This is a list of hillside letters (also known as mountain monograms) in the U.S. state of California. There are at least 83 hillside letters, acronyms, and messages in the state, possibly as many as 90, although some have been removed in recent years. 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 A Azusa A (Planning) Acton B Banner B Bard B Barstow B Boron B Burbank B Yucca Valley Burnt Mountain B Ridgecrest Burroughs High School C Daggett Calico High School C San Juan Capistrano Capistrano High School C Coalinga C Coleville C Rancho Cucamonga Chaffey College C Riverside University of California, Riverside C Berkeley University of California, Berkeley C (Planning) Chilcoot-Vinton CALICO Calico CLU Thousand Oaks California Lutheran University CPP Pomona Cal Poly Pomona CSD Berkeley above the now-UC Berkeley-owned Clark Kerr campus DV Shoshone Death Valley D Dinuba Dinuba High School d Duarte E Escondido [Eagle] San Luis Obispo Camp San Luis Obispo (Nat. Guard Base) EC Lakeside El Capitan High School F Fillmore G El Cajon Grossmont High School GOLDSTONE Fort Irwin Goldstone Observatory H Glendale Hoover High School H Hornbrook K Kelseyville L Laguna Beach Laguna Beach High School L Susanville Lassen High School L Laytonville L Lemon Cove L Lindsay L Loyalton L Ludlow LA Hacienda Heights Los Altos High School L24P Lone Pine LMU Los Angeles, California Loyola Marymount University LV Lee Vining M Maricopa M San Luis Obispo Mission Preparatory Academy M Monrovia M Moreno Valley M Banning Morongo Valley MB Morro Bay MSAC Walnut Mount San Antonio College NILES Fremont neighborhood O Oroville P San Bernardino Pacific High School P San Luis Obispo California Polytechnic State University P San Marcos Palomar College P [now over grown] Claremont Pomona College P Porterville P Portola Q Quincy R Randsburg R Redlands University of Redlands R Reedley ROCKAWAY BEACH Pacifica S (removed about 2010) Morgan Hill Ann Sobrato High School S San Jacinto S Sanger S Santa Clarita Saugus High School S Seville S Shandon S Jamestown Sonora High School SL San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo High School SP Santa Paula SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO THE INDUSTRIAL CITY South San Francisco SMC Moraga St. Mary's College SV Yermo Silver Valley High School T Tehachapi T Templeton T Trona U Ukiah V Ventura V Victorville VC Ventura Ventura College W Weed W Whittier W Willits W Woodlake Y (fade) Yucaipa Yucaipa High School
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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