Santa Cruz , Spain: Holy Cross ) is the city center and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California. In 2013 the US Census Bureau estimates the Santa Cruz population at 62,864.
Located on the northern edge of Monterey Bay, about 32 miles (51 km) south of San Jose and 75 miles (120 km) south of San Francisco, the city is part of the 12-county San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Regional Statistics.
Santa Cruz is known for its moderate climate, natural environment, coastline, redwood forest, alternative community lifestyles, and social liberal tendencies. It is also home to the University of California, Santa Cruz, major research institutes and educational centers, as well as the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, a seaside theme park that has been operating continuously since 1907.
The current Santa Cruz site is the location of a Spanish settlement that began in 1791, including Mission Santa Cruz and pueblo from Branciforte. After the Mexican-American War of 1846-48, California became the 31st state in 1850. The city of Santa Cruz was founded in 1866 and leased in April 1876. Important important industries include wood, gunpowder, lime and agriculture. At the end of the 19th century, Santa Cruz established itself as a coastal resort community.
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History
Awaswa and Pre-contact Period
Prior to the arrival of Spanish troops, missionaries, and colonists in the late 18th century, Santa Cruz County was home to the natives of Awaswa. The Ohlone mistake, while often used to describe the natives of the Santa Cruz area, is a common name for many diverse groups living in an area that stretches from San Francisco to Monterey Bay. The diverse and numerous tribes in this region were also previously referred to by the Spanish as the Coastanoan. The term "Ohlone" has been used as a substitute for "Costanoan" since the 1970s by several descendants and by most ethnographers, historians, and literary writers. Awaswa is one of eight Costanoan languages ​​and forms an Native American tribe living in Western Santa Cruz County, stretching a little north of Davenport to Rio Del Mar. Awaswas tribe consists of no more than a thousand people and their language is now extinct. The only remnants of their spoken language are three local place names: Aptos, Soquel and Zayante; and the name of the original shell - abalon. The majority of the Ohlone or Coastanoan tribes have no written language, and live in small villages scattered around Monterey Bay and the San Francisco Bay area. Within fifty years after the arrival of the Spaniards, the Ohlone or Coastanoan culture and way of life completely vanished in the Gulf region. Today, two of the Coastanoan tribes, Awaswa people are 'visualized' in Santa Cruz and Mutsun people who are 'initialized' in San Juan Bautista, have joined together as the Amah Mutsan Band in an effort to protect and sustain a culture that authentic and different. history and practice. Spanish/Mexican Period
The first European continental exploration in Alta California, the Spanish Portolao expedition led by Gaspar de PortolÃÆ', passed through the area on its way north, still searching for the "Monterey port" described by Sebastian Vizcaino in 1602. The party confiscated the river (probably near the spot Soquel Avenue Bridge now stands) and camped nearby on October 17, 1769. Franciscan Missionary Juan CrespÃÆ', traveling on an expedition, noted in his diary that, "This river is named San Lorenzo." (for Saint Lawrence).
The next morning, the expedition set off again, and Crespi noted that, "Five hundred steps after we started, we crossed the fine arroyo from the flowing water that descended from some of the high hills where the mountain was rising, named" El Arroyo de la Santisima Cruz, translated literally as "The Flow of the Holy Cross").
In 1791, Father FermÃÆ'n LasuÃÆ' Â © n continued the use of the Crespi name when he declared the establishment of La Mission de la Exaltación de la Santa Cruz (also known as Mission Santa Cruz) for the conversion of Awaswas Ohlone villages in Chatu Mu and surrounding areas. Santa Cruz is the twelfth mission established in California. However, the creek then lost its name, and is now known as Laurel Creek because it is parallel to Laurel Street. This is the main feeder of Neary Lagoon.
In 1797, Governor Diego de Borica, on the orders of Viceroy of New Spain, Miguel de la GrÃÆ'ºa Talamanca y Branciforte, marquÃÆ' Â © de Branciforte, founded the Villa de Branciforte, a city named in honor of the young king. One of only three civilian cities founded in California during the Spanish colonial period (the other two being Los Angeles and San Jose), Villa is located across the San Lorenzo River, less than a mile from the Mission. The original main road now is North Branciforte Avenue. Villa de Branciforte then lost its citizenship status, and in 1905 the area was annexed to the City of Santa Cruz.
