Earl Warren Showgrounds

Santa Barbra, CA

The Earl Warren Showgrounds is a multi-use community event and emergency resiliency center serving the existing and changing needs of Santa Barbara's culture, history, and community.
The showgrounds provides space for shared experiences and serves as a hub for gatherings, including:

Agile, accessible, affordable.

Serving the needs of our community.

Serving the changing needs of our community.

Serving as a trustee of public trust and of a public asset

Inclusivity, place where all can belong

Environmental and agriculture stewardship.

The Showgrounds exists:

To serve as stewards of a public resource and asset and make the resources and asset available to the community.

To provide locally relevant activity and event space that is multi- purpose and diverse in its offerings

To celebrate community talent, diversity, spirit and provide the ties that bind the community together

To promote, educate, and connect the community to agriculture

The Earl Warren Showgrounds serves the entire community, particularly the communities within the parameters of the 19th DAA District. (Defined as Carpinteria to Gaviota)

As one of the top 5 used staging areas in the State of California for Emergency Management staging. EWS is committed to improving our infrastructure to be better partners with our community and emergency services partners.