It is located near Summit Road in the Santa Cruz Mountains, on the north bank of Los Gatos Creek, east of State Route 17.

[6] Wrights is one of a number of ghost towns in the Santa Cruz Mountains that flourished during the last half of the nineteenth century.

Laurel, Wrights, Glenwood, and Clems declined when the Los Gatos-Santa Cruz railroad ceased operations in March 1940.

One of his sons, Frank Vincent Wright, later married Susie Davis, the daughter of SPCRR president Alfred Davis, and another son, Sumner Banks Wright, moved to southern California and established a town in the San Bernardino mountains known as Wrightwood, today a ski resort.

[9] U.S. Geological Survey maps from 1919 show the railroad running from Los Gatos to Santa Cruz, with stops in Alma, Wrights, Laurel, Glenwood, Clems, Zayante, Eccles, Felton, and Scotts Valley.

[10] Wrights Station was an important shipping point for extensive fruit growing areas in the Santa Cruz mountains.

Fir-crowned mountains frowned down upon it, and the hideous black mouth of the great tunnel close by is always wide open, with the evident and determined intention of swallowing up the train – engine, cars, and all – as it approached from the San Francisco side."

Elza's 9th child was also born in Wright but died shortly after birth and was laid to rest at the Santa Cruz County Graveyard.

Antone Matty became a member of the Santa Clara Valley Pioneer Association, and later joined the Sempervirens Club, a conservation organization devoted to saving the redwoods.

They named the area "Sunset Park", and began hauling trainloads of passengers into the Santa Cruz mountains.

Unfortunately, according to contemporary reports, the visitors gathered armloads of ferns and wildflowers, left a trail of discarded litter strewn along the railroad right-of-way, and kicked out the passenger car windows on the return trip.

The quake also destroyed a number of bridges, damaged the tunnels, and twisted the rails, as Robert Iacopi and William Bronson recounted in their published accounts.

Bruce MacGregor described the job: "The Wrights station agent inked in waybills for loadings of hay, beans, prunes and figs, cargo that would fill two or three boxcars a day.

Located in the bottom of a canyon, Wrights had its share of flash floods, rock slides, and forest fires.

Alice frequently had to telegraph for a repair crew to clear rocks from the track, or shore up a sagging roadbed after a heavy storm.

In later years she worked at the Bank of America in Los Gatos, when it was located at the corner of Main Street and Santa Cruz Avenue.

Wrights Station Road crosses Los Gatos Creek on an historic bridge with iron railings (possibly dating from the 1920s), ending at the site of the town.

The National Weather Service cooperative station, which operated on the site of Wrights until 1986, primarily recorded rainfall and snowfall.

The greatest 24-hour rainfall was 13.79 inches (35.0 cm) on October 12, 1962, during the famous Columbus Day storm that affected much of northern California, Oregon, and Washington.