Chumash Peak is one of the "nine sisters" - plugs from ancient volcanoes. It is about 1,250 feet tall. It was named (fairly recently; until 1964 it was unnamed) for the Chumash Indians who are from the area.1

Notes

  1. Mark P. Hall-Patton Memories of the land: placenames of San Luis Obispo County EZ Nature Books (1994) p. 40