In the 1820s, newly independent Mexico took over the territory. After the secularization of the Mission in 1834, the government sought to rename the community that grew up around the Mission, to Pueblo de Figueroa (after the ex-governor). But the title pueblo was never made official. The new name does not catch up and Santa Cruz remains Santa Cruz. The mission and grazing farms, once extended from the San Lorenzo River in the north along the coast to the Santa Cruz County border today, are taken and broken down into large land grants called ranchos. The grant was made by several different governors between 1834 and 1845 (see Ranchos of California List).
Only two ranchos are really within the confines of the city of Santa Cruz today. Rancho Potrero Y Rincon de San Pedro Regalado consists mostly of flat grasslands on the river bed just north of Mission Hill ("potrero" is translated "grassland"). Rancho Tres Ojos de Agua is on the west side. The three other rancho boundaries then became part of the modern city limits: Rancho Refugio in the west. Rancho Carbonera in the north, and Rancho Arroyo del Rodeo on the east.
After secularization placed most of California land into private hands, immigrants from the United States began to arrive with an ever-increasing number, especially in 1840 when land routes such as the California Trail opened. In 1848, after the Mexican-American War, Mexico surrendered the Alta California region to the US in the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty. California was the first part of the territory to become a country, in 1850. Santa Cruz County was founded in the same year, and Santa Cruz was incorporated as a city in 1866.
The Mission of Santa Cruz, along with twenty-one other Franciscan missions, was secularized within a few years after 1833. Even before secularization, the Indian population had declined, and the building of the brick began slowly falling apart from wet weather and lack of maintenance. The chapel towers fell in 1840 and the entire front wall was destroyed in the 1857 quake of Fort Tejon. In 1858 the "modern" church was built next to the back of the remaining chapels. The rest was destroyed in 1889, when the Church of the Holy Cross was built today on the site, in gothic style.
Native
The native American Santa Cruz is known as the Ohlone people, who occupy the area from Monterey to San Francisco. The Spaniards call them "Costanos". Costanos comes from the Spanish word costa (beach). "Ohlone" is the newer name for the same language group. The Costanos (anglisa as "Costanoan") speak with eight known dialects, each defining a different tribal area. During the mission era, the number of indigenous people in the Bay Area, including Santa Cruz, began to decline rapidly. Many indigenous people who were brought to life on mission (neophytes) died of European diseases they did not tolerate. When the mission is closed, most of the remaining neophytes living in missions become laborers at ranchos who inherit missionary land.
The Costanoan's ancestors were thought to have originated in San Francisco and the Monterey Bay Area of ​​the San Joaquin-Sacramento River system around about 500. With the arrival of the Spaniards, the Costanoans suffered a cultural breakdown. During their time with missions, the Costanoan people experienced cultural shock, persecution, and disease brought from Europe. In 1834, 14 years after Mexico won its independence from Spain, twenty-one California missions were secularized. The vast lands they were supposed to hold in honor of the converted natives mostly went to friends and family from the Alta California government (including some foreign immigrants who had married the Californio family). The remaining Costanoan/Ohlone mission members fought to survive, and many became servants or farm laborers or vaqueros (cowboys). Some small communities are formed after this which promotes old ways but in different locations from their homeland.
Initial industrial years
Elihu Anthony (1818-1905) arrived in Santa Cruz, California in 1847 and opened much of his first experience for the city of Santa Cruz; including the first Protestant church, the first blacksmith, he built the first pier and was the first postmaster. He developed the first commercial block in downtown Santa Cruz with an early blacksmith found on the corner of Pacific Street and Mission Street. Anthony with Frederick A. Hihn, building the first private water supply network in the city and serving the surrounding community. The establishment of a railroad in Santa Cruz from 1876 to 1881 with the Santa Cruz Train, brought workers to Santa Cruz and provided market access to the town's wood, leather and limestone industries.
