SKYDIVE SANTA CRUZ
Skydive Santa Cruz delivers a classic California skydiving experience. Skydive near crystal-clear ocean waters, pristine beaches, towering redwoods, and rocky mountain peaks. Skydive Santa Cruz offers the best price on ocean view skydiving near San Francisco and San Jose. After all, adventures in paradise should be accessible to all.
It’s not hyperbole to say that skydiving is a portal to another world. During a skydive, you’re entering a four dimension world, warping time, seeing things in a new way, and unlocking feelings and sensations that you’ve never felt before. You'll experience euphoria, adrenaline, butterflies in the stomach, speed, weightlessness, freedom, and uninhibited happiness. Freefall and parachute flight are completely different experiences, both of which are uniquely magical and almost contradictory. There is a reason why everyone says, “you have to try it to truly experience it".
Your skydiving experience will have an authentic Santa Cruz vibe: an extreme outdoor adventure, a chill pace with a stoked and talented team offering a uniquely one-on-one, personalized first jump adventure. We want to show you everything about our amazing world, so we take a little bit longer during our skydive with you.
At Skydive Santa Cruz, we jump with only two students per flight, making the experience a little more private and VIP for you and your bestie or significant other. It includes a 20-minute aerial tour over the Santa Cruz beaches, Santa Cruz Boardwalk, Monterey Bay, and the central California coastline. Then we’ll exit the airplane from at least 10,000 feet, freefalling at 120 mph for up to 40 seconds before deploying the parachute.
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WAYS TO GET STARTED
Skydive Santa Cruz combines stunning ocean view skydives and mountain landscapes with thrilling a freefall experience.
GETTING HERE
Skydive Santa Cruz is located at the Watsonville Municipal Airport, just a few minutes outside of Santa Cruz, California.
For San Francisco skydivers, it's just a 90 minute drive, and only 45 minutes drive for San Jose skydivers.
Skydive Santa Cruz is nestled on the central coast of California, offering the perfect backdrop for an adrenaline-filled skydiving journey.
Jump with us for the best ocean views of any skydiving center in California.
Reasons Skydive Santa Cruz is the
Best Skydive Near San Francisco and San Jose
Personalized Skydive Experience
What we do extraordinarily well is provide a personalized one-on-one skydiving experience. Our process provides the opportunity to absorb every aspect of the skydiving process and soak up every moment. In a high intensity activity such as your first time skydiving that’s challenging enough on its own, let alone at a frantic pace.
A focused operation provides more personal encounters. You’ll get extended time with your skydiving instructor which provides an opportunity to learn more about the sport (yes, it most certainly is a sport). Our aircraft is designed for just you and your skydiving BFF or partner. We even slow roll our airplane flight with a scenic ride to altitude; an experience onto itself.
Santa Cruz Skydive Vibes and Views
Our skydiving center reflects the vibe of Santa Cruz. Relative to other skydive centers in California, we’ve got a slow roll, personal, easy going, fun vibe.
It's such a privledge to able to skydive in Santa Cruz. With our location being so close to the beach and the mountains, it feels like the ocean runs into the mountains with everything surrounded by towering redwoods.
If this all sounds like your jam, then you’ll definitely enjoy a skydive with us; and if not, it’s the best price on ocean view skydiving in California so come skydive in paradise!
Safety Record
Above all else, the most important aspect of any skydiving operation is safety. And while advances in skydiving equipment and training, and increased standards for maintenance and safety have made almost all skydive centers in California very safe, someone always leads the way.
From our perspective all that needs to be said is this: During our entire history, for more than 12 years, we’ve maintained a perfect safety record.
Amazing Scenic Flight to Altitude
You might hear a licensed skydiver or someone that doesn’t enjoy flying talk about how fast a skydive airplane gets to altitude. For them, faster is better. That’s because their objective is likely to do as many as jumps as possible in that day and/or to get out of the airplane as quickly as possible. But if this is your first jump, or one of your first, or you love flying, airplane flights are a lot of fun and provide a completely new way to see the world. In fact, there are several operations on our airfield selling scenic flights.
Essentially you get a free 20-minute scenic flight over Santa Cruz, Capitola, Aptos, and the surrounding beaches. We often fly over the Santa Cruz Boardwalk too. Our primary aircraft has a large, clear door that’s excellent for viewing. We’ll get some amazing video and pictures during the flight if you’ve purchased a video or pictures package.
Short Wait Times
With a focused and agile team, we have limited availability. We do not overbook (so we recommend you book as early as possible), and thus, we do not have long wait times.
Typically, your total activity time should be about 2-3 hours.
If something unexpected happens that could impact our standard activity duration time, we do our best to communicate as quickly and efficiently as possible. If unexpected weather or aviation operations look like it will impact our ability to jump, we will move bookings around and reschedule people so that no one is waiting longer than reasonably expected.
Best Possible Skydive Video/Photo
If you’re trying to figure out the best place to skydive in the Bay Area, one thing that you might want to factor into your consideration is the scenery of the skydive location.
One of the most remarkable aspects of skydiving in Santa Cruz is the stunning views you'll encounter during your freefall and parachute descent. As you plummet towards the ground at incredible speeds, you'll have a bird's-eye view of the picturesque coastline, the shimmering waters of the Monterey Bay, and the beautiful Santa Cruz Mountains.
Gorgeous scenery provides a backdrop for epic skydive video and pictures. If you’re likely to get skydive video and pictures (more than 90% of people do) to celebrate, share and remember your jump, skydiving in Santa Cruz provides the best backdrop for skydive video and pictures.
