Discover the most magical spots to pitch your tent or park your rig on your next Seacliff adventure.
Yeah, the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is just up the coast, but you may not want to leave this sandy haven home to a WWI-era tanker.
Just outside of Santa Cruz on California's Central Coast, Seacliff State Beach is a popular spot for swimming, fishing, and generally hanging out. The star attraction is the SS Palo Alto, an old tanker that was built toward the end of WWI and never made it to service. It was instead grounded at Seacliff and repurposed as a tourist attraction, and while the ship is no longer safe for visitors to enter, it can be admired from the pier. There’s no tent camping at Seacliff, but the park's RV-only campground features 26 full-hookup and 37 non-hookup sites with direct views out over the ocean.
Seacliff State Beach is at its busiest and warmest during the dry, warm summer months, though campers are likely to get pleasantly warm weather without much rainfall well into October. Winters can be a bit wet, with an average of eight days of rainfall from December through March. While the weather this time of year is generally cool, temperatures rarely drop below the low 40s, even at night.