DeLaveaga Golf Course & Lodge

No one who travels the highways and byways of the Santa Cruz coast soon forgets the magnificent ocean vistas and vast carpets of redwood and pine trees. If you're lucky enough to spend part of your day on the fairways of DeLaveaga, you'll just enhance the memory of this extraordinary slice of the world. Several of the 18 holes provide views of the Pacific which churns just over three miles away. Carved into the canyons of an 800-acre park that was gifted to the City of Santa Cruz in the early 1900's, DeLaveaga was built in 1970 as a par-70 shotmaker's paradise. Architect Bert Stamps created narrow landing areas and small, challenging greens to test players of any level. You'll need to be on top of your irons and your mental game here. It helps that there are no homes or streets slicing through the course to distract you... just modestly priced public golf in a setting of stirring, immodest beauty.