A sailboat passes by the damaged end of the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf on a recent Sunday. (Shmuel Thaler - Santa Cruz ...

As visitors flock to Santa Cruz for Memorial Day weekend, plans to rebuild the wharf are being made known. Even though a 180-foot section of the pier crashed into the ocean in December, many said ...

Visitors stand on the wharf at the Santa Cruz Wharf in Santa Cruz, Calif., on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group) ...

The truncated end of the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf is battered by waves this week as a series of atmospheric river storms rolled through Santa Cruz County. A massive swell on Dec. 23 broke off ...

Due to predicted high swell and severe weather, the city of Santa Cruz will close the Santa Cruz Wharf and multiple beaches Friday with a tentative plan to reopen coastal areas Saturday.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KGO) -- An atmospheric river moving in might be the last thing they want to see in Santa Cruz. It was just in December that a huge section of the wharf collapsed into the water ...

Sea lions haul out at the Santa Cruz Wharf, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025, in Santa Cruz, Calif. A large section of haul out space was lost to the marine mammals when winter storms collapsed the end of ...

City of Santa Cruz staff provided an overview and update regarding the fate of the Santa Cruz Wharf’s collapsed south end at the Tuesday Santa Cruz City Council meeting, stating that the deci… ...

150 feet of the structure drops into the Pacific as massive waves, measured at 15-20 feet nearby, pound the coast. Three people were on the wharf when it collapsed.

As they have for more than 100 years, thousands of visitors will head out to Santa Cruz’s beaches and famous wharf over Memorial Day Weekend, heralding the beginning of summer.

Santa Cruz City Manager Matt Huffaker began the presentation with a quick recap of the Dec. 23 incident, where a massive swell took about 150 feet of the wooden wharf south end into the Pacific Ocean.