Pleasure Point is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Cruz County, California.

914 households (34.5%) were made up of individuals, and 251 (9.5%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

There were 3,091 housing units at an average density of 1,534.9 per square mile (592.6/km2), of which 52.0% were owner-occupied and 48.0% were occupied by renters.

The Spanish missions held onto their land and power for twelve years after the independence of Mexico from Spain in 1821.

The Mexican government seized the Mission lands and distributed it to a few powerful families, among them the Rodriguezes and the Arandas.

This area was used for cattle round ups by the Rodriguez and Castro families, in a natural amphitheater where the freeway crosses Rodeo Gulch.

Also known as "Los Coyotes", a one-quarter square league from Rodeo Gulch to Soquel Creek, from the sea up.

Rancho Encinalitos (little live oak ranch), owned by Alejandro Rodriguez, ran from Corcoran West and included the lands to Woods Lagoon.

Americans and Europeans joined with the Mexican Rancho families or through purchase gained land in the area.

In 1869, after a second notice they appealed yet were held to the smaller size because they didn't object in time.

1906 - Son, Edward died from mistakenly drinking acid, at his grandfather's ranch in Watsonville.

[7] As the contests between the surfers from Steamer Lane and Pleasure Point increased, the Pleasure Point Surfing Association reinvigorated the PPNF in the 1960s with the inspiration from Jim Phillip's, renowned surf art-skate artist under Harry Contie.

Famous surfers, including WSL Surfer Reilly Stone, Peter Mel, Jay Moriarty, Adam Repogle, Chris Gallagher, Kieran Horn, Marcel Soros, Flea Virostko, Kevin Reed, Richard Schmidt, Tanner Beckett, Christiaan Bailey, CJ Nelson and Homer Hernard.

The early big wave rider Fred Van Dyke and the inventor of the wetsuit, Jack O'Neill, are historic figures associated with this area.