Enter the Ekhorn Slough Photo Contest

Elkhorn Slough 1700 Elkhorn Road, Watsonville, CA

Enter the Ekhorn Slough Photo Contest Submit by uly 31 Submit your photographs today for the 2023 Ekhorn Slough Calendar contest. Each year our calendar is filled with stunning images that capture the beauty of Elkhorn Slough, and your photo could be the cover for the 2023 calendar! All photos must be submitted by July […]

Recurring Event Visit the Sloughs

Visit the Sloughs

Elkhorn Slough 1700 Elkhorn Road, Watsonville, CA

Visit the Sloughs Watsonville Wetlands Watch is dedicated to the protection, restoration, and fostering of appreciation of the wetlands of the Pajaro Valley, especially involving members of the Watsonville community and the students of the Pajaro Valley Unified School District. Watsonville Wetlands Watch envisions a wetland ecosystem that thrives within Watsonville and the greater Pajaro […]

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Recurring Event Beach Train

Beach Train

Roaring Camp 5401 Graham Hill Road, Felton, CA

Beach Train Saturdays & Sundays depart 10am through September. Choose 1 hour or 5 hour layover Travel from trees to sea, through the Santa Cruz Mountains, arriving at the Boardwalk. Departing weekends through September. Departing from the Santa Cruz Mountains, travel through Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, down the scenic San Lorenzo River Gorge, across […]

Recurring Event Animal Browsing Hours

Animal Browsing Hours

SPCA CA

Animal Browsing Hours Dogs: Wednesdays - Fridays 2-6pm; Saturdays & Sundays 11am- 3pm Cats: Wednesdays - Sundays 11am - 6pm Time's are a changin'! We've officially expanded open hours! We're looking forward to showing off our new building and hope you love it as much as we, and the animals do. Thank you for your […]

Recurring Event Parents Night Out

Parents Night Out

Junebug's Gym 3910 Portola Dr, Ste 2, Santa Cruz, CA

Parents Night Out 2nd and 4th Saturdays, 5:30 - 8:30pm Our February Parents Night Out dates have plenty of availability for sign ups! This 3-hour long event includes gymnastics activities, coach supervision, arts & crafts, and pizza for dinner. Call us at 831-464-2847 or stop by the gym to make your reservation! Time: 5:30 - […]

Mariachi Women Warriors 

Mello Center for the Performing Arts 250 East Beach Street, Watsonville, CA

Mariachi Women Warriors Saturday, May 28, 7pm An incredible concert of Mexican, American, traditional & contemporary music featuring Grammy winners MariachiDivas & the phenom trio ELLAS. Mariachi Divas de Cindy Shea-This all-female mariachi of talented and accomplished musicians has received 2 Grammy awards and earned 11 Grammy nominations. They have also recorded 17 albums. In […]

Opera: The Fairy Queen

UCSC Quarry Theater 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA

Opera: The Fairy Queen Friday, May 27,  7:30pm & Saturday, May 28,  7:30pm A semi-opera by Henry Purcell based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen in a special outdoor production to celebrate the return of fully-staged, live opera at UCSC. The Fairy Queen, considered a semi-opera, was written as incidental […]

Santa Cruz Sandhills Tour

Henry Cowell State Park 101 N Big Trees Park Road, Felton, CA

Santa Cruz Sandhills Tour Sunday, May 29,  10am Join us for an approximately 2 mile guided walk through Santa Cruz’s most sensitive ecosystem: The Sandhills. Learn all about the creation and origin, as well as the uniquely adapted plants and animals found in this area. Come experience a landscape that you would not expect to […]

Pancake Breakfast

Corralitos Communty Center 35 Browns Valley Rd, Corralitos, CA

Pancake Breakfast Sunday, May 29, dawn - noon Corralitos Padres,    Founded in 1959, this nonprofit group comes together to raise money for various youth organizations throughout the area. Corralitos Communty Center 61st annual Corralitos Padres lumberjack Breakfast $22 adults $15 5-12 under 5 free

Recurring Event Beach Train

Beach Train

Roaring Camp 5401 Graham Hill Road, Felton, CA

Beach Train Saturdays & Sundays depart 10am through September. Choose 1 hour or 5 hour layover Travel from trees to sea, through the Santa Cruz Mountains, arriving at the Boardwalk. Departing weekends through September. Departing from the Santa Cruz Mountains, travel through Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, down the scenic San Lorenzo River Gorge, across […]

Recurring Event Corralitos Farm & Garden Market

Corralitos Farm & Garden Market

Corralitos Farm & Garden Market 127 Hames Road, Corralitos, CA

The Farm & Garden Market is a small, friendly, open air market made up of local farmers and gardeners who grow within about a five mile radius of Corralitos. Seasonally we have the tastiest strawberries, blueberries, cherries, lemons, tomatoes, herbs, squash, potatoes, carrots, peas, beets, and avocados, as well as a variety of other fruits, […]

Recurring Event Animal Browsing Hours

Animal Browsing Hours

SPCA CA

Animal Browsing Hours Dogs: Wednesdays - Fridays 2-6pm; Saturdays & Sundays 11am- 3pm Cats: Wednesdays - Sundays 11am - 6pm Time's are a changin'! We've officially expanded open hours! We're looking forward to showing off our new building and hope you love it as much as we, and the animals do. Thank you for your […]

Historias de Cultura: Oaxaca en Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Wharf 21 Municipal Wharf, Santa Cruz

Historias de Cultura: Oaxaca en Santa Cruz Sunday,May 29,  2 - 2:45pm City Arts Recovery Design (CARD) pilot program project kicks off this Sunday at the Santa Cruz Wharf Stage! The longtime community non-profit, Senderos, plans to use CARD funding to develop and present a diverse event called Historias de Cultura: Oaxaca en Santa Cruz. […]