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Self Guided UC Santa Cruz Walking Tour: Unlock Secret Stories

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• East Field House, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA Please head to the entrance of UC Santa Cruz, and a short drive up to the East Field house. You can take the loop bus up, or drive to this parking lot.
• Oakes College, 231 Oakes Rd, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA The tour ends at Oakes College
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• You'll start at East Field House East Field House, 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA Please head to the entrance of UC Santa Cruz, and a short drive up to the East Field house. You can take the loop bus up, or drive to this parking lot. See address & details
• 1 University of California at Santa Cruz Stop: 30 minutes - Admission included See details
• 2 Cowell College Stop: 15 minutes - Admission included See details
• 3 Stevenson College Stop: 20 minutes - Admission included See details
• 4 Crown College Stop: 15 minutes - Admission included See details
• 5 Merrill College Stop: 15 minutes - Admission included See details
• 6 McHenry Library Stop: 15 minutes - Admission included See details
• 7 Science Hill (UCSC) Stop: 15 minutes - Admission included See details
• 8 Porter College Stop: 15 minutes - Admission included See details
• 9 Rachel Carson College Stop: 15 minutes - Admission included See details
• 10 Oakes College Stop: 15 minutes - Admission included See details
• You'll end at Oakes College 231 Oakes Rd, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA The tour ends at Oakes College See address & details

• travel L 0 contributions 4.0 of 5 bubbles Enjoyed the tour of 17 mile drive We were given the option to do the tour through the brochure or the app. The app is much better — you get step by step navigation and interesting commentary. Read more Written January 7, 2024
• 751erikai 0 contributions 1.0 of 5 bubbles INEXPERIENCED DRIVER AND CONFUSING APP RUINED THE DAY The tour was very disappointing, especially for the amount of money I paid for it. The driver was unfamiliar with the app given her by the assigned tour company, “Pintours.” She said that it was new, and she was not given any instructions on how to use it other than "download the app and follow the directions." At one point, we sat in front of a building that looked to be abandoned in a residential area with a dead-end cul-de-sac. My husband and I, as well as the driver, just kind of sat there looking out the window very confused. The whole point of me selecting the private driver tour is that I was promised the tour guide would be very knowledgeable about the area and be able to give details on things as well as take away the stress of us having to drive on our own. Not only was the driver not knowledgeable, but the app narrator was over the top and very confusing. At one point the driver was in a near accident with another vehicle and kept apologizing. The directions on the app were very confusing, so it didn't surprise me that she was confused as well. Overall, it was not the romantic, relaxing day with my husband I had eager anticipated. On the contrary, it was very stressful. I would have been much better off saving my $600 plus the tip we gave the driver and just driving around in circles on my own arguing about directions with my husband. Pintours/Trip Advisor should be embarrassed that you charge people $600 for something like this. It’s awful. Read more Written January 5, 2024
• Rchappening 0 contributions 4.0 of 5 bubbles A Day Get-a-way Quiet nice little place. We stayed at Monarch Inn Suite bed & breakfasts. Shared patio a little intrusive viewing into rooms & ceiling squeaked as people moved around in the night hours. Nice quiet grounds. Nice walk to beach front and Market place shoppes. Friendly community. The ShadowBrooks Resturant was awesome. Impeccable SERVICE Read more Written June 24, 2023

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We welcome your visit to UC Santa Cruz! Many places and programs on campus are open to the public to tour, attend, and enjoy. Make sure to include some of these iconic campus spots on your visit for the full UCSC experience.

Quarry Plaza and Amphitheater

Quarry Plaza is the heart of campus, a central hangout spot that includes the campus store, a café, the Student Union, student organizations, and more. Here you will often see fundraisers, protests, recruitments, and concerts.  Quarry Amphitheater is the largest outdoor amphitheater in the Santa Cruz area, hosting convocations, rallies, and performances. The storied venue is also one of the most uniquely designed. Carved from a former lime quarry, tucked within redwoods and amidst rocky outcroppings, the asymmetrical terrace design offers breathtaking views.

