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Roaring Camp Railroads

5401 Graham Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95018
831-335-4484
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Ranked #11 of 31 attractions in Santa Cruz
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Type: Scenic Railroads
Owner description: See California’s towering redwood trees from two historic railroads. Ride steam trains to Bear Mountain or Beach Trains to Santa Cruz. Visit an 1880s... more » Owner description: See California’s towering redwood trees from two historic railroads. Ride steam trains to Bear Mountain or Beach Trains to Santa Cruz. Visit an 1880s logging town located in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. Between San Francisco and Monterey Bay in Felton. « less
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed April 20, 2013

An incredible ride on an old steam engined train up Bear Mt through the redwoods! My partner and I felt as though we were kids again on the little engine that "could", as it made its way up the steep incline to the end of the line ith the "linemen" who actually gets off to switch the tracks back for... More

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Mountain View, California
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed April 18, 2013

Other than TripAdvisor listing the wrong phone number and being nothing but rude about fixing it, Roaring Camp Railroads is AWESOME!!!

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San jose
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed April 14, 2013

Great train ride up the steep mountain, you get a chance to get off the train and walk around for a few minutes. Great conductors and a beautiful ride thought the redwoods. Highly recommend this for families.

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New Delhi, India
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed April 5, 2013

The "Roaring Camp Railroads" is an Excellent place for a family outing. We had gone with our two grand children and had a great fun time. It was an experience to ride a steam-engine pulled railcars through the hills & forest of mighty & majestic Redwood trees. In addition to the rail-ride, our grand daughters had a good time "hunting"... More

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San Clemente, California
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed March 28, 2013

Enjoyed the train ride amongst the Redwoods. Very peaceful and tranquil. The lunch foods available in the area are rather awful though.

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Eaton, Ohio, United States
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed March 18, 2013

We enjoy train rides anyway, so we enjoyed this way to view the redwoods. We did the roaring train up to the top of bear mountain. The beach route is not open in March. It lasted 90 minutes and we enjoyed the scenerary and the information given out.

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4 of 5 stars Reviewed March 14, 2013

nice relaxing trip down to the beach at the end of a road trip. Not sure if is due to being british, but had a couple off issues....blasting the beach boys out over a terrible PA system on the train when approaching the beach did make me die a little on the inside. Second one is those damn redwood trees,... More

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San Francisco, California
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3 of 5 stars Reviewed February 12, 2013

We used Roaring Camp for a wedding. The setting was great and overall the facilities were good. There were a couple of concerns though that are mentioned here to help others. 1) We placed the dessert table in an area just outside the main dining hall. We were assured that the ceiling lighting would be replaced prior to the event... More

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Gilroy, California
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed January 27, 2013

It was beautiful, it was fun and great times even for little kids. Train conductor was friendly and informative. We did the Santa Cruz mountains next time we are talking it to Santa Cruz beach.

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Bangalore, India
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed January 7, 2013

I have been on roaring camper and I would like to come again it was exelent it was a nice trip and i Liked the trip on roaring camper.

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