Camp Jones Gulch is a YMCA summer camp in La Honda, California, in the Santa Cruz Mountains of the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded in 1934 and encompasses 927 acres of redwood forests and meadows. During the summer, the YMCA of San Francisco operates overnight youth and family camps, and duri
History The Camp Jones Gulch property was originally part of Rancho San Gregorio, a stretch of land granted by Governor Juan Alvarado to Antonio Buelna. A portion of the land grant, which stretched nearly 18,000 acres, was later sold to Henry Wilkins, who, in 1857, sold the property to Jones & Franklin, a small milling operation. One of the company's owners, David Jones, for whom the gulch and camp is named, constructed a saw mill on the site, which stood where the present-day Dining Hall now sits. By the 1930s, Mrs. S. M. Black owned the property, and looked to sell her property to a non-profit organization to create a camp for boys and girls. Richard Perkins, then the General Secretary for the YMCA of San Francisco, negotiated a deal in 1934 to acquire the camp property.
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Located at 37.288N, 122.271W in the San Francisco Peninsula / Silicon Valley area. Nearest airports: KPAO (Palo Alto), KSJC (San Jose International), KNUQ (Moffett Field).