This year's Children's Fiesta Parade (Saturday, August 3, 2019) is now accepting applications for participants!

Please join us at one of our upcoming community workshops!

Skaters! Join us in an exciting and interactive community workshop where you can share your ideas, suggestions, and favorite images to guide the development for a new skate park as proposed in the Ortega Park Master Plan.

There’s a new fitness program in town, the City of Santa Barbara Parks and Recreation Department announced today. Fitness at the Rec, a partnership between the Department and Sweat SB Fitness, will be a membership-based program at the Carrillo Recreation Center in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara.

Join us for a volunteer workday on State Trails Day—Saturday, April 6—that will focus on restoring areas of our trails network damaged by the Thomas Fire and subsequent debris flow and rains. This year’s rains have added to continued wear on the trails. The trail work this year will be at Hot Springs Trail and Romero Trail.