El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park
Central Coast
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 5.8
- Established
- 1966
parks detail
- Hook
- The 1782 Spanish fort quarter in downtown Santa Barbara, chapel restored on its original foundations
- More
- The 1782 fort's chapel and quarters are reconstructed on original foundations in the middle of downtown — the Presidio's cannon still fires on Founding Day. Its research wing helped restore Japanese-American history on the same block: the preserved Nihonmachi storefronts tell that later chapter.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 34.423, -119.696