Twin Lakes State Beach
SF Bay Area
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 95
- Established
- 1955
parks detail
- Hook
- Santa Cruz's warmest in-town sand beside the harbor mouth and Schwan Lake
- More
- Schwan Lake behind the beach is the surviving 'twin'; the other became the harbor in 1964. Warmest water in Santa Cruz, fire rings by permit tradition, and the harbor's Crow's Nest breakfast is the local pairing.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 36.962, -122.014