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Mission Bay is an artificial, saltwater bay located south of the Pacific Beach community of San Diego, California, created from approximately 2,000 acres (810 ha) of historical wetland, marsh, and saltwater bay habitat.
September 7, 1967 [ 1] Balboa Park is a 1,200-acre (490 ha) historic urban cultural park in San Diego, California. [ 3][ 4] Placed in reserve in 1835, the park's site is one of the oldest in the United States dedicated to public recreational use. The park hosts various museums, theaters, restaurants, and the San Diego Zoo.
Mission Beach is a community built on a sandbar between the Pacific Ocean and Mission Bay. It is part of the city of San Diego, California. Mission Beach spans nearly two miles of ocean front. It is bounded by the San Diego River estuary on the south, Mission Bay Park on the east, and the community of Pacific Beach on the north. A boardwalk ...
The San Diego Air & Space Museum ( SDASM) is an aviation and space exploration museum in San Diego, California. The museum is located in Balboa Park and is housed in the former Ford Building, which is listed on the US National Register of Historic Places. [ 5] SDASM was established by articles of incorporation on October 12, 1961, and opened to ...
The Giant Dipper, also known as Mission Beach Roller Coasterand historically by other names, is a historical wooden roller coasterlocated in Belmont Park, a small amusement park in the Mission Beacharea of San Diego, California. Built in 1925, it and its namesakeat the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalkare the only remaining wooden roller coasters on ...
In 1946 the Balboa Park grounds and buildings were returned to the city. [5] During the Vietnam War-era, the complex was the largest military hospital in the world. [6] Aerial view of the Naval Medical Center San Diego as seen in the 1950s
San Diego–Tijuana is an international transborder agglomeration, [ 5] straddling the border of the adjacent North American coastal cities of San Diego, California, United States, and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The 2020 population of the region was 5,456,577, making it the largest bi-national conurbation shared between the United States ...
Sunset Cliffs, San Diego. Coordinates: 32°43′47.02″N 117°15′09.21″W. A swimming beach at the base of the Sunset Cliffs. Sunset over the Pacific Ocean, as seen from Sunset Cliffs. Sunset Cliffs is an affluent coastal community in the Point Loma community of San Diego, California. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west, Ocean ...