Civil War
California Powder Works began producing explosive powder for California mining when normal supplies were disrupted by the American Civil War. A powder mill built on the San Lorenzo River in the upper reaches of Santa Cruz using charcoal and powder powder made from local forests. The factory then produces smokeless powders used in United States Krag-JÃÆ'¸rgensen Armed Forces rifles and weapons from the Pacific and Asiatic Navy fleets of the United States. The factory was severely damaged by a series of explosions at night on April 26, 1898. The explosion caused debris to fall down on the Mission Hill and caused a fire that threatened the city. This powder worked 150 to 275 men until the operation stopped in 1914.
Recent history
Santa Cruz was devastated by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that killed three people. It was also hit by the ocean waves caused by the earthquake and tsunami of T 'hoku 2011, where the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor retained about $ 10 million damage, with another damage of $ 4 million for ships docked there.
Social activism
Founded in 1976, The Resource Center for Nonviolence is one of the oldest and most centrally located non-profit organizations committed to political and social activism in Santa Cruz County. The center is "dedicated to promoting the principles of nonviolent social change and improving the quality of life and human dignity". In 1998, the Santa Cruz community declared itself a Nuclear Free Zone, and in 2003, the City Council of Santa Cruz became the first US Council to denounce the Iraq War. The Santa Cruz City Council also issued a proclamation against the US PATRIOT Act.
As a center of liberal and progressive activism, Santa Cruz became one of the first cities to approve marijuana for medicinal purposes. In 1992, residents strongly agreed on Size A, which allowed the use of drug marijuana. Santa Cruz is home to a medical marijuana club on the second ground in the world when the Santa Cruz Cannabis Buyers Club opened its doors in April 1995. Santa Cruz also became one of the first cities in California to test state medical marijuana law in court after the capture of Valerie Corral and Mike Corral, founder of Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, by DEA. This case is for farmers. In 2005, the Santa Cruz City Council established a municipal office to help residents obtain medical marijuana. On November 7, 2006, Santa Cruz voters passed Measure K with a 64-36 percent vote. Measuring K makes mature non-medical marijuana offenses the lowest priority for law enforcement; this does not apply to cultivation, distribution, sales in public, sales to minors, or driving under the influence. The move prompted Santa Cruz city officials to send letters annually to state and federal representatives advocating marijuana law reform.
Leading feminist activists Nikki Craft and Ann Simonton live in Santa Cruz, where they form the "Prayer Mantis Brigade". This collection of activists organized the "Myth California Pageant" in the 1980s protesting "the objectification of women and the glorification of beauty myths." The myth of California was staged in conjunction with the Miss California contest held in Santa Cruz since the 1920s. The protests lasted for nine years and eventually contributed to the Miss California contest leaving Santa Cruz. Simonton founded and coordinated the non-profit group "Media Watch" which monitors and critiques media images of women and ethnic minorities. Starting in 1983, Santa Cruz hosted birthday shows, chants, parades, and protests that focused on the issue of violence against women.
The unrest occurred on May 1, 2010, when leftist extremists threw paint jars into police cars and painted anarchist symbols and anti-capitalist phrases into buildings. Property damage is estimated to be around $ 100,000. Before the riots, Labor Day rallies were held for workers' and immigrant rights. According to police, the rally was infiltrated by a local anarchist group, who used the rally as a cover to attack the company premises. The riots began when the protesters began destroying nearby buildings; at 10:30, roughly a dozen buildings have been damaged. This was then intensified when a group of about ten people started breaking shop windows at about 11:05 pm. Several police officers were stationed in the center of the city, but retreated after demonstrators hurled stones at their vehicles. After calling reserve resources from across the region, law enforcement reached a riot at 11:23 am, more than 45 minutes after it was initiated, due to a large number of fake 911 calls, diverting police forces across the region.
Occupy Santa Cruz was formed as an autonomous organization in solidarity with the Occupy movement around the world, a broad-based protest against perceived economic and social inequality. Occupy Santa Cruz is most active in the fall of 2011, and includes more than a thousand active members at its peak. The organization gets most of the publicity when members enter the vacant bank building owned by Wells Fargo. and occupies the building for 72 hours. 11 criminal charges are filed, at least seven of which have since been dropped.
