Santa Paula

245 S Palm Ave
Santa Paula, CA 93061
Location: Carrow's Restaurant
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Amtrak California's Motor Coach stop in Santa Paula is the neighborhood Carrow's Restaurant on Palm Ave. at Rte 126. Look for the bus stop sign in the south parking lot. Buses wait in the south parking lot.

Santa Paula is a stop for Amtrak Motor Coaches connecting the Amtrak stations in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties with the one in Bakersfield. People riding these Amtrak Motor coaches MUST be connecting either to or from an Amtrak train. Groups may arrange tours using Amtrak Motor Coaches and either Pacific Surfliner or San Joaquin trains.

There is no Amtrak ticket office in Santa Paula, hence no tickets, baggage handling or package express service to/from Santa Paula. Those services are available at Oxnard. Tickets may be purchased from an Amtrak travel agent, over the telephone from Amtrak at 1-800-USA-RAIL (1-800-872-7245) or over the internet from Amtrak's home page, www.tickets.amtrak.com

Although there is parking nearby, passengers are encourage not to leave autos in the Carrow's parking lot. Thanks.

Santa Paula is in the center of the "Heritage Valley" which stretches from the Pacific Ocean at Ventura to Los Angeles County Line near Great America. While much of Ventura County has become urban, the immediate area around Santa Paula retains the rich agricultural history of the County. Santa Paula celebrates its orange and lemon past at the annual Citrus Festival, held in Harding Park in mid July each year.

The Hansen Trust Farm was created in 1993 upon the death of Thelma Hansen, the last member of the John C. Hansen family of Saticoy. She left a restricted endowment to the University of California at Davis to sustain agriculture in Ventura County through research and education to benefit the community as a whole. They operate the Faulkner Farm, 14292 W. Telegraph Road, Santa Paula, CA 93060 with a pumpkin patch in October, and the annual Farm Fest in April.

The California Oil Museum in downtown Santa Paula, near the last remaining wooden Southern Pacific Railroad Station on its original site, recounts the earliest discoveries of oil and the founding of the Union Oil Company in Santa Paula.