Museum presents a talk on The Forest of Nis...

05/07/2026

Look at all this wood coming from the mills near the town of Loma Prieta!

05/06/2026

Loma Prieta Peak before all the radio / TV towers!

04/16/2026

Official Flyer going up around the mountain!

04/14/2026

Train headed up or down to the town of Loma Prieta.

04/07/2026

Hey Folks! LPM has an incredible speaking event May 7. We will be talking about the Lost town of Loma Prieta. More pics to come. https://www.facebook.com/events/782419391370959/

02/04/2025

February 27 2025 7pm to 9pm Loma Prieta School Forum Room 23800 Summit Road Los Gatos

REDWOODS IN THE SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS
Ecology and management in an historical context:

This presentation will be about how Redwoods have responded to changes in human forest management since the Spanish Conquest in 1769. Some of the data will be surprising since preservation as a policy has not been kind to those ancient trees. Exploring that history helps inform us about possible solutions and exposes gaps in our learning. Questions remain and answers are being pursued at Wildergarten now to be shared with you.Mark Vande Pol a fourth generation Californian has done extensive research on Native Plants and trees of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Mark and his wife built their home here with the desire to save a piece of California as he knew it as a child. The goal is for the property to function as a laboratory to teach and develop the restoration process while learning more about how we might benefit from native plant control. You can view Mark's work at his website www.wildergarten.org.In the spring we will have the opportunity to tour Mark’s native plant restoration project Wildergarten in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The tour date will be available at the time of his February 27th presentation.

At this Loma Prieta School Forum event on February 27th Dr. Stephen Payne Santa Cruz Mountain Historian will be signing his recent printing of “A Howling Wilderness” and you can get a copy of his book for a $25 LPM donation.