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Geography
According to the US Census Bureau, the city covers an area of ​​15.8 square miles (41 km 2 ), of which 12.7 square miles (33 km 2 ) is ground , and 3.1 square miles (8.0 km 2 ) (19.51%) are water.
Climate
Santa Cruz has cool weather throughout the year, experiencing a warm summer-summer climate characterized by a cool and wet winter and warm and mostly dry summers. Due to its proximity to Monterey Bay, fog and low clouds often occur during the night and early morning, especially in summer.
Economy
The main industries of Santa Cruz are agriculture, tourism, education (UC Santa Cruz) and high technology. Santa Cruz is the center of the organic farming movement, and many specialty products as well as housing headquarters of California Certified Organic Farmers. Attractions include the classic Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk on the beach, redwood forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains above the city, and Monterey Bay, which is protected as a marine sanctuary.
Top entrepreneurs
In 2014, the top companies in the city are:
Demographics
2000
Recorded from the 2000 census, there were 54,593 people in total with 20,442 households and 10,404 families living in the city. Population density includes 1,682.2/km² (4,356.0/sqÃ, mi). There are 21,504 housing units with an average density of 1,715.8 per square mile (662.6/km²). City's racial makeup is 78.7% White, 17.4% Hispanic or Latin, 1.7% African American, 0.9% Native American, 4.9% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Island, 9.1% of other races, and 4.5% of two races or more.
There are 20,442 households in which 25.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.0% are married couples living together, 9.6% have a housewife with no husband present, and 49.1 % is not a family. 29.3% of all households are individuals and 7.6% have a self-sufficient 65 or older. The average household size is 2.44 and the average family size is 2.98.
In the city, the age distribution of the population shows 17.3% under the age of 18, 20.5% from 18 to 24, 32.6% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 8.5% 65 years or older. The average age is 32 years. For every 100 women, there are 99.2 males. For every 100 women age 18 and over, there are 97.9 men ages 18 and over.
The average income for households in the city is $ 50,605, and the average income for families is $ 62,231 (these numbers have increased to $ 59,172 and $ 80,496 respectively as from 2007 estimates). Men have an average income of $ 44,751 versus $ 32,699 for women. The per capita income for the city is $ 25,758. About 6.6% of families and 16.5% of the population are below the poverty line, including 12.5% ​​of those under the age of 18 and 4.8% of those aged 65 and older.
2010
The US Census 2010 reports that Santa Cruz has a population of 59,946 inhabitants. Population density was 3.787.2 people per square mile (1.462.3/km ²). The makeup of the Santa Cruz races is 44,661 (74.5%) White, 1.071 (1.8%) African American, 440 (0.7%) Native Americans, 4.591 (7.7%) Asia, 108 (0.2% ) Of the Pacific Islands, 5,673 (9.5%) of the other races, and 3,402 (5.7%) of two or more races. Hispanic or Latin from any race is 11,624 people (19.4%).
The Census reported that 51,657 people (86.2% of the population) lived in households, 7,910 (13.2%) lived in unembienced groups, and 379 (0.6%) were institutionalized.
There are 21,657 households, of which 4,817 (22.2%) have children under the age of 18 living in them, 7,310 (33.8%) are married couples living together, 1,833 (8.5% ) had a female household without a husband present, 862 (4.0%) had a male household without a wife. There are 1,802 (8.3%) unmarried partners of the opposite sex, and 379 (1.8%) married couples or couples of the same sex. 6,773 households (31.3%) consisted of individuals and 1,862 (8.6%) had someone living alone 65 or older. The average household size is 2.39. There were 10,005 families (46.2% of all households); the average family size is 2.92.
The age distribution of the population showed 8,196 people (13.7%) under the age of 18, 17,449 people (29.1%) aged 18 to 24, 15,033 people (25.1%) aged 25 to 44, 13,983 persons (23.3% ) aged 45 to 64, and 5,285 people (8.8%) aged 65 years or older. The median age was 29.9 years. For every 100 women, there are 100.5 men. For every 100 women age 18 and over, there are 99.7 men.
