San Lorenzo River

The San Lorenzo River drains the largest watershed in Santa Cruz County (the San Lorenzo Valley), and bisects the City of Santa Cruz before emptying into Monterey Bay. For most of its length, the river is paralleled by Highway 9.

• Carey Casey, "Down By the Riverside: How Santa Cruz Lost and Re-found Its Connection to the San Lorenzo River", Santa Cruz County History Journal Number 9, p20.

Tributaries(north to south)

• Kings Creek
• Bear Creek
• Boulder Creek
• Love Creek
• Newell Creek
• Zayante Creek
• Fall Creek
• Bennett Creek
• Bull Creek
• Branciforte Creek

Notable bridges (north to south -see also Category:Bridges)

• California Powder Works covered bridge (1872)
• Soquel Avenue covered bridge (1874)
• SCR San Lorenzo River trestle (1876, 1908)

Unincorporated communities located on the San Lorenzo River (south to north)

• Paradise Park
• Felton
• Ben Lomond
• Brookdale
• Boulder Creek

In Popular Culture

In the 1902 Jack London novel The Cruise of the Dazzler, the protagonist sails his sloop from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, where he docks at a small wharf on the lower San Lorenzo River.