California redwoods

UC Berkeley’s campus has plenty of amazing activities to offer, but sometimes when we get caught up in student life, it’s helpful to get out into nature.

There’s a stretch of highway reaching through the Santa Cruz mountains down to the coast that I find myself returning to each summer like clockwork. California Highway 9 winds through redwood forests and hugs steep drops into the San Lorenzo Valley, spanning a number of miles leading through tiny towns and campsites into downtown Santa Cruz and the vast expanse of the Pacific.