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Historic Sand Rock Farm Bed & Breakfast is a gracious, turn-of-the-century Arts and Crafts inspired home, filled with stained glass, art and antiques. Our ten acre grounds in the Aptos foothills include country gardens, expansive decks, walking trails, and the atmospheric Liliencrantz winery ruin, the only standing remainder of a significant part of 19th century Santa Cruz history. |
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Sand Rock Farm is located in a rural valley and mountain setting along Freedom Boulevard, formerly the stagecoach route between Watsonville and Valencia, a historic redwood mill town. Our Bed and Breakfast is just one mile from the longest walking beach along a hundred miles of California coast. Only half a mile from Aptos Village, in our forests and fields you feel far away indeed!
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A short drive from the popular attractions of Santa Cruz, Monterey, Aptos, and Carmel, Sand Rock Farm is your home base for trips to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Gilroy Garlic Festival, golf courses galore including the famous Pebble Beach Golf Course, Point Lobos, the quaint town of Carmel, with the world class wineries of the mountain and coastal valley region, farmers markets, the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the University of California at Santa Cruz, butterflies at Natural Bridges, the sea lions of Aņo Nuevo, whale watching, and all the sand, surf, and beach activities for which California is known.
Beaches abound within minutes of Sand Rock Farm for world class surfing and sunning -- the inn is two miles from Sunset Beach, one of the glorious icons of the California State Beaches and Parks. Hike in Nisene Marks State Park, 10,000 acres of beautiful forests; redwoods, oaks and chaparral. As you are driving, taking in the scenic destinations like Seventeen Mile Drive, and explore the lush hills and hideaways. Tide pooling, and other natural adventures beckon.
Kris will be happy to introduce you to the eclectic and delightful restaurants that abound in Santa Cruz and Monterey. She will gladly share her trade secrets as a professional chef from selecting the freshest produce to refining a seasoned palate.
 Dining Room Set for Gourmet Breakfast |
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Perhaps celebrate your special day in the Winery Meadow, with the romantic arched doorway into the Barrel Aging Room, the heart Redwood Pavilion, or the old winery workshop, with stone walls and broad stairs, all adjoining 5000 square feet of level field ringed with soaring trees and birdsong. |
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The farmhouse is surrounded by gardens, woodland, and fountains -- lounge on the rose garden hammock, or dine beneath the heritage oak on an expansive redwood deck.
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Built as one of the first wineries in the region, Sand Rock Farm first
opened in 1890. The home has been lovingly restored with vintage lighting,
hand printed wallpaper, and period arts and antiques. A perfect home-base for a California coast adventure, minutes from the beach between Santa Cruz and Monterey, Historic Sand Rock Farm is a idyllic retreat. A stay at Sand Rock Farm includes all the amenities of home and more: a delicious, seasonal breakfast catered to our guest's palate; a wine and cheese social hour that can be prearranged to include additional guests by invitation; soothing soaking tubs, whether indoor Jacuzzi tubs for two, or our patio hot tub by the rock garden which comfortably soaks up to six. |
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The public areas offer rich redwood details, period light fixtures, fireplaces, over-stuffed chairs, a reading porch, and our beautiful multi-level redwood deck overlooking the shade garden, where heirloom oak and redwood trees become living sculpture amid the play of fountains. There are lovely reception areas for guests, including the box-beam ceiling living room and a relaxing sitting porch filled with books and magazines.
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The B&B has five spacious rooms, each with private bathrooms; three rooms
have Jacuzzi tubs in the rooms, and two of the suites access a large
outdoor hot tub. Our five beautifully appointed guest rooms, each with different features and warm, vintage ambiance are also equipped with phone/modem capability, and cable television by request. |
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"I have traveled in so many countries, nowhere else have I been able to learn of any such combination of beautiful scenery and perfect climate, good fertile soil and every beauty of nature as with us. Nowhere else such a community of well-to-do, intelligent free people and where every one may be able to sit under his own vine and fig tree."
- Dr. August Liliencrantz' letter to AP Stanton
September 15, 1892, from Paris, France
Historic Sand Rock Farm Bed & Breakfast is a member of the following associations:
California Association of Bed & Breakfast Inns
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Historic Sand Rock Farm Bed & Breakfast 6901 Freedom Road Aptos, California 95003 Fax: (831) 688-8025 email: 
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