Just hours after the Santa Barbara County Fair officially closed Sunday night, the Santa Maria Fairpark looked dramatically different on Monday morning, with Fairpark staff, commercial vendors, exhibitors, carnival employees, and livestock students all busy hard at work, breaking down, cleaning up and clearing out.
The 130th Annual Santa Barbara County Fair opens its gates to the public on Wednesday afternoon, beginning a much-anticipated five-day run at the Santa Maria Fairpark.
With just hours to go until the official opening of the 130th Annual Santa Barbara County Fair, final preparations are taking place all across the Santa Maria Fairpark.
Hundreds of local agriculture students from Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties helped kick off the 130th Annual Santa Barbara County Fair with the start of the Junior Livestock Show on Monday morning.