Travel & Hotel

• Getting to Santa Cruz
  • San Jose International Airport is closest to UCSC (35 mi), but has fewer direct international flights than San Francisco International Airport (66 mi).
  • Surf City Shuttle offers service from SJC and SFO. See their website for pricing details and information on how to make a reservation.
  • The Santa Cruz Experience also offers airport shuttle service.
  • Directions to The Center for Adaptive Optics Building

• Maps of UCSC and Finding the Meeting
  • The meeting will be in the Interdisciplinary Sciences Building Room 102, which is connected to Natural Sciences 2.
  • From the motels on Mission Street it is both quicker and cheaper to use the bus than to drive and park. Here are two links showing the bus route. Note that the result of these queries changes from minute to minute based on which bus is next scheduled to run.
    • Route to "Science Hill" bus stop
    • Route to "Health Center/Colleges 9 & 10" bus stop (shorter walk to ISB from here)
  • Campus maps are linked from the
  • Detail map of location of the meeting
  • Campus parking lots (Nearest detailed views here and here.
  • Details on parking permits coming soon.