San Pablo Ridge is a small

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in western

Contra Costa County Contra Costa County (; ''Contra Costa'', Spanish language, Spanish for 'Opposite Coast') is a U.S. county, county located in the U.S. state of California, in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. As of the 2020 United States census, the ...

from

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between Wildcat Canyon and San Pablo Canyon. The western flank is part of the Wildcat Creek

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and the eastern flank is part of the

San Pablo Creek San Pablo Creek is an U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 15, 2011 creek in Contra Costa County, California, United States, which drains the canyon or valley between the ...

watershed. To the west are the

Berkeley Hills The Berkeley Hills are a range of the Pacific Coast Ranges, and overlook the northeast side of the valley that encompasses San Francisco Bay. They were previously called the "Contra Costa Range/Hills" (from the original Spanish ''Sierra de la Co ...

, and to the east, the Sobrante Ridge. The highest point on the San Pablo Ridge is Vollmer Peak (elevation 1,905 feet/581m), formerly called "Bald Peak", located near the point where it meets the Berkeley Hills at the head of Wildcat Canyon. San Pablo Ridge is largely undeveloped, forming part of county lands and open space, with a few privately held ranches remaining.

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