East Field and athletic facilities

The views go for days from UC Santa Cruz’s East Field , an expanse of green including baseball fields, an ultimate Frisbee course, sand volleyball courts, and more, all overlooking the Monterey Bay and ringed by a walking and running track—and, of course, contemplative benches.

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Campus and community members have access to theater, music, film, dance programs, and lectures throughout the academic year—all part of the the many transformational opportunities on campus. 

University Libraries

The McHenry and Science & Engineering libraries house the impressive collection of UCSC’s University Library . Most of the library’s resources may be used by the public.

Farm and Garden

The UCSC Farm and Alan Chadwick Garden are beloved nurturing grounds for both students and plants, providing training and research in organic horticulture and agriculture. Students, faculty, and researchers use both the Farm and Garden as research and teaching sites, and they are both open to the public.

Arboretum & Botanic Garden

The UCSC Arboretum is on a mission: to connect people with plants. This living museum is full of rare and unique plant species, and has long contributed to conservation research. There’s also a gift and garden shop, tours, and events.

Coastal Science Campus

The UC Santa Cruz Coastal Science Campus is at the edge of the Pacific Ocean, three miles from the main campus, and includes research and educational facilities that support coastal conservation, marine biology, ecology, habitat restoration, and environmental policy.

The Seymour Marine Discovery Center —where you can learn about marine life in Monterey Bay, touch a shark, and discover the science behind natural events—is open to the public. 

Art galleries

The Institute of the Arts and Sciences galleries are off-campus, state-of-the-art facilities showcasing the institute’s groundbreaking exhibitions and programs, highlighting the work of major national and international artists working to address the most pressing issues of our day at the intersection of the arts and social justice.

On campus, the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery and the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery include work by contemporary artists and important collections of historic interest. 

There are also several smaller galleries at various campus sites, libraries, and coffeehouses. 

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“From the trees to the seas”: UC Santa Cruz is famed worldwide for its r edwood forests, breathtaking vistas, and the kind of serenity that expands the mind. Take a tour—in person or virtually—and see for yourself. 

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The Residential Colleges

Find community and engage! Whether you live on campus or not, you will be affiliated with one of our 10 residential colleges, providing many opportunities for activities, advising, and leadership. The colleges are not associated with your major. So for example, you can major in computer engineering but be affiliated with Porter College, where the theme is arts-centered. Year-after-year, our alumni identify their residential college experience and student group involvement as central to their core identities and connection to campus. The people you will live with in these communities, the shared experiences, your growth academically and personally, are all fostered by the close-knit, home-away-from-home structure our residential colleges provide.

Campus Dining & Eateries

Our dining halls provide a place for community and shared experiences. There are five dining halls on our main campus, along with different cafe options at key locations. Regardless of where you find yourself during the day, you may choose to eat at any one of our dining halls. Not only do we have different rotating menus for each dining hall every month offering produce sourced from our campus and local organic farms, we provide complete nutritional breakdowns and a simple system to easily identify dietary restrictions.

Transfer Student Tour

UC Santa Cruz welcomes transfer applicants from California community colleges and other institutions. Transferring to UCSC is a great way to earn your University of California undergraduate degree. This tour will show you resources, support services, and facilities dedicated to our transfer students.

Resource Centers

UCSC Resource Centers offer counter-spaces for students who are queer, trans, nonbinary, womxn, and people of color, as well as impact institutional policies and campus climate. The Resource Centers engages the broader campus on issues and challenges facing our communities, and provide programs, physical spaces, and services to foster student’s academic, personal, and professional growth, through community-based leadership development.

This tour takes you through all stops on the General Walking Tour but is designed for larger groups visiting campus. The tour begins at Cowell Circle and ending at the Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall.

