Monte Nido, California

Monte Nido (Spanish for "Mount Nest") is an unincorporated community in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. Monte Nido is located in the Santa Monica Mountains 3 mi 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. There were about 150 families living in Monte Nido in 1972.