There are 23,316 units of homes with an average density of 1,473.0 per square mile (568.7/km²), of which 9.375 (43.3%) are occupied owners, and 12,282 (56.7%) are occupied by tenants. Homeowner vacancy rate is 1.2%; rental vacancy rate is 3.4%. 22,861 people (38.1% of the population) live in housing units occupied by owners and 28,796 people (48.0%) live in rental housing units. The average home price is $ 640,000 per April 2013.
Public crime and security
Santa Cruz consistently suffers the highest per capita property crime rate for medium and large cities in the state of California, in addition to some of the highest violent crime rates in the state of California for medium and large cities. In addition, Santa Cruz suffered some of the highest homeless rates in the US, with 9,041 homeless forecasts in Santa Cruz County in 2011, about 3.5% of the total population of the region. with over 52% of homeless persons experiencing some form of mental illness, including clinical depression or PTSD and more than 26% suffering from unspecified mental illness. In addition, 38% of the homeless surveyed in Santa Cruz County in 2011 experienced drug and/or alcohol dependence. In recent years, community groups such as Take Back Santa Cruz, established in 2009, have lobbied city governments and officials to overcome the public safety crisis that has garnered national attention.
In 1973, with the discovery of four bodies at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, then District Attorney Peter Chang grumbled a comment about "Murderville, USA." It was taken by a journalist and went to the wire service as "Murder Capital of the World."
Government
In the California State Legislature Santa Cruz is in the 17th Senate District, represented by Democrat Bill Monning, and in the 29th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Mark Stone.
In the United States House of Representatives, Santa Cruz is split between the 18th congress district of California, represented by Democrat Anna Eshoo, and the 20th congress district in California, represented by Democrat Jimmy Panetta.
Twin Cities
Santa Cruz has five twin cities in other countries, selected cities to strengthen international connections. A committee of citizen volunteers organizes cultural exchange opportunities, humanitarian projects, and commercial relationships between Santa Cruz and its sister cities.
- Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela - since 1966
- Shing ?, Wakayama, Japan - since 1974
- Alushta, Ukraine - since 1987
- Jinotepe, Nicaragua
- Sestri Levante, Italy
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain are former twin cities.
Transportation
State Routes 1 and 17 are the main roads in and out of Santa Cruz, with the latter being the main route north to San Jose and the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area. Geographically bounded between the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Monterey Bay, the narrow transportation corridor served by SR 1, California's Pacific Coast Road, suffers from excessive congestion. The road from SR 1 to the north to SR 17 to the south, to Ocean Street, commonly known as "fish hook" due to its tightening curve. A project to expand these highways and exchanges began in 2006 and completed in the fall of 2008.
The Metropolitan Transit District of Santa Cruz provides bus services throughout Santa Cruz County.
Amtrak serves Santa Cruz via Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach from rail connections at Amtrak San Jose Diridon Train Station operated by the Santa Cruz Transit District of Santa Cruz in partnership with Amtrak, Capitol Corridor, and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. Other rail connections such as Altamont Corridor Express and Caltrain are also available at Amtrak's San Jose passenger station.
The Greyhound Lines bus service is another option, though less commonly used, to visit Santa Cruz.
The nearest airports served by major commercial airlines are the San Jose International Airport, Monterey Regional Airport, San Francisco International Airport, and Oakland International Airport. The nearest public airport of any kind is Watsonville Municipal Airport, about eight miles to the southeast, serving the general aviation user.
Santa Cruz has a network of bicycle paths and extensive bike trails. Most highways have bike trails, and a wide bike lane recently installed on Beach Street, near the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. In addition, there is a bike lane embankment along the San Lorenzo River. A Rail Trail - bike lanes and pedestrians alongside the existing coastal rail line - is under consideration.
Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway operate a diesel electric train between Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and Roaring Camp in Felton, via Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, with the famous Redwood Grove walking track.
The Santa Cruz Railroad is a narrow rail that operates between Santa Cruz and Pajaro, California.