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FIRST SATURDAY Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your understanding of the Arboretum's plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending on the time of year, the interests of the tour guide and the people who join in. You might learn more about the birds and mammals that make this land their home or about the amazing physical adaptations that plants have evolved to better deal with extreme weather and climate conditions. 

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Tours given on the 1st Saturday of each month - at 11am Admission: $10/person Members: FREE Admission

Meet your tour guide(s) at the entrance to the Visitor Parking lot. Walks will be about one hour.

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The Arboretum offers many wonderful opportunities for exploration and learning for all ages, backgrounds, and capabilities.  We have beautiful, information-packed interpretive signs near the entrances to every garden, to help make your visit an educationally enriching experience.

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Bring a picnic lunch to the Arboretum! There are picnic benches in several parts of the gardens (see map below) and several open, grassy areas, where school groups can sit ​on the ground for lunch or for ​instruction. 

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From:   Blia Yang, Director of Undergraduate Admissions

March 11, 2022

As we all have in the midst of the pandemic, the Tours & Events program in Undergraduate Admissions has had to become creative in meeting the demand from students and families wanting to learn more about our campus. We have responded with a variety of online, YouTube-based, and self-guided options over the last two years.

Recently, we have been carefully resuming our in-person tours, as you may have seen around the campus. The tours are outdoors and serve a limited number of people per group. 

As we enter our Spring Yield phase with a record number of applicants once again, we are prioritizing admitted students and their families for in-person tours. Shortly after receiving their admission notification, students will also receive a link that will allow them to sign up for tours. After yield season ends, we expect to gradually increase our in-person tour options and open them to the general public, health conditions permitting.

In addition to the in-person tours, we will host a range of virtual activities for our admitted students and families, including Banana Slug Day on April 16, an all-online experience that will offer many opportunities for students to connect with our faculty and staff.

Thank you for your flexibility and grace as we navigate the process of reopening tours and offering the best possible experience for our admitted students and families, while continuing to stay safe.

If you are in the area, feel free to stop by and visit Undergraduate Admissions Tours & Events at our new home in Hahn Student Services!

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Embark on an unforgettable journey through the enchanting redwood forests and scenic landscapes of UC Santa Cruz with our exclusive Private Walking Tour! Immerse yourself in the rich history and fascinating culture of this iconic university as our expert guide leads you on an adventure like no other. Walk in the shadows of towering redwoods, explore peaceful meadows, and breathe in the crisp, invigorating mountain air. Discover hidden spots and secret viewpoints that only locals know, Whether you're a prospective student, an alumni longing for a nostalgic trip down memory lane, or simply a spirited explorer, this tour will leave you awe-inspired and with a deeper connection to the delightful spirit of UC Santa Cruz! This tour is completely tailored to you with the App! With our app, you can pause the tour, and check out the locations as long as you want! You can skip a stop you don't like, and you have all the best information about each stop at your fingertips.

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Walking - The Green Way To Get Around Campus

Walking is often the most direct and quickest way to travel around campus. Once you learn your way around on foot, you'll avoid arriving late to class because you waited for a shuttle. You will also discover the unique features that make UCSC a special place, many of which can't be seen from the roadways.

It's Easy Being Green

Getting around by foot dramatically reduces our carbon footprint. Less reliance on motor vehicles helps reduce green-house gas emissions while conserving fossil fuels. You don't have to walk every trip; even a few walking trips will reduce your carbon footprint, save transit fee dollars by reducing impacts on the campus shuttles, and provide you with some great exercise.

Traffic Control

Be on the lookout for the campus traffic controllers: this program is helps shuttles and buses move around campus faster. Teams of students wearing bright yellow gloves facilitate turn-taking at key campus intersections during class breaks. Vehicles move more efficiently, cars spend less time idling in traffic, and pedestrians are provided a safe passage through crowded areas. If the Traffic Control program isn't operating at an intersection you need to cross, take a moment and look at the traffic situation. If you can help ease the traffic backup by letting a car go through, please do. Keeping buses and shuttles moving through campus helps everyone.

