Resilience of Big Basin Redwoods State Park: Even 2020 can’t defeat a forest that has survived ice ages, wildfires and logging sprees People the world over are looking to 2021 to be a year of healing — from division, disease and, here in California, a devastating wildfire season. Nowhere is that truer than in Santa
Relics of the Spanish and Mexican eras, the county’s oldest buildings have fascinating stories to tell.
By Traci Hukill
The Santa Cruz Mountains are a hiker’s paradise. Hundreds of miles of trail crisscross this section of the Coast Range, which extends from southern Santa Cruz County all the way to San Francisco. Over the past 150 years, the splendid redwood forests blanketing these mountains have lured loggers and inspired environmentalists, who left their legacies along with fascinating stories that you can discover if you know where to go.
By Traci Hukill
How Santa Cruz County roared through the 1920’s prohibition, and where you can still find historic places today!
By Traci Hukill
How the first inhabitants of northern Monterey Bay lived, and how their descendants are keeping tradition alive.