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Get outside, take a lunchtime walk and have a picnic with a view at the Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park every Thursday this summer. Also called the Mission Adobe, the park offers awesome views of downtown Santa Cruz from a private-feeling vantage point atop a bluff overlooking Pacific Avenue. Order a delicious, inexpensive lunch from Taquitos Gabriel's (3 carnitas tacos for $6!), grab an agua fresca and choose the sunny patio or the shady lawn. Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks even supplies cute tablecloths so you can spiff up your table. Attitude adjustment guaranteed!
Access the Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park via the staircase next to the colorful mural on Mission Street between Center and Emmett.
Mission Adobe, 144 School St, Santa Cruz. 11am-1pm.
Hilltromper photo.
