Located just west of central Santa Cruz, Wilder Ranch State Park is a 1800s-era dairy ranch, home to a Victorian homestead and a water-powered machine shop (both of which travelers can tour).

(Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel) Seals loll in the midday sun on a beach below the Ohlone Bluff Trail at Wilder Ranch ...

It’s Thursday, and I’m at the midpoint of the 2.5-mile Old Cove Landing Trail in Santa Cruz’s Wilder Ranch State Park, standing directly underneath the mouth of Fern Grotto Beach’s sea cave.

THE 31 YEAR OLD MAN FROM SANTA CRUZ WAS DECLARED A MISSING PERSON.. AND THE MISSION TURNED INTO A SEARCH AND RECOVERY A hiker is missing after jumping into the ocean at Wilder Ranch State Park on ...

All around the UC campus, all around Wilder State Park, and all the way to Henry Cowell State Park, you’ll find some of the best mountain biking on the West Coast. Santa Cruz Mountain Bikes is ...