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Ucsc radical history walking tour.

Join us for a UCSC Radical History walking tour led by Will Parrish (PhD candidate in History of Consciousness) and Janina A. Larenas (Little Giant Collective). Histories of Indigenous people, strikes, communes, feminists, anti-imperialists, land defenders, and the land itself come to life through stories and songs. Tour begins at Bay Tree Plaza and concludes at the Sesnon Gallery to view Remove by X: UC Santa Cruz Protests in Print. 1 mile walking tour.

Additional transportation offered for folks with limited mobility. Please reserve accommodations via email by contacting [email protected] .

SNU In the World Program 2024 Rapporteur Report

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January 23, 2024  – February 03, 2024

The Science & Justice Research Center (SJRC) hosted its second year of the SNU in the World Program , with 29 visiting scholars (including Professor Doogab Yi , 2 graduate students, and 26 undergraduates) from Seoul National University (SNU). During their two-week stay, scholars engaged with various projects conducted at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) by SJRC affiliates . The SNU in the World Program , administered by the Office of International Affairs (OIA) at SNU, is a university-led and government-funded initiative to train South Korean undergraduate students to be globally engaged scholars and leaders. The SNU in the World Program at UCSC is one of five other programs selected for funding and focuses on Innovation, Science and Justice . Other SNU Programs included visits to Washington DC (public policy), Japan (sustainable development), and Australia (climate crisis).

The program was once again facilitated by Doogab Yi, Associate Professor of Science Studies at Seoul National University, who brought together a diverse group of students from fields including the biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, engineering, industrial design, pharmacy, dentistry, sociology, anthropology, business administration, and fine arts. Over the two-week program students participated in an in-depth series of lectures, workshops, a film screening and live performance, and field trips to the surrounding Bay Area museums, cultural centers, and sites of innovation such as Google and an AI enabled lab at Stanford University Hospital. Activities focused on exploring cutting-edge issues including stem cell innovation in organoid intelligence , data and information justice, engineering and AI ethics, health equity, land and site-based practices, and ecological reparations.

Crown College Provost Manel Camps provided the students with an introduction to initiatives in innovation at UC Santa Cruz.  These included the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development (CIED), which promotes the development, research, and teaching of innovation and entrepreneurship at UC Santa Cruz, the Innovation and Business Engagement Hub , and with the Student Creativity Empowerment and Entrepreneurship association (SCEE). SJRC co-directors Jenny Reardon and James Doucet-Battle then took the lead framing the key learning outcomes of the visit centering on pressing topics of bioethics, health disparities, and equitable research. Previous and current projects affiliated with SJRC such as the the Leadership in Ethical & Equitable Design (LEED) of STEM Research Project and the University of California – Historically Black Colleges and Universities (UC-HBCU) Initiative provided insights into the Center’s efforts to center issues of equity and justice in science and engineering. 

This year’s SNU in the World program provided an opportunity to bring together a diverse community of researchers, scholars, artists, and policy makers who work in the domain of Science and Justice at UCSC and in the broader Bay Area. On their first day, they had a chance to be in conversation with Tiffany Wise-West, the Sustainability and Climate Action Manager for The City of Santa Cruz and a founding graduate fellow of the Science & Justice Training Program . In this conversation they learned about innovative relationships, environmental justice and the city.

Over dinner that first evening, they met with undergraduate student fellows in the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change . The Everett Program develops young leaders who use the technical, educational, and research resources of the university to work directly with communities, empowering people to develop practical solutions to persistent problems.

