Santee Street Fair & Craft Beer Festival draws more than 30,000 attendees to Santee's Mission Gorge Road corridor each Memorial Day weekend, staging over 300 vendor booths, carnival rides, and live entertainment as East County's largest single-day block party since the event launched in 2010. The craft beer garden showcases San Diego County breweries on a rotating tap list that has included pours from BNS Brewing and Distillery on Wheatlands Avenue. A dedicated Heroes Stage honors military families with a memorial exhibit for California's fallen service members from the War on Terror. The food-vendor corridor lines Mission Gorge Road with over a dozen grill stations, including the smoked-meat operations that anchor Phil's BBQ year-round on the same stretch. The Santee Chamber of Commerce produces the event with a VIP beer-garden package that bundles 10 taster pours and a meal ticket for attendees 21 and older.