Education
Santa Cruz is home to several prominent educational institutions, including Soquel High School, Aptos High School, Harbor High School, Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparation School (private school grades 6-12), Pacific Collegiate School (grade 7-12) High Cypress Charter, Santa Cruz Montessori (private school 18 months to 15 years) Monterey Coast Preparatory (also private schools 6-12), Santa Cruz High School, University of California, Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College, (which is near Aptos and has several classes in the city of Santa Cruz), and the Five Branches University.
Long Marine Laboratory is a marine research facility in the western end of town.
Tourism
City Center
By the 1860s, Pacific Avenue had become the main street in downtown Santa Cruz, and remains so today. Local architect Kermit Darrow and landscape architect Roy Rydell were involved in 1969 to convert several blocks of Pacific Avenue into a semi-pedestrian street called Pacific Garden Mall. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake destroyed almost all of the 19th century buildings in the city center. After the earthquake, the Pacific Garden Mall theme was eliminated, and the updated urban design plan by the ROMA Design Group was implemented. By 2016, only one empty lot remains on Pacific Avenue from the devastation of the 1989 earthquake.
Downtown Santa Cruz stores a variety of storefronts and businesses. This is also the stage for a lot of street performers, musicians, and artists, often creating a presence of background music and a variety of street entertainment when visiting downtown. As a result, Pacific Avenue serves as an outlet for artistic and unique culture which is owned Santa Cruz.
Parks, beaches, greenbelt district, and marine protected area
Santa Cruz is home to several state parks and beaches, including Lighthouse Field State Beach, Natural Bridges State Beach, Santa Cruz State Historical Park, Twin Lakes State Beach, and Seabright State Beach.
Santa Cruz has three greenbelt open-space properties along the city limits, including Arana Gulch, Moore Creek, and Pogonip. There are also five community parks and eighteen environmental parks.
Pogonip Open Space is located adjacent to the University of California, Santa Cruz. It includes second growth oaks and redwood forest, grasslands and several rivers, and is crossed by several hiking trails. Pogonip is the name of the previous country club there, who once owned a golf course and a polo field. Pogonip's name comes from a combination of "polo", "golf" and "nip" alcoholics that are sometimes followed or accompanied by the pursuits.
Natural Bridges State Marine Reserve is a marine protected area off the coast at the northern tip of Santa Cruz. Like underwater parks, marine protected areas help preserve marine life and marine ecosystems. Most of the rest of the Santa Cruz coastline is located adjacent to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
Sports and leisure
Santa Cruz is famous for water sports such as sailing, diving, swimming, standing oars, rowing, and is considered one of the world's best surfing spots. It is the home of O'Neill Wetsuits and Santa Cruz Surfboards, as well as Santa Cruz Skateboards and Santa Cruz Bicycles. The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is the oldest amusement park in California and the Designated Landmark Historic Country. It is operated by the family, and celebrated Centennial in 2007. It is home to the iconic Giant Dipper roller coaster, which is currently the fifth oldest taster in the United States. House to National Historic Landmark, 1911 Charles I. D. Looff Carousel and 1924 Giant Dipper roller coaster, Boardwalk has been owned and operated by Santa Cruz Seaside Company since 1915.
In one of the first published descriptions of surfing in California, the three Hawaiian princes, Prince David Kaw? Nanakoa, Prince Edward Abnel Keli? Iahonui and Prince Jonah Kalaniana ? Ole, surfing the local redwood boards at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River in July 1885. Santa Cruz has 11 world-class surf breaks, including a break point on the rock bottom near Steamer Lane and Pleasure Point, which creates some of the best surfing waves in this world. The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum at Steamer Lane is managed by guides from the Santa Cruz Surfing Club who have been surfing the Santa Cruz waves since the 1930s. Santa Cruz hosts several surfing contests that attract international participants each year, including O'Neill Cold Water Classic, the International Longboard Association contest, and more.
The Santa Cruz Wharf is known for fishing, viewing marine mammals and other recreations. The local park offers many opportunities to watch birds and butterflies, as well as outdoor sports such as skateboarding, cycling, camping, hiking, and rock climbing. The Santa Cruz Skatepark is open to the public 7 days a week and is free. In addition to its reputation in surfing and skateboarding, Santa Cruz is known for other sports such as discs and golf discs. The De Laveaga Disc Golf Course is designed by the local sports hall of fame and disc sports promoter Tom Schot, host of the PDGA tournament, including the annual Masters Cup. De Laveaga is a disc golf and discathon venue for the WFDF-approved World Disc Games as a whole held in Santa Cruz in July 2005.
