Location: Kern County
The name means “Northwest Hill” in Spanish. Noted in disenos for Rancho Conejo. Alternatively named Mount Abel, not as is often assumed for a communications station (Point Able) built in WWII but rather for Stanley Abel, a 1917 Kern County supervisor during whose tenure the road to the peak was built. That name began to fall out of use when it was revealed that Abel was a proud member of the Ku Klux Clan (which did not prevent his reelection multiple times) but was sufficiently persistent that the USBGN had to reaffirm the official name in 1988.
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