![]() ![]() Although gambling was never legal, it was generally known that guests could take boats from the "pleasure pier" to a ship in the harbor to play games of chance in the early days. Food, drink, and theater were profitable aspects of the resort since the original Casino of Swanton in 1904. The Boardwalk's Cocoanut Grove conference center includes banquet rooms and a performing arts venue. The park then re-opened select rides to California residents on April 1, 2021. The park then subsequently shut down on November 10, 2020, due to Santa Cruz County re-entering the Substantial tier of the California Blueprint for a Safer Economy. ĭue to the COVID-19 pandemic, the park shut down in mid-March 2020. Season or day passes can be purchased or tickets for $1 each ride costs between 3 and 7 tickets. Although there is no admission and the beach is public, parking is charged a fee when the rides are open. It has won the Best Seaside Amusement Park Award from Amusement Today every year since 2007 except for 2015. Īs of 2011, the park is headed by Charles Canfield, the son of Laurence Canfield, the president of the park from the 1950s until the early 1980s. The Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway stops in front of the park. A short passenger service to Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park was restored in 1985. From 1927 to 1959, Southern Pacific Railroad ran Suntan Special excursion trains to the beach from San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose every summer Sunday and holiday. The beach was a destination for railroads and trolleys from 1875. On 14 June 1904, the Neptune Casino opened with an arcade, grill and dining room, and a theater. Swanton formed the Santa Cruz Beach, Cottage, and Tent City Corporation in 1903 and the following year, the City of Santa Cruz granted permission for commercial buildings to be built. The waterfront amusement park also features a log flume, Tilt-A-Whirl, wave swing, bumper cars, teacups, drop tower and a classic Rock-O-Plane Ferris wheel.īoardwalk shops and restaurants are already open in a limited capacity.Santa Cruz Swimming Baths at the Boardwalk, Pacific Novelty Company Postcards, circa 1910.įred W. The Beach Boardwalk’s four dark rides are also expected to remain closed. Carousel riders on the outside carousel horses can grab rings from a dispenser while they spin and try to toss them into a clown’s mouth. The Beach Boardwalk’s 1911 Looff Carousel with its distinctive ring dispenser is expected to remain closed along with other indoor rides. The Beach Boardwalk is also home to the Sea Serpent kiddie coaster. The Giant Dipper is typically closed for maintenance at this time of year. Lipton expects at least one coaster to be operational when the park reopens. The contenders: The 1924 Giant Dipper wooden coaster and the 2013 Undertow spinning steel coaster. ![]() Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk will become home to the first operating roller coaster in the state after more than seven months of amusement park closures. “It’s impossible to say which rides will be open,” Lipton said. The Small World Park and Pixieland amusement parks in Contra Costa County could also reopen. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk isn’t the only California amusement park permitted to reopen right now under the state’s guidelines. Smaller theme parks can reopen open at 25% capacity or 500 in-county visitors, whichever is fewer, with admission by reservation only in the orange/moderate tier 3. Small theme parks with a capacity of less than 15,000 visitors can reopen in the orange/moderate tier 3 while large theme parks can return in the yellow/minimal tier 4 - which could leave major players like Disney and Universal unable to return until early 2021 or next summer. It likely will be in a couple of weeks.”Ĭalifornia issued separate reopening guidelines for small and large theme parks last week. “We are making plans, but nothing is set in stone yet,” Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Marq Lipton said. Gavin Newsom’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy. The 1907 Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk plans to reopen in November after Santa Cruz County moved into the orange/moderate tier 3 risk level under Gov. California’s oldest amusement park is preparing to become the first amusement park to reopen under the state’s new COVID-19 health and safety guidelines following a seven-month coronavirus closure. ![]()
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