Lobitos, California is a populated place in San Mateo County

San Mateo County, California

San Mateo County is a county located in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. It covers most of the San Francisco Peninsula just south of San Francisco, and north of Santa Clara County. San Francisco International Airport is located at the northern end of the county, and...

, just east of State Route 1

California State Route 1

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 and south of Half Moon Bay

Half Moon Bay, California

Half Moon Bay is a coastal city in San Mateo County, California, USA. Its population was 11,324 as of the 2010 census. Immediately at the north of Half Moon Bay is the Pillar Point Harbor and the unincorporated community of Princeton-by-the-Sea....

 and the ghost town

Ghost town

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 of Purissima

Purissima, California

Purissima is a ghost town in southwestern San Mateo County, California, United States, near the junction of State Route 1 and Verde Road. Purisima means "purest" in Spanish, and is most commonly used in Spanish to refer to La Purísima Concepción of the Virgin Mary .-History:Located on...

. Its location is latitude 372259N, longitude 1222357W; decimal degrees: latitude 37.38306, longitude -122.39917. It is 165 feet above sea level.

The small community is home to the Lobitos Creek Ranch, a full-service production and post production studio offering a wide variety of services for video and digital media production, including development, co-production, editing, animation, DVD, Web-enabled DVD, and multimedia design and authoring.

The Ocean Shore Railroad

Ocean Shore Railroad

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, which operated between San Francisco

San Francisco, California

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 and Tunitas Creek

Tunitas Creek

Tunitas Creek is a stream in San Mateo County, California. Tunitas is Spanish for "Little Prickly Pears". Historically the creek was also known as Arroyo de Las Tunitas....

 from 1907 to 1920, passed near the village. There was apparently no station in Lobitos. Highway 1 originally passed through Lobitos; it was later rerouted to the west of the village, closely following the old railroad route. Today, the portion of the former state highway through Lobitos has become Verde Road. The Lobitos Creek Cut-Off connects the village with Tunitas Creek Road, which runs between Highway 1 and State Route 35

California State Route 35

State Route 35 in the U.S. state of California, generally known as Skyline Boulevard, is a two-lane road running along the western ridge of Silicon Valley in California. It runs from Highway 17 to San Francisco at State Route 1. It provides scenic views of both the Santa Cruz Mountains, the...

 (Skyline Boulevard).

Lobitos was originally named Tunitas

Tunitas, California

Tunitas, California was a small unincorporated community in San Mateo County. It was originally located on State Route 1 until that state route was moved to the west. It was also renamed Lobitos. Its location is latitude 372259N, longitude 1222357W; decimal degrees: latitude 37.38306, longitude...

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