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The Douglas Family Preserve is a public park in Santa Barbara, California. The Preserve is located on the mesa above Arroyo Burro Beach. The property spans 70 acres (280,000 m2) of undeveloped ocean-front land, and represents the largest area of coastal open space within the city limits of Santa Barbara. Although the official name of this area is the Douglas Family Preserve (see below), residents of Santa Barbara regularly refer to it by its older name, the Wilcox Property.

The Mesa Oil Field is an abandoned oil field entirely within the city limits of Santa Barbara, California, in the United States. Discovered in 1929, it was quickly developed and quickly declined, as it proved to be but a relatively small accumulation of oil in a single geologic formation. While the field was active in the 1930s, residential development in most of the Mesa neighborhood of Santa Barbara came to a halt. The field included two major productive areas with a total surface extent of only 210 acres (0.85 km2), and produced 3,700,000 barrels (590,000 m3) of oil during its brief lifetime.

Shoreline Park, a long, narrow ocean-side strip of land on top of a mesa (i.e. coastal bluff), is located in Santa Barbara, California, United States. Facing the Pacific Ocean, Shoreline Park is one of Santa Barbara's most popular parks.

Santa Barbara Point also known as Point Felipe is a cape in Santa Barbara County, California. It has an elevation of 3 feet / 0.91 meters, located on Leadbetter Beach, in Santa Barbara, California.

Arroyo Burro or Arroyo Burro Creek is a stream in Santa Barbara County, California. Arroyo Burro is 6 miles (9.7 km) long. Its source is in the Santa Ynez Mountains at the head of Barger Canyon at an elevation of 1,550 feet (470 m) at 34°28′49″N 119°44′39″W. It trends south to its confluence with the Santa Barbara Channel of the Pacific Ocean, 2.3 miles (3.7 km) west of Santa Barbara Point in the Arroyo Burro Beach County Park.

Elings Park (formerly Las Positas Friendship Park) is a 230-acre (0.93 km2) non-profit park located in Santa Barbara, California east of Las Positas Road and south of U.S. Highway 101. It is the largest privately funded park in America. The park consists of sports fields, hiking and biking trails, playgrounds, wedding/special event venues, and landscaped walkways. The park is a hub for mountain biking, youth sports, paragliding, and other outdoor activities. Elings Park International Raceway is the only dedicated radio control (R/C) off-road course in Santa Barbara and Elings Park BMX Raceway is the only dedicated BMX track in Santa Barbara as well. The north side of the park is built on top of the old, now-closed Santa Barbara City dump. The park's grand opening was in 1985, and it has changed names several times: at first it was "Las Positas Park"; in 1991 it became "Las Positas Friendship Park"; and in 1999, in honor of more than two million dollars given by Virgil Elings and his family, the park was renamed "Elings Park."

Arroyo Burro Beach, also known as Hendry's Beach by local residents, is a public beach in Santa Barbara County, California. Located off of Cliff Drive, it is the terminus of Arroyo Burro Creek, and stands at the foot of the Santa Barbara coastal bluffs of the Wilcox Property (i.e. Douglas Family Preserve), which is adjacent to the east. The community of Hope Ranch is about 1 mi (1.6 km) to the west. Arroyo Burro has a reputation as a dog beach and is a popular location for dog owners to walk their pets off leash, though Arroyo Burro itself is actually on-leash (the off-leash area is just east below the Douglas Family Preserve). Surfers also frequent the beach's waters, and outdoor showers facilitate the sport. The beach's other recreational features include a grassy area with picnic tables and barbecue grills, the Arroyo Burro County Park building which houses a restaurant and snack bar with outdoor and indoor seating, and a building constructed out of recycled and reclaimed materials that houses an ecological education center known as the Watershed Resource Center. The park officially opens at 8:00 am and closes at sunset, at which time entrance to the (free) parking lot is prohibited. However, vehicles parked before sunset can remain into the evening hours. A once popular restaurant known as The Brown Pelican formerly situated overlooking the beach closed in November 2007, after the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors declined to renew their lease of twenty-five years. The Boathouse opened up in August 2008 in its place, with new owners and significant remodeling.

Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) is a public community college in Santa Barbara, California. It opened in 1909 and is located on a 74-acre (30 ha) campus.

The Santa Barbara International Marathon and Half Marathon is a road race in Southern California. The race was first run in 1965 and was one of the first marathons in California. Since Santa Barbara itself is a popular tourist destination, it is also becoming a popular destination marathon. The point-to-point marathon course currently start at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta and finish at Santa Barbara City College in Santa Barbara, California. The marathon race can be used to obtain a qualifying time for the Boston Marathon.After a break of 24 years, the new series began on December 6, 2009. For the last five years the Santa Barbara City College has been the official host for the finish line and general operations. Rusty and June Snow are the co-directors of the race with Dan Campbell as the technical director. The Snow's moved from the East Coast and wanted to bring a marathon to Santa Barbara. After a few years of getting the race approved and organized it was finally set to happen in 2009, Rusty Snow states, “I learned to be stubborn from running marathons.” The Santa Barbara International Marathon course serves as a Boston Marathon qualifier.

