SANTA CRUZ AND THEREABOUT 



SANTA CRUZ, or New Santa Cruz, as the citizens call it since the 

 wonderful recent revival, is on the northern side of the bay on a 

 peninsula that separates the bay from the ocean. Behind it rise 

 the Santa Cruz Mountains. This peninsula has a fine variety of 

 terraces and levels, and on the ocean side a beautiful bathing beach. 



The city of 8,000 people has many handsome homes, good streets, 

 water system, schools, public buildings, electric cars, electric lights, sewers, 

 etc. Many wealthy people reside here the year round to enjoy its superb 

 climate and charming scenery of mountain and ocean. 



According to Dr. David Starr Jordan, no American body of water has 

 a greater variety of fish than the bay that laps the shore of Santa Cruz. 

 The royal king salmon in summer congregates in greater numbers here 

 than anywhere else on the coast, affording the finest fishing imaginable. 

 Steelheads and rainbow trout abound in all the mountain streams. The 

 forest-covered mountains are a retreat for quail and deer. The lagoons 

 in fall and winter are feeding-places for all varieties of wild ducks. 



The tent city, pavilion, casino, and baths, representing an expenditure 

 of $225,000, were opened last season, and Santa Cruz had practically the 

 greatest concourse of pleasure-seekers on the coast. The burned pavilion 

 is being restored on a grander scale. Almost nightly concerts and balls, 

 illuminations, society and fraternal gatherings, etc., are planned for the 

 entertainment of visitors. 



Bathing (unexcelled), boating, yachting, fishing, drives to the ocean 

 cliffs and their caverns, to the wave motor, up the coast to San Vicente, 

 etc., to the Big Trees, up the canons of the San Lorenzo, Sequel, and 

 other streams are among the attractions. 



Santa Cruz is a winter as well as summer resort, and the fine hotels, 

 Sea Beach and St. George, and the lesser ones, such as the Riverside, are 

 filled the year round with a constantly increasing throng of Eeastern tourists 

 in the winter and visitors from the interior valleys in the summer. 



The Hotel del Mar is a pretty resort, with upland and ocean, two miles 

 west of Santa Cruz, under the auspices of the Catholic Ladies' Aid Society. 

 Bus meets trains at Santa Cruz. 



Seabright is a popular cottage resort adjoining the Tent City and Santa 

 Cruz. The railroad has established an agency here. 



Twin Lakes, a Baptist resort of unusual beauty, a half mile east of 

 Santa Cruz, on the railroad, has a good hotel (the Surf) and a large audi- 

 torium. The Twin Lakes are Seabright and Swan, on either side of the park. 



Capitola is four miles east from Santa Cruz — "a great place for chil- 

 dren." This place of cottages and hotels is built on the broad beach that 

 lies between the bay and the flaring mouth of Sequel Creek. It's a fresh 

 and salt water resort — both. Under private control, Capitola is conducted 

 as a model resort. Its beach is unsurpassed. The large Capitola Hotel is 

 near the water, in a most delightful location. Off Capitola the salmon 

 fishing is fine. The place is both a summer and winter resort. 



Aptos, an old-time seaside resort at the mouth of Aptos Creek, has a 

 delightful "back country" of apple orchards, redwood forests, stock farms, 

 and mountains. 



From Santa Cruz runs a broad-gauge railway branch through these 

 resorts to Watsonville and Pajaro, connecting with the main coast line at 

 Pajaro. 