Over the following days, students had a chance to engage with a variety of areas and topics. In a session with the UCSC IBSC Stem Cell Journal Club, the visitors engaged in rich conversation surrounding bioethical questions raised by the innovative biotechnological research in organoid intelligence. UCSC Professor of History Ben Breene a nd Roya Pakzad, Founder and Director of Taraaz, a non-profit organization working at the intersection of technology and human rights, raised the question of ethical dilemmas in engineering from a global historical perspective, while two faculty members in the History of Consciousness department, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Dimitris Papadopoulos, approached the question of ecological justice from the framework of community technoscience. Leilani Gilpin and Carolina Flores, Assistant Professors in Computer Science and Engineering and Philosophy respectively, presented their collaborative work on the topic of justice in data science. Chessa Adsit-Morris and James Karabin, graduate researchers in SJRC’s Leadership in the Ethical and Equitable Design (LEED) Initiative , also focused on addressing issues of equity at intellectual and institutional levels in science and engineering.

This year, a series of performances, exhibitions, and film screenings complemented core themes of the lectures . A live performance of Strata: A Performance of Topography , an improvisational documentary meditating on land-based histories, shared thematic resonances with Connie Zheng and Kevin Corcoran’s lecture on land and site-based artistic research practices. Another highlight of the artistic contributions of the program was a screening of Richland , the 2023 documentary film by filmmaker Irene Lusztig centering on the residents and nuclear site workers of Hanford, a manufacturing company of weapons-grade plutonium for the Manhattan Project in the town Richland, Washington. The collective viewing of the film was effective in bringing about cross-cultural exchange of significant social, political, and national differences about world historical events such as the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The visitors’ responses to the film showed how the technology of nuclear bombs signifying American imperialism could also be framed as an anti-colonial technology in Korea. Both perspectives raise difficult questions about the role of normalized ideologies in justifying immense violence. 

Outside of UCSC, the group participated in several field trips throughout the local Bay Area. They were welcomed to the UC San Francisco Mission Bay Campus by Julie Harris-Wai, an Associate Professor at UCSF’s Institute for Health and Aging in the School of Nursing. Visitors embarked on a walking tour of Third Street led by Reardon and researcher Dennis Browe as part of SJRC’s Just Biomedicine project. Just Biomedicine is a research collective that critically examines the meeting of biomedicine, biotechnology, and big data along the Third Street corridor in the Mission-Bay neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The walking tour was designed to allow participants to think critically about who and what research infrastructures (such as buildings) are for when confronted by accessibility, surveillance, and social stratification issues in the urban landscape. Visitors also had ample free time to explore the city by attending de Young Museum, SF MOMA, and biking the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito before visiting Paul Tang’s AI enabled Lab at Stanford Hospital and touring UC Berkeley. 

After traveling back to Santa Cruz, SNU students worked in groups to synthesize their lessons throughout the two-week program into conference-style presentations. During the project development phase, groups discussed and debated a number of issues. At the end of the two-week program, teams presented their final research projects covering topics including: the role of artificial intelligence in mental health sciences; access to medical care and the power of walking ethnographies. All of these projects attempted to apply and analyze practical approaches to addressing issues of equity and justice in the realms of science and technology.

To take part in or contribute to this partnership for the next visit in late January 2025, please contact Jenny Reardon ( [email protected] ) and Colleen Stone ( [email protected] ).

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Proceed directly onto campus and request drop-off at Quarry Plaza.

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Those arriving by Metro bus or campus shuttle should use the Cowell College (uphill) or bookstore (downhill) bus stops.

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UC Santa Cruz has two types of parking spaces for those who have disability-related parking needs: standard and van-accessible disabled (or ADA) parking spaces, which are outlined in blue stripes and have a loading zone next to them, and Medical spaces. Medical spaces are standard-sized parking spaces and are intended for those who need close-in parking due to a temporary medical condition, but who don’t require the extra space provided by ADA parking spaces.

Tour guests needing mobility accommodations as outlined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) should email [email protected] or call 831-459-4118 at least five business days in advance of their scheduled tour.

Note: Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces, Medical spaces, or mobile pay spaces without additional payment, or in time zones (e.g., 10-, 15-, or 20-minute spaces) for longer than the posted time. DMV placards are not valid in spaces reserved for departments, individuals, contractors, carpools or vanpools, or in lots solely designated for “C” permit holders.