
Plan Your Trip
A Santa Maria Valley experience is about being comfortable, having fun, and being yourself. This is a place where you're welcomed like old-time friends and fed like family.
Trips for Every Taste
If it’s been too long since your last weekend getaway and you need to stock your wine shelf (and fridge), we’ve got your weekend wine plans, stock lock and barrel.
Highlights
- Free Wine Tasting
- Sunset Wine Swirling
- Classic Santa Maria Style Barbecue
- Wine Trolley (seasonal)

Get a taste of recreation done #SantaMariaStyle. Grab your hiking shoes, helmet, flip flops and sense of adventure to experience 13 beaches, 24 hiking trails, cycling and more.
Highlights
- Cycling
- Hiking
- Beer and Pizza

Come hungry and experience fresh, delicious food steeped in tradition dating back 150 years. We have a style all our own, and you have to taste it to believe it.
Highlights
- Authentic Santa Maria Style Barbecue
- Easy outdoor hike to walk it off and take in the scenery
- Beer and wine
- A little more barbecue

Uncover the history of Santa Maria Valley and engage in the backstories of the things and people who have helped to make this great valley what it has become today.
Highlights
- "Ancient" relics in the dunes
- The oldest Buddhist temple in California
- La Purisima Mission State Park

Santa Maria Valley welcomes guests like family. So we invite you to let your hair down, kick your feet up and enjoy a weekend on your own, at your own pace.
Highlights
- Wine tasting
- Oso Flaco Lake
- Monarch butterfly grove

Play, learn and be together with family in Santa Maria Valley. Enjoy restaurants, hiking trails, sand dunes and museums to excite and engage your whole crew.
Highlights
- Berry Picking
- Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum
- Family-friendly vineyards

Few things are more romantic than a weekend in one of the most diverse wine regions in California. Santa Maria Valley is perfect for a getaway with your sweetheart.
Highlights
- Wine tasting
- PCPA theater
- Monarch butterfly grove
- Long walk on the beach

When was the last time you got away for the weekend, just you and the girls? We’re guessing it’s been too long!
Highlights
- Wine trolley (seasonal)
- Snacks and plenty of wine
- Sandalwood spa
- Easy hike at Oso Flaco Lake


Guides & Maps
From the best tacos to planning your route for authentic Santa Maria Style barbecue, we can help you map it out.
#SantaMariaStyle
We love to see you discover and share your own version of a #SantaMariaStyle getaway.