Santa Cruz Island isn’t easy to get to but the hearty travelers who make it are rewarded with a distinctive landscape off the ...

Channel Islands National Park, (805) 658-5730, which includes Santa Cruz and four other islands, has its principal mainland visitor center at 1901 Spinnaker Drive in Ventura.

Plan your perfect Santa Cruz Island day trip with my complete guide. Get ferry info, hiking trails, and top activities in ...

Twenty miles off the coast of Ventura lies Santa Cruz Island — a remote mecca for adventure. We spent a weekend exploring it. Here’s how you can too. After having a two week and nearly 200 ...

But this time was different. On Santa Cruz Island, there are no boutique hotels or restaurants to visit. The 22-mile-long island is part of the Channel Islands National Park and is maintained as a ...

A pair of bald eagles stood, a wobbly, days-old chick between them, in a nest on Santa Cruz Island off Ventura this week. The small, downy raptor hatched on March 14 at Sauces Canyon on the island ...

The Santa Cruz Island Dudleya is an Endangered Species Act success story NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks rare plant biologist Heather Schneider about the Santa Cruz Island Dudleya, an Endangered Species ...

The Santa Cruz Island horses are different by design. The current breed descends from Iberian Peninsula horses that were first introduced to the island in the 1830s when the outpost was briefly ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Several victims of a boat fire that occurred near the Santa Cruz Islands in Southern California have been identified as Northern California residents.

Santa Cruz Island was once so ravaged by farmers that many native plants were almost extinct. Now, 30 years later, it is a success story others hope to learn from.

A Santa Cruz Island Fox roams the Scorpion Canyon area of Santa Cruz Island on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. Each of the Channel Islands has its own subspecies that are found nowhere else in the world.