Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz is at the northern finish of Monterey Bay on the Central Coast. Highway 1 passes via Santa Cruz with San Franciso seventy-five miles northward and the Monterey Peninsula forty miles to the south. It nestles against the sequoia stuffed Santa Cruz mountains that divide it from the San Francisco Bay region.

In Santa Cruz, visit the Seaside Boardwalk, a basic seaside small theme park, and ride the 1924 Big Dipper roller coaster. Watch the surfers at Pleasure Point and Steamers Lane. Walk among the many redwoods within the nearby San Lorenzo Valley. Walk the seashores Santa Cruz and Capitola. Shop or have dinner on the at all times vivid Pacific Avenue. Or visit the University of California Santa Cruz campus - it's among the many most stunning within the world.

Neighborhoods in Santa Cruz County