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Santa Cruz County saw the biggest tourism spike in all of California since 2019, and while Aptos is not as famous as the Santa Cruz Boardwalk or Capitola Wharf, its reputation helps it stick out.

Nisene Marks boasts 30 miles in rugged semi-wilderness, rising from sea level to steep coastal mountains of more than 2,600 feet where visitors can walk, hike, run or bike.

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For local, design-savvy getaways, San Franciscans usually look north to Napa and Sonoma. But 90 minutes south of the city, Santa Cruz has been quietly redefining a style once dictated by a scruffy mix of surfers, students, and free-spirits. Today, the laid-back beach town exudes a creative new energ...

Whether it's the quality of the air on a hike in the redwoods, the high clouds and low angles giving the season's light a unique character or a different tone in the ocean's roar, getting out into our life-affirming Monterey Bay winter is a balm we're lucky to have.

Thousands of people have died in California due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These are some of their stories.

Tazo Shows How Reforestation Can Make a Difference in Cities, Too Mar 09, 2021 Photo: The Forest of Nisene Marks in Aptos, California, a former logging site that had been completely clear cut and has been the focus of reforestation efforts since the early 1960s. Reforestation has become the new best friend of companies seeking to burnish their sustainability profiles, but follow-on studies are beginning to demonstrate that an effective tree planting initiative is more complicated than it may se...