Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park
SF Bay Area
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 1.9
- Established
- 1959
parks detail
- Hook
- The last surviving building of Mission Santa Cruz, an 1824 adobe that housed Ohlone and Yokuts families
- More
- The 1791 mission's surviving adobe housed Yokuts and Ohlone families, and the exhibits center their story rather than the friars' — a deliberate, unusual choice. Free admission, small garden, and the plaza's white chapel is a later replica worth the contrast.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 36.977, -122.029