Here are our favorite Santa Cruz beaches! Numerous Coast Dairies ... if you are looking for an expansive stretch of white sand to relax on. The beach comprises a mile of sandy shoreline stretching ...

Most beach towns are happy to have just one spectacular strand, but Santa Cruz offers a wealth of possibilities — beach after beach along the city shoreline and more up and down the coast.

The Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf is open. The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk amusement park is partially open. Rides are closed, but the Casino Arcade, Neptune’s Kingdom, Mini Golf, some games ...

SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz County is moving forward with new beach restrictions in response to a hot weekend that saw beachgoers crowding the sand. Starting “this weekend,” all beaches in the ...

Surfers and coastal lovers are getting antsy to get back on the beach. The ongoing debate over ... especially as the weather warmed this week. Santa Cruz officials on Thursday, April 16, lifted ...

SANTA CRUZ — Sign postings leading to the surf of Cowell Beach, just west of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, ban all the usual transgressions: diving, fires, litter, smoking, feeding the birds ...

A great white shark attack in Santa Cruz has triggered a four-day beach ban by city officials. The decision comes after a shark on Tuesday chomped on a man's kayak near a popular surfing spot next ...

the county and the city to enforce the beach closure. It was unimaginable over a long period of time," said Santa Cruz County Health Officer Dr. Gail Newel.Closing the beaches was to discourage ...

Amador said he requires a big beach for his work, with nearby elevation for photography. Santa Cruz offers “only a couple of spots where something like that is possible,” he said, but an ...

Santa Cruz (WFLA)— Dramatic video captured by onlookers shows a stranded great white shark struggling to survive. Dozens of people watched from the cliffs of Pleasure Point in Santa Cruz ...