Boulder Creek, California
Boulder Creek is a small rural mountain community in the coastal Santa Cruz Mountains. It is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Cruz County, California, with a population of 5,429 as of the 2020 census. Throughout its history, Boulder Creek has been home to a logging town and a resort community, as well as a counter-culture haven. Today, it is identified as the gateway to Big Basin Redwoods State Park.
Looking north from Highway 9 at the Boulder Creek Hardware building and the 70-foot long painted mural by John Ton, depicting two phases of the community's history.
Central Avenue circa 1930s, before being designated Highway 9.
The Grace Episcopal Church, a late Gothic Revival, is the oldest church building in Boulder Creek.
Santa Cruz County, California
Santa Cruz County, officially the County of Santa Cruz, is a county on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 270,861. The county seat is Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz County comprises the Santa Cruz–Watsonville, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area. The county is on the California Central Coast, south of the San Francisco Bay Area region. The county forms the northern coast of the Monterey Bay, with Monterey County forming the southern coast.
Image: Santa Cruz, California Boardwalk
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Image: Downtown Watsonville