They organize the annual Ventura County Fair and run the Derby Club, a live via satellite horse racing off-track wagering facility.

[4] Although the original race track and grandstand are long gone,[5] the Ventura Raceway is hosted at the fairgrounds when the fair is not in season.

[6] The Thousand Oaks shooting at the Borderline dance bar in November 2018 was a month before the last gun show of the year at the fairgrounds.

[12][13] X Games California 2023 (Summer) event finals which includes skateboarders, BMXers and Moto X riders were held at the fairgrounds in July 2023.

[14] Preparation included constructing a street arena for skateboarders and BMX athletes styled to look like a schoolyard with rails, benches and stairs; a skateboard and BMX park that looks like a California backyard, complete with a fire pit and a working hot tub; and massive mounds of dirt, sculpted into a high-air course for motocross riders.

[16] Ventura native and professional skateboarder Curren Caples performed in the men's elimination street event.

[20] Environmentalists projected reduced habitat and increased erosion rates on nearby beaches by the altered wave patterns.

[21][22][23] In 2011, the popular bike and pedestrian path was moved inland as part of a managed retreat project, a first of its kind in California.

[27] In 1922, a horse race was filmed here for The Pride of Palomar, a movie bankrolled by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Pictures.