Location: Riverside County, California
Name Toro is a Spanish word for Bull. Believed to have been applied after the Mexican era.
On the Santa Rosa Indian Reservation---delisted from HPS Peak List when free access was denied (1975). Reinstated in the HPS election of 2002.
This is the highest summit in the Santa Rosa Mountains, a Penninsular Range.
Variant name: Toro Mountain (USFS 1931).
Name first appears on USGS Indio Special quad (1931).
Peak was on the original 1946 HPS Peak List.
Weldon Heald climbed this peak in 1937.
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