Monte Nido, California

Monte Nido is an unincorporated community in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. Monte Nido is located in the Santa Monica Mountains north of Malibu.
The L.A. County Fire Department fire station at Monte Nido hosts one of the LADWP's remote rainfall monitoring systems.

History

Monte Nido started out as a mountain-getaway resort in the 1920s and 1930s. Named after the nearby iconic ridge of the Santa Monica Mountains, the century-old restaurant has attracted a Hollywood in-crowd ever since Clark Gable and Errol Flynn frequented the rustic getaway when it was the Crater Camp Roadhouse. Among the names who rented out holiday cabins here were Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and President Herbert Hoover.
There were about 150 families living in Monte Nido in 1972.