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Blue & Green 2012

Check out our annual ode to the great outdoors, with stories on hiking, beaching, animal tracking, and more.

2008 Blue & Green Guide

The sun started its hot shine early this year, spoiling us Santa Barbarans with summertime temperatures when spring was still roaring with rain, wind, and chill in less lucky climes.

Best of Santa Barbara Reader’s Poll, 2006

Superlatively speaking, isn’t this town the best? Not too big like that megalopolis to the south, or too teeny-tiny like the host of little villages sprinkled between Buellton and Old Cuyama. Surprisingly cultured for a town its size, with great museums, lively stages, and resounding music halls and clubs, it’s also a good place for eats, which comes as a result of its part-time job as a tourist town. We’re well-educated as well, exposed to many smart people from two colleges and a major university. It’s a land of parks and beaches and mountain trails and sunsets over red sails. But beyond all these generalizations is a town full of individuals who go to work, keep their homes nice, barbecue, and get out in the fresh air whenever they can. From those individuals we gleaned a list of voted-upon preferences in 225 categories of daily life here, in maybe a not perfect but definitely best of many possible Southern California worlds.

Blue & Green Guide 2006

Our Annual Blue & Green Guide
In one of our region’s oddest years of weather ever, this year’s cold, wet winter slipped into the June gloom we all know before we even entered May. But sunshine actually broke through for a few hours last week, offering us a glimpse of a hopefully bright summer to come. So it’s with perfect timing-fingers crossed-that we unveil our annual Blue & Green Guide to the great outdoors.

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