Use the Bear Creek Road exit off Highway 17
Detour to Lupin Lodge due to winter storm road damage on Aldercroft Heights Road. Please see the map and directions below for detailed instructions
Driving HIGHWAY 17 Southbound
Please use the Bear Creek Road exit off Highway 17 for safety when visiting Lupin!
- From: Los Gatos, San José, San Francisco and greater Bay Area.
- Take the Bear Creek Road exit from Hwy 17 (a sharp right turn off the freeway).
- At the top of the exit, turn right to drive over the freeway. Once across the freeway, stop and turn right onto Old Santa Cruz Highway.
- Drive on curvy Old Santa Cruz Hwy for approximately 1-mile to Aldercroft Heights Road.
- Turn Left onto Aldercroft Heights Road and continue for approximately 1/2 mile until you come to a T-Section after the concrete bridge and make a right.
- Turn left at the address sign 20600.
- Take this one-lane driveway road about 1/4 mile and you will arrive at the Lupin gate.
Driving HIGHWAY 17 Northbound
- From: Santa Cruz
- Traveling on Highway 17 North, turn right at the Idylwild Drive exit.
- Drive on Idylwild about a 1/2 mile to Old Santa Cruz Highway. Stop and turn left.
- About 100 yards turn right onto Aldercroft Heights Road and continue for approximately 1/2 mile until you come to a T-Section after the concrete bridge and make a right.
- Turn left at the address sign 20600.
- Take this one-lane driveway road about 1/4 mile and you will arrive at the Lupin gate.