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Courtesy Richard BentonRead MoreBalboa Park
This 1,200-acre park, which hosted the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, is home to many of San Diego’s museums and cultural attractions such as the Old Globe theatre, which hosts a summertime Shakespeare festival. Other highlights include the park’s iconic conservatory building...
Courtesy Joanne DiBonaRead MoreFlower Fields
These 50 acres of ranunculus, billowing in the breeze of a North County hillside, see more than 150,000 visitors each spring. These extraordinary and colorful flowers, which were unknown in North America until an English horticulturalist arrived to the area...
Read MoreLa Jolla Beaches
La Jolla, the beachside community just north of the downtown area, has become iconic to the surfing culture of Southern California. The chaparral bluffs that form the coastline are a gorgeous backdrop to the beach, and the reefs create surfable waves...
Read MoreLegoland
This Carlsbad area theme park might seem like more of a kiddie attraction, but even adults will enjoy seeing miniaturized versions of the U.S. Capitol building, the skyline of San Francisco and dinosaurs built out of Legos. The adjacent water...
Read MoreOld Town Historic Park
Old Town, the first European settlement on the west coast, has become a living museum of the original seventeenth-century village. While the rest of the city is developed around the neighborhood, the original church, Mission San Diego de Alcalá, still...
Courtesy San Diego Tourism AuthorityRead MoreSan Diego Zoo
With more than 3,700 animals and 700,000 plants, this sprawling zoo, which sits on 100 acres within Balboa Park, boasts an impressive collection of flora and fauna. Children and adults alike will delight in seeing pandas, condors, rhinos, jaguars and...
Read MoreSan Diego Zoo Safari Park
The San Diego Zoo is one of the most important conservation societies on the planet, having saved the California Condor (a vulture and the largest North American land bird) from extinction by breeding them in captivity. The park, opened in 1972...
Read MoreThe Gaslamp Quarter
As home to some of the best nightlife, restaurants and shops in the city, the Gaslamp Quarter is a buzzing hub of San Diego located downtown. The neighborhood is charming and quaint, having resisted the urban development that surrounds it...
Read MoreThe USS Midway Museum
Built into an aircraft carrier, the USS Midway Museum is one of the most unique in the country, displaying exhibits of America’s maritime past and present. The USS Midway was America’s longest-serving aircraft carrier (in operation from 1945 to 1992)...
Read MoreTorrey Pines State Natural Reserve
Named for the indigenous and rare Torrey pine tree, this 2,000-acre reserve of canyons and cliffs offers countless trails lined with wild flowers and chaparral, miles of unspoiled beaches and a lagoon that is vital to migrating seabirds. The ¾-mile...
