Chumash Peak

{{Short description|Mountain in San Luis Obispo County, California}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Chumash Peak

| photo = Hills in San Luis Obispo.jpg

| photo_caption = Chumash Peak is the middle of the three peaks.

| elevation_ft = 1268

| elevation_ref = {{NGVD29}}{{cite loj |id=69695 |name=Chumash |accessdate=2012-03-31}}

| location = San Luis Obispo County, California

| range = Nine Sisters

| coordinates = {{coord|35.30827|N|120.70632|W|type:mountain_region:US-CA_scale:100000_source:TOPO|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| range_coordinates =

| coordinates_ref =

{{cite map

| publisher = USGS

| title = San Luis Obispo quadrangle, California

| url = http://www.topoquest.com/map.php?lat=35.30827&lon=-120.70632&datum=nad83&zoom=4&size=l

| scale = 1:24000

| series = 7.5 Minute Topographic

| accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}

| topo = USGS San Luis Obispo

| type = Volcanic plug

| age = 20 million years

}}

Chumash Peak is a {{convert|1257|ft|abbr=on}} mountain in San Luis Obispo County, California. It is just northwest of San Luis Obispo, on the south side of California State Route 1.

The peak is one of the volcanic plugs known as the Nine Sisters, between Cerro Romauldo to its West and Bishop Peak to its East.

In 1964 the hill was named in recognition of the Chumash Indians who lived in the area due to efforts by Louisiana Dart, curator of the San Luis Obispo County Museum.

{{cite web

|url=http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/ninesis.html

|title=The Nine Sisters of San Luis Obispo County

|publisher=Santa Lucia Chapter, Sierra Club

|accessdate=2009-07-01

|url-status=dead

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090625183618/http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/ninesis.html

|archivedate=2009-06-25

}}

Access to the peak is currently unavailable.

{{cite web

| title = Chumash Peak

| publisher = Climbing SLO

| url = http://www.climbingslo.org/?q=node/205

| accessdate = 2006-05-20 }}

The peak was quarried in the 1970s for foundation material in the construction of new buildings on the Cuesta College campus nearby.[http://www.cuesta.edu/aboutcc/info/history/ Cuesta.edu: History of Cuesta College] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151226171140/http://www.cuesta.edu/aboutcc/info/history/ |date=2015-12-26 }} . accessed 10.20.2015.