2005 Festival of Fruit Tour Info

Tour Descriptions

For descriptions of the tours, click here.

Maps and Driving Directions

For an overall look at the area covered by the Festival, see the Map page.

For a map and directions to Prusch Park, Thursday tour site and car pool staging area, see the Prusch Park Map page.

For maps and directions to the UCSC Inn & Conference Center and to the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, see the Conference Center/Fairgrounds page.

Tour maps and directions will be mailed with your registration confirmation. In addition, you should bring a standard road map for each area you plan to visit.

Last-Minute Directions

If for some reason you do not receive your tour directions, they may be picked up at:

For Tuesday Wolfskill tour: Idell Weydemeyer home tour on Monday afternoon & evening (510-223-6291 or iwgarden@sbcglobal.net for directions); or call Ray Sheehy at 530-666-7182 from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
For Wednesday tours around Santa Clara Valley: Wednesday morning at Prusch Park 8:00-9:15 a.m.
For Wednesday tours at the UC Santa Cruz Campus: call Chuck Rust on Tuesday evening at 831-728-6515.
For Thursday tours in the Watsonville area: Wednesday evening at the picnic at Prusch Park (6:00-7:00 p.m.) or Idell's room at the UCSC Inn & Conference Center, 8:00-9:30 p.m.
For Friday morning tours in the Santa Cruz area: in the parking lot of the UCSC Inn & Conference Center, by the car pool signs for each tour: 8:00-8:30 a.m. & again at 9:30-10:00 a.m.

Carpools
Car pools for Wednesday will start from Prusch Park (647 S. King Road, San Jose), for Thursday from the Santa Cruz County Fairground at 2601 E. Lake Avenue, Watsonville (19 miles or 25 minutes southeast of UCSC Inn & Conference Center), and Friday from the UCSC Inn & Conference Center at 611 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz. If you are late, your tour space will be given to the next one on the "wait" list.

Driving Logistics

For the Wolfskill tour on Tuesday, it is recommended that you travel to Davis or Pinole (halfway) on Monday by mid afternoon because of the heavy traffic in the Bay Area.

For the Wednesday tours in Santa Clara, it is recommended that you stay in the San Jose area Tuesday evening due to heavy traffic.

Page last revised June 23, 2005