San Jose Creek is a west-flowing stream that begins on Chamisal Ridge in the northern Santa Lucia Range in Monterey County, California.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map , accessed July 23, 2026 It is tributary to the Pacific Ocean at Monastery Beach south of Carmel.
History The lands about San Jose Creek were originally inhabited by the Rumsen, a group of the Ohlone People. San Jose Creek is one of many California places named by the Spanish for Saint Joseph. It runs through the Rancho Potrero de San Carlos Spanish land grant which is now a conservation community known as the Santa Lucia Preserve.
Ecology San Jose Creek hosts spawning and rearing of federally threatened South-Central California Coast steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) distinct population segment (DPS).
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