Those attractions of historical interest.
If you’re looking for a relaxing, inexpensive place to hang out, Old Poway Park and the Poway-Midland Railroad offer something for everyone. The park fills a full city block and is dotted with plenty of old trees offering abundant shade from the midday sun. You can plop down on the cool grass beneath the trees,… Read More Old Poway Park
Overview Just over an hour east of downtown San Diego is Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, nestled in the Peninsular Mountains at about 4,500 feet / 1,370 meters in elevation. It’s wide-open meadows are dotted with oaks, pine trees, trails, campgrounds, and split-rail fences. Other parts of the park butting up against taller mountains are more… Read More Cuyamaca Rancho State Park
High atop Point Loma is Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, with its commanding views of the Pacific Ocean, San Diego Harbor, and the city of San Diego. With over 101,000 individuals buried there, it certainly is humbling to stand among row after row of perfectly aligned, uniform grave markers, knowing that many of those laid to… Read More Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
San Diego and the United States Navy have been intertwined since the beginning of the 20th century, and one place where you can get a unique sense of that relationship is at the USS Recruit in Liberty Station. In an effort to bring the Navy to San Diego, Rep. William Kettner, pushed for the creation of… Read More USS Recruit
The San Diego Firehouse Museum in Little Italy is more than meets the eye from the outside, and is definitely worthy of your time to explore if you have even a modicum of interest in historical firefighting equipment. The museum is located in the old San Diego Fire Station Number 6, and contains historical firefighting… Read More San Diego Firehouse Museum
Mission San Juan Capistrano, with its delightful gardens, well-preserved buildings, and ruins of the Great Stone Church, certainly lives up to its nickname as the “jewel” of California’s 21 Spanish missions. Several things struck me as I entered the grounds of the mission. First, the size of the compound was much larger than I expected;… Read More Mission San Juan Capistrano
Perched on a hill overlooking Mission Valley is the site of San Diego’s first settlement—the Presidio—and the mission-like museum to Father Junípero Serra. When Spain finally decided to settle San Diego more than 200 years after Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo first landed in the harbor in 1542, they placed their settlement atop this hill just northeast… Read More Presidio & Junípero Serra Museum
No, not the television show—the San Diego neighborhood on the southeastern edge of Balboa Park. South Park isn’t perhaps as well-known as its bigger brother, North Park, or its cousin, Hillcrest, but don’t let that stop you from visiting this charming, eclectic neighborhood with a true community feel to it. The heart of South Park is… Read More South Park
The Map & Atlas Museum of La Jolla takes you on a historical, geographic journey back almost 500 years using rare and antique maps that show us the perception of the world long before the days of satellite images and Google Maps. The museum is on the courtyard (lower) level of the Merrill Lynch Building;… Read More Map & Atlas Museum of La Jolla
With the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, San Diego believed that it could become a great shipping port on the west coast—the first in the United States that ships would have an opportunity to visit as they sailed north. To sell the idea to the world, San Diego hosted the Panama-California Exposition in… Read More Santa Fe Depot
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