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Santa Cruz County

Santa Cruz County is a sightseeing stop in Santa Cruz, CA, part of the San Francisco Bay Area guide. Cost: free.

705 Front Street · Santa Cruz, CA

Why you should go…

Visit Santa Cruz County is the official nonprofit visitor marketing organization for Santa Cruz County, California. It publishes a biennial visitor guide covering the county's beaches, state parks, redwood forests, and food and drink scene, and runs a year-round visitor center in downtown Santa Cruz. The county lies on the Pacific coast just south of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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What's around here?

The closest stops to Santa Cruz County, ordered by straight-line distance. A few more like it, plus some different kinds of fun so you can build a full day.

Sightseeing
Local Gem
Downtown Santa Cruz
Free
Santa Cruz's walkable downtown shopping and dining district along Pacific Avenue.
0.2 mi awayMore like this
Shopping
Local Gem
Far West Fungi
Free
Mushroom store and cafe selling fresh, dried and cultivated fungi, grow kits, and mushroom snacks.
0.4 mi awaySwitch it up: Shopping
Stay
Courtyard by Marriott Santa Cruz
$50+
A 151-room Marriott hotel on Riverside Avenue, two blocks from the beach and the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
0.6 mi awaySwitch it up: Stay
Attractions
Iconic
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
Free
Ride a 1924 wooden roller coaster and a 1911 carousel at a seaside amusement park set right on the sand of Main Beach.
0.8 mi awaySwitch it up: Attractions
Sightseeing
Local Gem
Capitola
Free
A pastel-colored Santa Cruz County beach village built around a small wharf and Capitola Village's shops and restaurants.
3.4 mi awayMore like this
Sightseeing
Local Gem
Los Gatos
Free
A walkable South Bay town at the foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains with a historic creek trail.
20 mi awayMore like this