Mount Diablo: the devil's thicket

Mount Diablo's name traces to 1805, when Chupcan people escaped Spanish soldiers from a willow thicket near present-day Concord; the soldiers called it 'monte del diablo', thicket of the devil, and English speakers later applied it to the peak.

1805 CE · 37.88, -121.91 · status: legend

The account

For Bay Miwok and other peoples the mountain was a place of creation stories and power. Later legends grew around the 'devil' name.

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Mount Diablo