Travel
El Capitan Canyon is located in Goleta, CA, which is about a 20 minute drive from Santa Barbara, and about a 2/2.5 hour drive from the LAX airport, depending on traffic.
For anyone flying into the LAX airport—we would advise you to fly in by the early afternoon on Friday to avoid the traffic to Goleta. Traffic gets worse the later you wait! And you can always spend some time in beautiful Santa Barbara before the check-in time at 4pm.
Rental cars are available at the LAX airport.
You can also fly into the Santa Barbara Airport—no rental car needed! Just take an Uber/Lyft from the airport to El Cap.