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Califórnia · the United States
In the destination Santa Maria and the Central Coast.
In the photo: Entrance to Santa Maria City Hall in California.
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
An agricultural city in northern Santa Barbara County on California’s Central Coast, at the center of a valley of strawberries, vegetables and vineyards. It’s the home of Santa Maria–style barbecue, cooked over oak coals. The town has a valley history museum and an aviation museum by the airport, and serves as a base for the Guadalupe dunes and La Purísima Mission.
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The local experience
Santa Maria Valley Historical Society Museum on South Broadway. It tells the history of the valley’s peoples, ranches, farms and schools and includes a section dedicated to Santa Maria barbecue.
Aviation museum at the north end of Santa Maria Airport, housed in two hangars: one covering early flight, the other covering aviation from World War II onward, with aircraft also on the ramp.
A county park at the end of West Main Street, west of Guadalupe, with high dunes, the mouth of the Santa Maria River and a beach open to the Pacific. It is one of the access points to the Guadalupe-Nipomo dunes.
Franciscan mission founded in 1787, rebuilt in its current location after the 1812 earthquake. The adobe buildings, restored in the 1930s, are in a state park near Lompoc, with gardens, livestock and trails.
