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 ...

At about 3:15 p.m. on Dec. 23, as a powerful winter swell raged on the California coast and left the Santa Cruz ... at the surf break twice and Padua training with big wave surfing icon Laird ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KGO) -- The last wave of customers rolled ... thanking downtown Santa Cruz for 25 years. Surfing legend Jack O'Neill opened his first surf shop in 1952 off San Francisco's ...

Santa Cruz surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir surfed a wave just two days before Christmas that could get him the best gift a surfer could ask for: a world record for surfing the world’s largest ...

Slebir’s ride was captured on video and is under review by the World Surf League and Guinness World Records. The world record currently stands at 86 feet. Mavericks, the legendary Northern California ...

A Santa Cruz man may ride into the history ... “Definitely in the 100 foot range and definitely the largest wave I have ever seen since I began Surfing Mavericks in 1975 it was an amazing ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. – High surf along the California coast trapped a man under debris at a Santa Cruz state park Monday morning, before causing part of the Santa Cruz Pier to collapse. The rough ...

While big wave surf spots like Mavericks are going off – stay tuned for more on that coming soon – damage and danger from the oversized swell are wreaking havoc elsewhere. In Santa Cruz ...

Along the way, you'll be treated to pristine vistas of the Pacific Ocean and you might even spot some surfers riding the waves at ... stop in to the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum along your stroll ...