Monte Nido, California | |
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Coordinates: 34°04′51″N 118°41′13″W / 34.08083°N 118.68694°W | |
Country | United States |
State | California |
County | Los Angeles |
Elevation | 185 m (607 ft) |
Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific (PST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
Area code | 818 |
GNIS feature ID | 256067[1] |
Monte Nido (Spanish for "Mount Nest") is an unincorporated community in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. Monte Nido is located in the Santa Monica Mountains 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Malibu. The L.A. County Fire Department fire station at Monte Nido hosts one of the LADWP's remote rainfall monitoring systems.[2]
Monte Nido started out as a mountain-getaway resort in the 1920s and 1930s.[3] There were about 150 families living in Monte Nido in 1972.[4]