Local field potentials (LFPs) are becoming more popular in neurophysiological studies. However, to date, most of the knowledge about LFPs has been obtained from cortical recordings. Here, we recorded single unit activity (SUA) and LFPs simultaneously from the Superior Colliculus (SC) of behaving non-human primates. The SC is a midbrain structure, which plays a central role in the visual orienting response. Previous studies have characterized the visual and visuomotor response properties of SUA in the superficial layers of the SC (SCs) and the intermediate layers of the SC (SCi), respectively. We found that the signal properties of SUA were well preserved in the LFPs recorded from the SC. SUA and LFPs had similar spatial and temporal properties, and response properties of LFPs differed across layers: purely visual in the SCs while showing significant motor responses in the SCi. There were also differences between SUA and LFPs. LFPs showed a significant reversal of activity following the phasic visual response, suggesting that the neighbouring neurons were suppressed. Motor related bursts were relatively weaker in LFPs compared to SUA, suggesting that the saccadic motor bursts are generated within the SC. The results indicate that the LFP can be a useful tool to understand the sensorimotor processing within the SC.