Leadbetter Beach (also Ledbetter Beach) is a popular beach in Santa Barbara, California, situated below Leadbetter Hill. It is easily accessible from the Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) and the marina, and has light surf which is acceptable for learners. Because of the small surf and consistent winds, it is also a popular location for kitesurfers and windsurfers during the summer, when the wind is consistent. Of all the beaches in the city, this is one of the most frequently visited. Leadbetter is an artificial beach, built by accident. When Santa Barbara Harbor was built, it blocked the downshore current, holding up the natural sand flow. The college is built on the original coastline's front cliffs, now about 30 yards off-shore; the original beach front lies where the current SBCC football field is located. The blocking of sand from downshore cities prompted several lawsuits against Santa Barbara.

La Playa Stadium is the on-campus stadium for Santa Barbara City College in Santa Barbara, California, United States. The stadium has a capacity of 10,000. The venue serves as the home for the Santa Barbara City College Vaqueros football, soccer and track and field teams. The stadium also serves as the venue for the college's graduation ceremonies.The stands for the stadium are built into the side of a coastal bluff below the college campus. With no stands on the opposite side, it provides for a clear view of Leadbetter Beach, the Santa Barbara harbor and the Santa Barbara Channel portion of the Pacific Ocean across the street. Because of its proximity to the ocean, the stadium is under the jurisdiction of the California Coastal Commission.The stadium was also used as the football home stadium for the University of California, Santa Barbara from the days when it was known as Santa Barbara State College starting with the 1938 football season, and served that role until the 1965 season. Many of the Gauchos' games came against nearby rival Cal Poly. UCSB played their last game in the stadium against the Santa Clara University Broncos on October 30, 1965. The home venue was displaced by the on-campus Campus Stadium, which was later renamed Harder Stadium. La Playa Stadium is also the home of the Santa Barbara Easter Relays, a multi-day track and field carnival. It is the site where John Uelses cleared the first 16-foot pole vault outdoors, on March 31, 1962. See the Video on YouTube. It is also where Dallas Long set his first of seven world records in the shot put. It was the site of the women's division of the 1967 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Barbara Ferrell equaled the world record in the 100 meters; 11.1 (+0.3), at that championship, which would last until Wyomia Tyus broke it in the Olympic final, at altitude in Mexico City. Today, the stadium with the rare ocean view serves host to about five Vaqueros home football games per year, many against nearby rivals Allan Hancock and Ventura.

The Hastings adobe also called the Trussell-Winchester adobe is a California Historical Landmark in Santa Barbara, California. The house is one of the oldest in Santa Barbara, built in 1854. The adobe became a California State Historical Landmark No. 559 on December 31, 1956. The house is located at 414 West Montecito Street. The house was built by Horatio Gates Trussell (1814-1880) came to California from Maine. Trussell has sailed the seas from his youth and rose to be the captain of his own ship. On his trip to Santa Barbara, he fell in love with the city and Ramona Eayrs-Burke. He married Ramona on September 1, 1851. Isaac Sparks (1804–1867), Ramona's stepfather a merchant and rancher in the city deed the land for their new home. Trussell built the adobe brick and wood house near the present-day corner of West Montecito and Castillo streets. Rather than use the local custom of a Spanish tile roof, it had New England type wooden shingles. Trussell was able to get some of the timber needed from the shipwrecked SS Winfield Scott that sank off Anacapa Island in 1853. The Trussell family had 10 children and later built a two-story house a few blocks away. A local banker, William M. Eddy, from New York in 1849, purchased the house in 1878 and sold it to Uriah Winchester (1814- 1897) in 1882. Winchester also had come to California from Maine in 1869. Winchester made changes to the house, adding a room and enlarging others. Winchester family had six children. Two: Robert (1845-1932) became a doctor; Charlotte (1850-1942) married Stanley Bagg (1856-1931), who owned the famous The Tombstone Epitaph newspaper in Arizona from 1891 till 1895. Winchester family started to sell off parts of the lot in the 1920s. Charlotte's daughter, Katherine Bagg (1877-1955), married John Hastings. When Katherine died in 1955, with no children, the house was given to the Santa Barbara Historical Society per her will. California State Historical Landmark reads: NO. 559 HASTINGS ADOBE - Built in 1854 by Captain Horatio Gates Trussell of Orland, Maine, the adobe is partly constructed of material from the wreck of the S.S. Winfield Scott on Anacapa Island. The Winchesters acquired the adobe in 1882 and Katherine Bagg Hastings, niece of Miss Sarah Winchester, bequeathed it to the Santa Barbara Historical Society in 1935.