By Visit Ventura In a fast paced world, slow sometimes has a negative connotation. Here in Ventura, we see it as just the opposite. Slow allows for so much. Slow allows you to see. To really see. Whales exhaling misty spouts that hang in the air like phantom sails. Fog graced by sun’s first light, […]
By Visit Ventura Ventura is now in the Orange Tier. Here, in simple terms, is what it means. Thank you for caring about Ventura — and each other. And yes it’s a familiar refrain, but it’s also an important one. Please keep wearing your mask, maintain social distance, wash your hands frequently, and stay home […]
By Visit Ventura There has never been a better time to call out the quiet heroes. Or to remember the things that really matter. In difficult and upside down times, it is so easy to forget what has always been with us. What has always rested, steady and true, just beneath the tumultuous surface. What […]
By Visit Ventura Ventura’s 0utdoors are getting attention. No surprise. Read this paragraph alone, and you’ll see that the largesse is often hard to grasp … “After winter’s rains from late January through March, California’s remote Channel Islands erupt in a vibrant wildflower bloom. The island’s signature flower may be the coreopsis, which spreads itself […]
Spring, and the joy it brings, is here. Spring is colors. Spring is outdoor play. Spring is the simplest pleasures; warm sun on your skin, flower-lined trails in your line of sight. The Ventura Visitor Center gift shop has a host of unique, high-quality items to compliment Spring’s needs. From Patagonia jackets and sweaters for […]
By Visit Ventura “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who […]
On Wednesday, March 17th Ventura moves into the Red Tier. Here, in simple terms, is what it means. Thank you for caring about Ventura — and each other. Please keep wearing your mask, maintain social distance, wash your hands frequently, and stay home if you’re sick. We are moving forward toward the sun. Are hotels […]
By Visit Ventura Header image by Latitudes Fine Art Gallery History is right beneath our feet, men and women who lived their lives in their own time and place — sometimes a place vastly different from what we know; sometimes spot on the same. They too loved and lived, worked and warred, laughed and cried. […]
Why is Ventura the perfect road trip stop? Well for one thing, in these times a road trip anywhere might be the best medicine possible. For another, Ventura is in California, and if there’s a better road trip state than California, well, we’ll eat your wheels. A California road trip stuns you, beguiles you, seduces […]
by Debbie Cvijanovich The month of March. A glorious change of season. Anew. Alive. Active. Spring is peeking around the corner…season officially kicks off on March 20. BONUS: March is Women’s History Month. Bask in our spectacular Ventura weather one more hour as we Spring Ahead for Daylight Savings! How should we spend that precious extra […]
