Welcome to the Santa Ynez Valley—the heart of Santa Barbara’s Wine Country! To discover everything to see, do, taste, stay and experience only 35 miles from the beaches of Santa Barbara, click on the website to request or download your FREE Solvang & Santa Ynez Valley Visitors Guide today! Visit the Santa Ynez Valley, founded in 2001 is a not-for-profit, membership-based destination marketing organization (DMO) promoting the entire Santa Ynez Valley as a year-round vacation destination. VisitSYV encourages responsible and sustainable tourism that retains the Valley’s rural, small-town character and unique sense of place in the six communities that it represents—Ballard, Buellton, Los Alamos, Los Olivos, Santa Ynez and Solvang. Cheers!