Picnic Sites

To reserve a picnic area, we need to receive the contract completed, signed, and dated along with Payment in full of Rental Fee of $250.00 (which includes a Non-Refundable Reservation Fee of $125), and an additional $250 Refundable Security Deposit. We cannot hold dates. Please see your rental contract for more details.

All Picnic Areas, Cappello, Fenton Davison and Pine Grove can be rented from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

IF music is part of your event, ALL music must be kept to a minimum level, especially if there are games on the fields. Please refer to your rental contract, Section 2.

Unfortunately, we do not allow any live music, amplified bands, amplifiers or boom boxes at the Picnic Areas. A small, handheld Bluetooth personal speaker is allowed and your sound will be monitored by our Park Hosts.

The rental includes the picnic area for the rental times on your rental contact, ability to serve alcohol, complimentary parking for you and your guests and access to restrooms. Our maintenance staff will clean the site prior to your event reservation. Any playground or play area is NOT INCLUDED in your Picnic Area Rental.

Decorations or signage are allowed. However, nails, screws, heavy tape, staples, or other damaging types of ways to secure decorations/signs are prohibited. String or zip ties are okay and MUST be removed during clean up and before your rental time ends. No tying or hanging items on Blue Canopy at Cappello Picnic Area.

We have a strict no flame policy and that includes all type of candles, enclosed or not, sparklers and tiki-torches. Charcoal or briquettes only are allowed for grills-no wood allowed. It’s always fire season in Santa Barbara.

If you are renting any of our venues, general or personal liability insurance is required. You must add Elings Park Foundation as an additional insured with a minimum of $1,000,000 in coverage. You can purchase a oneday event policy through www.wedsafe.com or www.wedsure.com. And if serving alcohol, Host Liquor Liability of $1,000,000 is also required. Please refer to your signed Rental Agreement for details.

We LOVE our four-legged guests but they must be current members of Elings Park’s Dog Membership Program to be at the park. Please see our website for more information on how you and your pup can benefit from the program, http://www.elingspark.org/epdog/

Cappello, Fenton Davison and Pine Grove areas can accommodate a maximum 75 people. Elings Park follows any current guidelines on maximum allowed people per State & SB County Public Health Departments.

ALL parking for your event will be in the parking lot adjacent to the Softball Fields or in a marked spot along the main road of the park. Vehicles are NOT ALLOWED on walkways, fields, grass areas or in picnic areas. We recommend wagons, hand trucks or carts to transport any items to/from picnic area.

All Vendors must be approved in writing by Elings Park before they are permitted to work at the park. Any catering vendor must have a current Santa Barbara County Public Health Dept. Permit.

The picnic areas do not have lighting past Sunset so we recommend all event and cleanup completed prior by the Rental End Time.

You may bring your own alcohol and it may be served and consumed as a condition of an executed rental agreement. Alcohol may only be served to adults over the age of 21. Selling alcohol is prohibited.

Your site will be cleaned prior to your rental start time. You, the renter, are responsible for cleaning the site at the end of the venue rental time. The picnic areas do not have lighting past sunset all event and cleanup must be completed by the Rental End Time. We have two dumpsters located at the back of the Park’s Office Parking lot where you can dump your trash at the end of the event. You are responsible for leaving the venue in the same clean condition in which it was upon your arrival.

If inclement weather makes the conditions unsafe for your event, we can reschedule your event to another date, subject to availability. Please carefully read Section 16 of the Rental Contract.