Elverhoj Museum of History and Art
1624 Elverhoy Way Solvang CA
Phone: 805-686 1211
Fax: 805-686-1822
e-mail: esther@elverhoj.org
Open Wednesday through Sunday and by appointment. Call for hours: (805) 686-1211.
www.elverhoj.org

Lake Cruises
Climb aboard the 46-passenger "Osprey" for a 2-hour lake tour with a naturalist. From November through February, tours focus on the Bald Eagles and unusual birds who make Cachuma Lake their winter home. From March 1 through October, the cruise takes a look at area wildlife, wildflowers, and resident birds along the shore. Phone: 805-686-5050. $15/adults; $7/child 12 and under.
www.sbparks.org/DOCS/cachuma2.html

Glider Rides
at the Santa Ynez Airport
Phone: 805-688-2517
For over 50 years gliding enthusiasts have thrilled to the Valley's favorable air currents and breathtaking views. Glider rides in a piloted, two-seater sail plane are available year-round; glider-flying instruction is also available.
www.gliderrides.com

Mission La Purisima State Historic Park
La Purisima Mission was the eleventh mission of the twenty-one Spanish Missions established in what became California. Mision La Purisima Concepcion de Maria Santisima was founded on December 8, 1787 by Franciscan Padre Presidente Fermin Francisco Lasuen.
www.lapurisimamission.org/

Mission Santa Inés
1760 Mission Drive
the nineteenth of the twenty-one California Missions established by Franciscan priests from 1769 to 1823. Having experienced many changes, since its founding, Old Mission Santa Inés remains rich in tradition, legend, and history. Mission Santa Inés has a museum displaying early European and Indian art.
www.missionsantaines.org/home.html

Santa Ynez Valley History Museum
3596 Sagunto Santa Ynez
Phone: 805-688-7889
The museum includes the Carriage House which was dedicated to the late Tom Parks and Fred Bixby by Mrs. Betty Parks and Mrs. Elizabeth Bixby Janeway. This impressive building houses an outstanding collection of more than 35 horse-drawn vehicles. Included are surreys, stage coaches, phaetons,
carts, broughams, and buckboard wagons, as well as a hitch wagon, dray, runabout, hearse, hunt wagon, shooting brake and military supply wagon. Many are on permanent loan from the Los Adobes de los Rancheros. www.syvm.org/

Solvang Theaterfest
420 Second St. Solvang CA
Phone: 805-686-1789
Fax: 805-686-5912
e-mail: theaterfest@verizon.net
The Solvang Theaterfest maintains and operates the Solvang Festival Theater, a 700 seat outdoor facility that operates primarily from June through October, providing a space for PCPA Theaterfest productions. It is thanks to an energetic Board of Directors and a supportive community that the theater has been in operation since 1974.
www.pcpa.org

Solvang Vintage Motorcycle Museum
320 Alisal Road, Solvang, CA 93463
Phone: 805-686-9522
The motorcycles in the museum are from the private collection of Virgil Elings. He has been collecting motorcycles for 2 decades. The collection is quite broad with something for everyone, ranging from a 1910 FN to the present, and across all makes. The emphasis is tilted toward racing motorcycles since Virgil and his son Jeff were involved in vintage motorcycle racing, both motocross and road racing.
www.motosolvang.com/

Space Endeavor Center
www.endeavours.org