A new museum exhibit in Santa Cruz looks back at an event 140 years ago when three Hawaiian princes introduced surfing to ...

But how exactly did Santa Cruz become the surfing mecca that it is today? How has it evolved over time? That story is told in ...

Members of the local surf community and lovers of Santa Cruz history gathered at the mouth of San Lorenzo River on Main Beach ...

The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum overlooks one of the most renowned surfing spots in Santa Cruz – Steamer Lane. Along with historic surfing photographs and boards, the museum features a bevy of ...

SANTA CRUZ – The City of Santa Cruz announced that the city’s iconic surfing museum located in the Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse on West Cliff Drive is once again open to the public. The ...

The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum doesn't look like your typical museum, because it's a working lighthouse. But this tiny space, situated on a cliff overlooking the famous Steamer Lane beach, holds the ...

SANTA CRUZ — When Ted Nicholson hitchhiked from his San Bruno naval post to Santa Cruz in 1944, he wasn’t sure what to expect. In addition to great surf, what the Southern California native ...

The surfing museum means a lot to us, and to me personally having grown up in Santa Cruz. And this is my favorite spot," said Clair Callahan (McPherson), whose family donated two boards and a wet ...

Even if you can’t surf, you can catch a wave at the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum, 701 West Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz, 467 miles north of San Diego. The museum overlooks famed surfing hotspot Steamer ...

Surfing has held a mystical allure in Santa Cruz for well more than a century. But there was a time when the practice didn’t exist there — or anywhere in North America. Until, suddenly, it did.

Now, the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum filled with historical photos and memorabilia has turned 25 just a few years after nearly closing. On hand were some of […] Skip to content.