For a hiking and biking haven just outside of Santa Cruz, head to this gorgeous state park full of soaring redwoods and ...

The Santa Cruz Branch Line has been hotly contested for years. The debate now focuses on a looming Capitola City Council decision that may allow the rail trail to detour out of the corridor, through ...

The 6,000-acre Cotoni Coast Dairies, a swath of mountainous terrain with scenic woodlands, Pacific Ocean vistas and miles of newly-cut trails, will open to the public for the first time in August. The ...

For decades, the scenic oceanfront landscape along Highway 1 north of Santa Cruz — with its coastal bluffs, rugged beaches, farm fields and redwood canyons — has been the site of big environmental ...