With rugged beauty and consistent waves, Santa Cruz is a surfer’s paradise. Here’s where and when to get your board in the ocean, and how to respect the marine wildlife.

The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum overlooks one of the most renowned surfing spots in Santa Cruz – Steamer Lane. Along with historic surfing photographs and boards, the museum features a bevy of ...

Santa Cruz remains famous for consistent swells and its protected curved coastline, and was formally dedicated as a World Surfing Reserve in 2012. Surfing has been steadily increasing in ...

Santa Cruz has no shortage of surf shops and surf ... Amid the rocky cliff sides of the Pacific Northwest, you'll find welcoming, sandy surf spots throughout the Devils Punchbowl State Natural ...

A rippable small-wave spot, 26th Ave. will hold slightly overhead ... There are lots of really talented surfers in Santa Cruz, and with all the pointbreaks around town, 26th Ave.

You can also stop in to the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum along your stroll ... pristine vistas of the Pacific Ocean and you might even spot some surfers riding the waves at Steamer Lane or whales ...

Surf picks up as mix of long-period SSW swell and shorter-period WNW swell builds, setting up wide spread head high+ waves as better breaks go overhead, showing most size back half of the day.

Living just on the other side of the Santa Cruz Mountains from the beach means I regularly head there for a day in the sand. The best of all worlds is when I can play tourist for a night or two and ...

Santa Cruz’s John Mel won in his opening heat Friday at the World Surf League’s Vans Jack’s Surfboards Pro, a Qualifying ...

the Surf Ranch and Santa Cruz in the United States. The latter contest is happening this month on April 27. The eighth annual Santa Cruz event will be held at Pleasure Point, the famous right-hand ...