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Transportation & Parking Services
UC Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077
Email: taps@ucsc.edu
Phone: (831) 459-2190

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How To Get To Sacramento, Davis and Auburn

Greyhound - Buses depart four times per day from the Santa Cruz Greyhound station located at 425 Front St. (next to Santa Cruz Metro's Pacific station) going to Sacramento; a transfer is required in Oakland. Schedule is subject to change; contact the service provider for current schedule.
Santa Cruz Station Phone: 831-423-1800
Station Hours: Monday-Sunday: 6:00 am-6:30 am, 8:30 am-12:30 pm, 2:30 pm-7:15 pm,
9:30 pm-10:00 pm

Combine Bus & Train Travel - Take the Highway 17 Express bus from Santa Cruz Metro's Pacific station in downtown Santa Cruz to the San Jose Diridon train station. At the San Jose Amtrak station take the Capitol Corridor train to get to Fremont, Hayward, Oakland, Emeryville, Berkeley, Richmond, Martinez, Suisun, Davis, Sacramento, Roseville, Rocklin and Auburn, CA. The Coast Starlight train also stops in Davis and Sacramento.

Zipcar - a membership-based car rental program providing self-service access to vehicles on the UC Santa Cruz campus, 24/7. Daily rental rates are available.

Enterprise Rent-a-Car rents to students 18 years and older and offers daily and partial day rates. 18-20 years old , reference account #UCSC18; over 21 reference account #UCSC21.
PIN #UCS. Call 831-426-7799.