Santa Cruz, CA Road Trips

Plan drives from Santa Cruz, CA with practical route pages for distance, drive time, fuel cost, road character, and places to stop along the way.

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Trip Routes

3

Longest Drive

369.6 mi

Anaheim, CA

Quickest Drive

1h 32m

San Francisco, CA

Plan Around Santa Cruz, CA

Popular Incoming Routes

Useful if Santa Cruz, CA is the arrival point and you want the strongest routes into the city first.

Continue From Santa Cruz, CA

Good next legs if this city is only one stop in a longer road trip.

Santa Cruz, CA to Anaheim, CA

Recent demographic snapshot from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey.

Population

60,953

Median Income

$111,427

Median Home Value

$1,180,100

Median Age

30.7

Source: US Census Bureau ACS 5-year (public domain). See our methodology for details.

Los Angeles, CA to Santa Cruz, CA

San Francisco, CA to Santa Cruz, CA

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Where to go from Santa Cruz, CA?

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