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Cascade Creek (220660) – flows from Santa Cruz County. Green Oaks Creek (224554) – flows from Santa Cruz County. Año Nuevo Creek (254567) – flows from Santa Cruz County. Cold Dip Creek (252424) – flows from Santa Cruz County. Finney Creek (223512) – flows from Santa Cruz County. Elliot Creek (223153) – flows from Santa Cruz County.
Stevens Creek is a 20.9-mile-long (33.6 km) [4] stream in Santa Clara County, California.The creek originates in the Santa Cruz Mountains on the western flank of Black Mountain in the Monte Bello Open Space Preserve near the terminus of Page Mill Road at Skyline Boulevard.
Pescadero Creek runs southerly through the southern Santa Cruz Mountains about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) southwest of Gilroy, California. At about two-thirds of its course it is joined by Castro Valley Road, which passes with the stream through Hatfield Canyon, [5] then crosses into Santa Cruz County and receives from the right Star Creek, [6] which drains the eastern flank of 1,618 feet (493 m) tall ...
The Guadalupe River then continues onward into San Francisco Bay. The creek begins in the Santa Cruz mountains near the Santa Clara/Santa Cruz County border, just south of the peak Loma Prieta. It then flows northwesterly to Lake Elsman, a reservoir owned by the San Jose Water Company, [4] then on to Holy City and Chemeketa Park, then northward ...
The Save San Francisco Bay Association was started by citizens outraged by the dramatic loss of the bay through dikes and landfills as well as pollution. By the 1960s, filling had reduced the bay from 680 square miles (1,800 km 2 ) to just 400 square miles (1,000 km 2 ) of highly contaminated water.
Big Basin Redwoods State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of California, located in Santa Cruz County, about 36 km (22 mi) northwest of Santa Cruz.The park contains almost all of the Waddell Creek watershed, which was formed by the seismic uplift of its rim, and the erosion of its center by the many streams in its bowl-shaped depression.
Damage to the Santa Cruz Wharf is seen in Santa Cruz, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Nic Coury) Damage is seen on the end of Santa Cruz Wharf during high surf in Santa Cruz, Calif ...
The largest rivers are the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, which drain into the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and thence to Suisun Bay. Other major rivers of the North Bay are the Napa River, the Petaluma River, the Gualala River, and the Russian River; the former two drain into San Pablo Bay, the latter two into the Pacific Ocean.