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The Lompoc Valley Flower Festival is an annual flower festival held in the city of Lompoc, located northern Santa Barbara County, California.. The event is organized and coordinated by The Lompoc Valley Festival Association, and is held annually at Ryon Memorial Park, for 5 days from Wednesday to Sunday on the last full weekend in June.
Name Image Affiliation City Coordinates Alta Vista Botanical Gardens: Vista: Arlington Garden: Pasadena: Balboa Park Gardens: San Diego: Ruth Bancroft Garden
Lompoc (/ ˈ l ɒ m p oʊ k / LOM-poke; Chumashan Purisimeño: lumpo'o̥) is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States.Located on the Central Coast, its population was 43,834 as of July 2021.
The Santa Barbara Zoo is located on 30 acres (12 ha) near the ocean in Santa Barbara, California. It was built on the site of what was known as the Child Estate. It has more than 500 animals in numerous exhibits, including capybara and California condors , and was known for having had a giraffe with a crooked neck.
The Santa Barbara County area, including the Northern Channel Islands, was first settled by Native Americans at least 13,000 years ago.Evidence for a Paleoindian presence has been found in the form of a fluted Clovis-like point found in the 1980s along the western Santa Barbara Coast, as well as the remains of Arlington Springs Man found on Santa Rosa Island in the 1960s.
The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is a 78-acre botanical garden (32 ha), [1] containing over 1,000 species of rare and indigenous plants. [2] It is located in Mission Canyon, Santa Barbara, California, United States. The purpose of the Garden is to display California native plants in natural settings. There are approximately 9.2 km (5.7 mi) of ...
Los Padres was named Santa Barbara National Forest until December 3, 1936, and was assembled from a number of smaller National Forests, including: [19] Monterey National Forest (est. June 25, 1906), absorbed by Santa Barbara on August 18, 1919, and which itself had absorbed: Pinnacles National Forest (est. July 18, 1906)
Andrée Clark Bird Refuge, a 42-acre (170,000 m 2) saltwater marsh, is one of the largest wildlife refuges in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. [1] The refuge has a 29-acre (120,000 m 2 ) freshwater / brackish lake, an artificially modified estuary , which drains through East Beach into the Pacific Ocean.