Place:Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California, United States

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NameBonny Doon
Alt namesBonnie Doonsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCensus-designated place
Coordinates37.033°N 122.133°W
Located inSanta Cruz, California, United States
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Bonny Doon is a census-designated place in Santa Cruz County, California.[1] It is situated northwest of the city of Santa Cruz, considered part of the southern San Francisco Bay Area or northern Monterey Bay Area. Bonny Doon's population was 2,868, as reported by the 2020 United States Census.

It was founded in the 1850s as a logging camp. The current name can be attested back to 1902: John Burns, a Scotsman living in Santa Cruz, named Bonny Doon after a line in the Robert Burns song "The Banks O' Doon". The line is: "Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon...", and refers back to the Doon River in Scotland. Evidence of 2,600 years of occupation by Native Americans has been found in the area.

Bonny Doon has no city center or commercial shops, but features several wineries including Bonny Doon Vineyard, a church, two fire stations, a lavender farm, the Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve, an elementary school, and a private-use airport. A beach of the same name is nearby.

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