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San Jose Ave & Esplanade, Capitola, 95010
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Beach at Capitola Village, the second most popular beach in Santa Cruz for tourists. There are several restaurants along the esplanade. With the restaurants, restrooms, showers, and white sandy beach, Capitola Beach is fun alternative to Cowell Beach / Main Beach.
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• Facilities: ADA Accessible
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• Facilities: Bathrooms
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• Facilities: Concession Stand
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• Facilities: Lifeguard
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• Facilities: Picnic Tables
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• Facilities: Showers
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• Type: Kid Friendly
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• Parking: Poor / Few
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• Good For: SUP
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• Good For: Swimming
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Capitola is a popular tourist town because of its trendy shops and restaurants on the shore directly connecting to a fishing wharf and its large, sandy beach.
The original settlement now known as Capitola grew out of what was then called Soquel Landing. Soquel Landing got its name from a wharf located at the mouth of Soquel Creek.
This wharf, which dates back to the 1850s, served as an outlet for the produce and lumber grown in the interior. In 1865, Captain John Pope Davenport, a whaleman at Monterey, moved his operations to be near the wharf. Unable to capture any whales, he moved his operations the following year to Point Año Nuevo.
In 1869, Frederick A. Hihn, who owned the property in the vicinity of the wharf, decided to develop it as a seaside resort.
The historic Capitola Venetian Hotel that sits on the beach just east of the Pier has been designated on the Register of National Historic Places as "The first Condominium Beach Community in the United States, built in 1924".
Source: Wikipedia
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