The trains take two different routes – the Redwood Forest Steam Train is a 75-minute round-trip ride up Bear Mountain; the Santa Cruz Beach Train is a three-hour round-trip ride from the Santa ...

SANTA CRUZ — Like students at college campuses across the state and the country, hundreds of UC Santa Cruz students gathered in Quarry Plaza on the university’s campus around noon on May 1 and ...

when fire erupted in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Tens of thousands of trees were incinerated, and most of the park remains closed, its infrastructure – including 150 campsites – destroyed.