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.

Although not particularly abundant, the small amount of pink in the otherwise white sand gives a distinct color to the beaches of Bermuda. Fifty miles south of Santa Cruz at the mouth of the Big ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Main Beach is also known as Boardwalk Beach since it stretches the length of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. In the summer, it's one of the busiest beaches in Santa Cruz thanks to its ...

More than a thousand people stood in protest in the sand on Saturday at Main Beach in Santa Cruz to create a human banner ...

A local marine wildlife photographer captured images of young great white sharks who appear to be “smiling” as they swim close to Santa Cruz County beaches. The underwater photographs, shot by ...