Aptos is home to a number of recurring events:
Aptos Farmer’s Market at Cabrillo College
4th of July Parade – “the world’s shortest parade”.
Aptos Schools – Overview
Aptos Public Schools are some of the best in Santa Cruz county. All public schools in Aptos are part of the Pajaro Valley Unified School District.
Aptos Parks and Recreation Overview
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Welcome to the Aptos Parks and Recreation Overview page at AptosCommunityNews! Aptos is home to a large number of well-known and popular state and county parks. Among the most prominent are:
- New Brighton State Beach
- Seacliff Beach Park
- Rio del Mar Beach
- Beer Can Beach
- Seacliff Village Park
- Pot Belly Beach
- Forest of Nisene Marks State Park
- Aptos Village Park
- Polo Grounds Park
- Seascape Park
- Hidden Beach Park
- Willowbrook Park
- Aptos Jump Park and Pump Track
For those interested in Golf, checkout the Seascape Golf Course
Aptos Shopping Centers
Aptos is not generally compared to the world’s biggest shopping towns, like New York, London, or Tokyo – and with good reason! Aptos has a small-town vibe and most of the Aptos Shopping Centers identified on this page are casual, laid-back places where suit and tie are very much an exception, rather than a norm.
The largest shopping center in Aptos is the venerable Rancho del Mar Shopping Center, and it’s also one of the largest in all of Santa Cruz county. The Deer Park Shopping Center is a close second in size, with the Seascape Village shopping center close behind.
Here now is a very complete list of Aptos Shopping Centers. These centers represent the best of (if not the entirety of!) shopping in Aptos, and feature everything from supermarkets, fine dining, boutiques, clothiers, salons – virtually everything under the sun! Most of the Aptos shopping centers can be found right along Soquel Drive, between State Park Drive and Rio del Mar Boulevard. This “urban core” makes up the heart of modern-day Aptos, and all of these shopping centers are within a few minutes drive of each other.
Apots Shopping Centers
Rancho del Mar Shopping Center
Aptos Village Square Shopping Center
Seascape Village Shopping Center
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Aptos Restaurants Overview
Despite Aptos being a small town, it has a surprisingly high number of quality places to eat. This page is our Aptos Restaurants Overview, and will guide you to the best of Aptos restaurants. Aptos has just about all kinds of cuisine – French, Mexican, American Bistro, Asian, BBQ – if you can eat it, you can find it, in Aptos.
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Aptos Hotels Overview
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The #1 business of Aptos – like the rest of Santa Cruz county – is tourism. People come from all around the world to enjoy our beaches, mountains, forests, and, of course, our sublime climate. When all these folks come to town, they’ll need a place to stay, of course – and there’s a wide selection of hotels in Aptos to accommodate them.
The largest and best known hotel is the Seascape Resort, located right on the coastline in south Aptos. There are few resorts of this type anywhere to be found in California, and it is unlikely any more will be built in the future, thanks to restrictions on coastal development enforced by the California Coastal Commission.