Santa Anita Park, 285 W Huntington Dr, Arcadia, CA 91007
Here is what is coming up at Santa Anita Park, and what has already happened there. Concerts, games, festivals and the smaller nights that never surface in a generic search — no account needed.
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Every day· Next Nov 20
Santa Anita Park, 285 W Huntington…
The person you are buying for does not need another gift card. They need to walk through a maze made of a million Christmas lights and forget, for ninety minutes, that December is supposed to be stressful.
Enchant Christmas arrives at Santa Anita Park for its Los Angeles debut, and what they built is unreasonable — the world's largest Christmas light maze threading through the historic racetrack grounds, an ice skating trail that loops through the installations instead of sitting in a parking lot, and a holiday village where the vendors actually made the things they are selling. Entry begins at 5:30 PM when the sun is just low enough for the lights to win.
The maze is not a walk-through tunnel. It is a puzzle — paths that branch, dead ends that reward you with a view you would have missed on the straight route, and enough square footage that the crowd never feels like a crowd. Children run ahead. Couples slow down. The person who said they did not want to come is the last one to leave.
Santa Anita's architecture does most of the heavy lifting. The Art Deco grandstand lit from below looks like it was designed for this, and the infield becomes an alpine village that smells like kettle corn and pine. The ice skating trail winds through themed zones instead of going in circles, and there is a snow slide for the family whose youngest member has never seen snow.
November 20 through December 28, 2026, nightly. Tickets at enchantchristmas.com. The lights are the excuse. The feeling is the product.
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Oct 1 – Nov 1, 2026
Santa Anita Park, 285 W Huntington…
You can stand at the walking ring with a general admission ticket and watch a top-class thoroughbred saddled up close, the San Gabriel Mountains rising straight behind the paddock - it is one of the enduring images of American horse racing, and it is open to you. This track has been a fixture of Southern California life since 1934.
The fall stakes program includes several Grade I and Grade II races that pull horses from beyond California - trainers targeting the Breeders' Cup championships in November use these fall races as condition tests. The Santa Anita handicaps and the Oak Tree Racing Association's fall program deliver a quality of racing uncommon in the fall California calendar, and the paddock is the best place in American racing to see these horses before a stakes race.
Santa Anita Park is at 285 W Huntington Dr in Arcadia, reachable from the I-210 and US-210, with the Metro L Line at Arcadia station connecting to a free race-day shuttle. On-site parking. General admission covers the apron, grandstand, and paddock; clubhouse and terrace upgrades are available. Racing runs Friday through Sunday and select Mondays through early November 2026.
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Jun 19 – Jun 21, 2026
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Santa Anita Park, 285 W Huntington…
They believed a parking lot could become the most culturally specific address in Los Angeles for a weekend, if the right food and the right community showed up together. The 626 Night Market proved that belief correct at scale — and in 2026, it returns to Santa Anita Park for the first summer weekend in June.
Over 200 vendors spread across the grounds, most of them rotating dishes that don't exist on restaurant menus: regional Taiwanese street food, Hong Kong egg waffles with flavors designed at midnight, Thai rolled ice cream, Japanese kakigori, versions of Filipino desserts that require explanation. The entertainment stages run throughout, and the crowd — tens of thousands across the three days — is as much the attraction as the food.
This is the community event that defines the San Gabriel Valley's summer. It runs Friday through Sunday, 3pm to 10:40pm. Arrive after dark if you want the atmosphere the market was designed for.
Free parking. Advance tickets available at 626nightmarket.com. June 19–21, 2026. Santa Anita Park, 285 W Huntington Dr, Arcadia.
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Monthly· Next Oct 19
Santa Anita Park, 285 West Hunting…
The heat comes off the asphalt and the whole lot smells like ten countries at once — charcoal and frying oil and brown sugar and something skewered you cannot name yet but will be eating in four minutes.
This is the night the San Gabriel Valley throws its doors open, and if you grew up near it, walking in feels less like arriving at an event than coming home to one. Thirteen years and 2.3 million people through the gates have made it an institution.
The food is the gravity. Hundreds of stalls, the forty-minute lines worth every minute, the one you only find because a stranger two people ahead told you to. But it is not only food: indie artists, fashion racks, live sets, and a crowd that finally looks like the actual breadth of Asian-American Southern California instead of a sliver of it.
June 19-21, 2026, 3 to 11 PM nightly. Santa Anita Park, 285 West Huntington Drive, Arcadia — off the 210, parking on-site. Entry about $6, cash past the gate.
Come hungry enough to regret nothing.