In recent years, Santa Cruz has been home to some minor league and amateur sports teams. The Santa Cruz Warriors (NBA G League team), and Santa Cruz Derby Girls (amateur roller derby league) regularly play at the Kaiser Permanente Arena.
Cultural attractions
Santa Cruz has a number of cultural institutions and other attractions, including the University of California, Santa Cruz, Arboretum; Mission Santa Cruz; Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History; Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History; Santa Cruz Art League (which includes art galleries, theaters, and classrooms); Santa Cruz Surfing Museum (housed in a lighthouse near Steamer Lane); and the Tannery Art Center.
Cultural event
Santa Cruz County Symphony Founded in 1958, Santa Cruz County Symphony is a fully professional ensemble of 65 members presenting a series of annual concerts at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium and Mello Center in Watsonville. Additional offerings include musician school visits, free concerts for area school children, family concerts and pops concerts.Historic place
- Landmarks on the National Register of Historic Places:
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- A. J. Hinds House (8/25/1983)
- The Allan Brown Site (6/25/1981)
- Bank of Santa Cruz County (3/15/1982)
- Branciforte Adobe (1/31/1979)
- Carmelita Court (3/20/1986)
- Cope Row Houses (1/28/1982)
- Cowell Lime Works Historic District (11/21/2007)
- House of Elias H. Robinson (1/9/1998)
- Garfield Park Branch Library (3/26/1992)
- Golden Gate Villa (7/24/1975)
- Live Oak Ranch (7/10/1975)
- Looff Carousel and Roller Coaster (2/27/1987)
- Mission Hill Area Historic District (5/17/1976)
- Neary-Rodriguez Adobe (2/24/1975)
- Octagon Building (3/24/1971)
- Santa Cruz City Historical District (7/27/1989)
- US Post Office-Santa Cruz Main (1/11/1985)
- Veterans Memorial Building (4/27/1992)
- Landmarks in California Historical Resource List:
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- Santa Cruz Mission
- Villa de Branciforte Center
- Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
Media
Television
The statistical area (or service) of Monterey-Salinas metropolitan (MSA) is served by various local television stations, and is the 124th largest market region (DMA) in the US with 222,900 homes:
- KLFB-LD - Channel 21: - Salinas
- KAAP-LP - Channel 2: - Monterey/Salinas- (Cable Comcast 11) Santa Cruz (Comcast Digital Cable 187)
- KSBW - channel 8: - (NBC; ABC on DT2) - Salinas
- KMUV - channel 15: - (Telemundo) - Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz (Simulcast KSTS 48)
- KQET - channel 25: - (PBS) - Watsonville (Simulcast KQED San ​​Francisco)
- KDJT-CD - channel 33: - (Telefutura) - Salinas/Monterey
- KCBA - channel 35: - (Fox Broadcasting Company) - Salinas
- KMCE - channel 43: - (Azteca) - Monterey/Salinas
- KION - channel 46: - (CBS) - Salinas
- KSMS - channel 67: - (Univision) - Monterey
- KYMB - channel 27: - (TV It) - Monterey
Due to its proximity to San Jose, the city also regularly receives coverage in the San Francisco media market.
Radio
- Zhejiang Music Radio, 96.8 FM
- KSCO, 1080 AM
- KZSC, 88.1 FM
- KHIP, 104.3 FM
- KAPU, 104,7 FM
- KPIG-FM, 107.5 FM
- KDON, 102.5 FM
- BOB FM, 95.5 FM
Newspapers
The Santa Cruz Sentinel is the only Santa Cruz daily newspaper. The area is also served by the weekly newspaper Good Times, purchased in 2014 by the owner of the Santa Cruz Weekly rival, who then combines the two, continuing a paper under Good Times , and official paper Santa Cruz Record . The University of California has its own publication, City on a Hill Press , and an alternative humor publication, Fish Rap Live! . There is also an online newspaper called Santa Cruz Wire .
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