Category:Mission Hill neighborhood

Mission Hill is a City of Santa Cruz neighborhood, surrounding Mission Plaza on the marine terrace above the San Lorenzo river floodplain. Geographically, Mission Hill is not a hill at all but a peninsula of the terrace that extends to the east toward a bend in the river. That peninsula is bordered on the west by Chestnut Street (the extension that intersects Mission Street) and the part of Highway 1 that separates from Mission Street at that same intersection. Both of those roads were built in the 1950s-60s. Chapter Four in The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture is titled "Mission Hill" but includes parts of the Westside neighborhood.