page_title: Mountain House, Alameda County, California
hierarchical_section_title: Mountain House, Alameda County, California
caption_attribution_description: English: This is the southeast portion of the USGS Topo Map of 1916 for the Byron Quadrangle, California.
context_page_description: Mountain House was a historic waystop for forty-niners halfway from San Francisco to the Sierra Nevada gold country. Today it is an unincorporated community in Alameda County, California, United States. It is located 12 miles east-northeast of Livermore, and 6 miles east of the Altamont Pass, historically the Livermore Pass, at an altitude of 207 feet, between the California Aqueduct and the Delta-Mendota Canal. San Joaquin County's Mountain House borrowed the name of the historic Mountain House and is located two miles to the northeast further downstream on Mountain House Creek.
context_section_description: Mountain House (formerly, Zimmerman's and Zimmerman's Mountain House) was a historic waystop for forty-niners halfway from San Francisco to the Sierra Nevada gold country. Today it is an unincorporated community in Alameda County, California, United States. It is located 12 miles (19 km) east-northeast of Livermore, and 6 miles (9.7 km) east of the Altamont Pass, historically the Livermore Pass, at an altitude of 207 feet (63 m), between the California Aqueduct and the Delta-Mendota Canal. San Joaquin County's Mountain House borrowed the name of the historic Mountain House and is located two miles (3 km) to the northeast further downstream on Mountain House Creek.
caption: Southeast portion of the U.S. Geological Survey 1916 Topographical Map of the Byron Quadrangle, California, showing the historic Mountain Home on Mountain House Creek.
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