La Honda is a census-designated place (CDP) in southern San Mateo County, California, United States. The population was 928 at the 2010 census. It is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains between Silicon Valley and the Pacific coast of California. La Honda is near the La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve and State Route 84 on the ocean side of the Coastal Range.
Ken Kesey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (pages of which were written all over the restroom wall of his La Honda residence) and other books, owned a home in La Honda, which served as the base of operations for The Merry Pranksters where they used LSD and other drugs.[4] The escapades of Kesey and the Merry Pranksters are documented in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which describes the wildly painted school bus, ‘Furthur’, driven by Neal Cassady, who had been the hyperkinetic driver in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road.