San Vicente Creek (Spanish for "St. Vincent") is a 9.3-mile-long (15.0 km)[3] northern California coastal stream which flows entirely within Santa Cruz County.

Originally, there was a tidal marsh at the mouth of San Vicente Creek, but this was filled in by a trestle and rampart built by a collaboration between the Ocean Shore Railway and the Southern Pacific Transportation Company in 1906.

[4] Prior to this San Vicente had been the premiere trout fishing stream in the county, so the fill caused some outrage in the local papers.

A sawmill is swiftly cutting out the timber and dirt and debris defile the pools and clog the riffles where lurked the gamey trout.

San Vicente Creek is near the southern boundary of the coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) Central California Coast evolutionary significant unit (ESU).