Highway 9 through Felton, Ben Lomond and Boulder Creek is two lanes, mostly shaded, short on pullouts and shorter on cell signal. A dead battery at Henry Cowell, a flat on the curve past Felton Faire, an empty tank halfway to Boulder Creek with the only station closed: these are the calls Santa Cruz Aptos Auto Towing takes from the valley, and the truck comes up Graham Hill Road or Highway 9 from Santa Cruz with a jump pack, lockout tools, a tire kit and fuel. Call (831) 464-1155 before you lose signal, give the nearest cross road or mile marker, and stay with the car.
Roadside assistance Felton CA begins with location, because the valley is hard to search. The dispatcher asks for the nearest cross street, business or mile marker on Highway 9, which side of the road you are on, and whether the car is off the pavement. If your signal is weak, say the location first and the problem second; the location is what the driver needs if the call drops.
The driver arrives, fixes what can be fixed at the roadside, and tests the result; roadside assistance Felton CA is not finished until the car runs or is on the truck. A battery that takes a jump is checked along with the alternator. A flat gets the spare or a plug. Keys locked inside are retrieved without damage. A dry tank gets enough fuel to reach the station in Felton. If none of that gets the car moving, the same truck tows it down the hill or to a shop in Felton.
Between Felton and Boulder Creek the shoulder comes and goes. The safest stops are the wide spots at Henry Cowell’s main entrance, the Felton Covered Bridge turnoff, the lots in downtown Ben Lomond, and the Boulder Creek downtown blocks. If the car will roll, get to one of those rather than stopping on a blind curve under the trees. If it will not, pull as far right as the pavement allows, hazards on, and get out on the uphill side away from traffic.
Roadside service Highway 9 drivers call for most often is the flat tire on the curves south of Ben Lomond and the dead battery in a trailhead lot. Both are quick once the truck is there with roadside assistance Felton CA; the time is in the drive up, so the clearer the location, the sooner it is done. Felton roadside assistance calls that give a mile marker are the ones that go smoothly.
Felton’s lots produce most of the valley’s jump starts. Henry Cowell’s day-use lot and the Roaring Camp lot hold cars for hours while families hike or ride the train, and the interior light left on by a kid in the back seat drains a battery by closing time. Felton Faire and the Safeway lot see the lockouts: a fob on the seat, a trunk closed on the keys. Graham Hill Road, the other way into the valley, has wider shoulders than Highway 9 and is where the driver will often ask you to wait if you are between the two.
Ben Lomond roadside assistance is usually a Highway 9 call at the downtown blocks or a driveway call on the side roads toward Love Creek and Alba Road, where the pavement narrows and a flatbed cannot turn around. The service truck can; say which road and how far up so the driver brings the right vehicle.
Boulder Creek roadside assistance reaches up to Big Basin Way and out along Bear Creek Road, the farthest the valley goes from the yard. Fuel calls are common here because the station closes early and the next one is in Felton. Boulder Creek roadside assistance after dark also means a cold wait, so if you have a blanket and water in the car, use them, and if you do not, say so and the driver will bring water.
Valley winters bring Highway 9 closures for slides and downed trees, PG&E outages that shut the gas pumps, and nights when the only cell signal is at the top of a driveway. Felton roadside assistance in a storm follows the road closures: if Highway 9 is shut between Felton and Ben Lomond, the truck comes around by Graham Hill, Zayante Road or Bear Creek Road, and the dispatcher tells you which. If you have no signal where the car stopped, walk to where you do, call, then go back to the car. Do not leave a note and drive off with a stranger; the truck comes to the car you described, not to you.
Ben Lomond roadside assistance and the rest of the valley continue through storms as long as the roads are passable. San Lorenzo Valley roadside assistance stops only when CHP closes the highway entirely, and then the dispatcher tells you that too.
Santa Cruz Aptos Auto Towing has run the valley from its Santa Cruz yard since the 1970s, which means the drivers know Highway 9 by its curves, know which side roads a flatbed cannot enter, and know the detours when the highway closes. The phone is answered 24 hours a day by a dispatcher who can send a truck, roadside assistance Felton CA runs through storms as long as the road is open, and San Lorenzo Valley roadside assistance is the same call at midnight in January as it is at noon in July. Roadside service Highway 9 customers remember is the driver who found them on a dark curve from a mile marker, and that is the standard.
The truck comes from Santa Cruz by Graham Hill Road or Highway 9. Felton is closest; Boulder Creek is the farthest. The dispatcher gives an estimate for your location and tells you if a closure changes the route.
Your location: nearest cross road, business or mile marker, and which direction you were heading. Then the problem. If the call drops, the driver still knows where to go.
The service truck can reach most side roads that a flatbed cannot. Tell the dispatcher the road name and roughly how far up you are.
Yes. The truck carries enough fuel to get you to an open station. Say whether the car takes gasoline or diesel.
The dispatcher routes the truck around by Graham Hill, Zayante or Bear Creek Road and tells you the plan. If CHP has closed the road entirely, you will be told that too.
Call Santa Cruz Aptos Auto Towing at (831) 464-1155 while you have signal, give the nearest cross road or mile marker, and stay with the car. A truck will come up with a jump pack, lockout tools, a tire kit and fuel.
