Points of Interest While in Santa Cruz
- Mystery Spot
- Visitors and trees lean at crazy angles, balls defy gravity by rolling up hill.
- Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad
- Visit this 1880’s logging town set in the redwoods of San Lorenzo Valley, ride a narrow-gauge steam train.
- Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
- Ride the historic 1911 merry-go-round or the Giant Dipper (originally built in 1923), other contemporary rides, Virtual Reality games, laser tag.
- Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf
- A panoramic view of the bay, the Wharf is also a good place for fishing and crabbing. Restaurants, gift shops, deep sea fishing charters, bay cruises, whale watching and sea kayaking are available.
- Lighthouse Point & Santa Cruz Surfing Museum
- West Cliff Drive; has local surfing memorabilia dating back 100 years.
- Long Marine Laboratory & Aquarium
- Research facility featuring an 85 foot blue whale skeleton, touch tanks and tidepool aquariums.
(More local information can be found at SantaCruz.com)
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