Area Description: It is an easy three minute walk to West Cliff Drive and our oldest Lighthouse. You are a five minute walk to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, and a fifteen minutes walk to historic downtown. Santa Cruz offers our beaches, Boardwalk thrills and rides, dog friendly parks, basketball courts, soccer, a new million dollar skateboard park & one of the top surfing area. We have the San Lorenzo river, Stagnaro's and Gilda's on the wharf, renowned Marianne's ice cream, and the Pacific Cookie Company. Seabright brewery and the wonderful and fabulous Pacific Ocean. Close by in town are Cinemas, Libraries, Museums, Laundromats, Hospitals and Churches. Spectacular sunsets are included at no extra charge at the end of West Cliff Drive in the Natural Bridges State Park home of Monarch butterflies. It is a short drive south to the Monterey Peninsula. Or a little longer drive north up the famous Pacific Coast H ... [Read More]

Area Description: It is an easy three minute walk to West Cliff Drive and our oldest Lighthouse. You are a five minute walk to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, and a fifteen minutes walk to historic downtown. Santa Cruz offers our beaches, Boardwalk thrills and rides, dog friendly parks, basketball courts, soccer, a new million dollar skateboard park & one of the top surfing area. We have the San Lorenzo river, Stagnaro's and Gilda's on the wharf, renowned Marianne's ice cream, and the Pacific Cookie Company. Seabright brewery and the wonderful and fabulous Pacific Ocean. Close by in town are Cinemas, Libraries, Museums, Laundromats, Hospitals and Churches. Spectacular sunsets are included at no extra charge at the end of West Cliff Drive in the Natural Bridges State Park home of Monarch butterflies. It is a short drive south to the Monterey Peninsula. Or a little longer drive north up the famous Pacific Coast Highway to Davenport, Half Moon Bay, Pacifica or San Francisco. You can head to the beach or the Santa Cruz Mountains, Henry Cowell’s State Park and Big Sur to name a few. Our Redwoods are spectacular. A trip to Roaring Camp will allow you to board a steam train that will take you through a forest of trees.