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Geography. Ocean Beach lies on the Pacific Ocean at the estuary of the San Diego River, at the western terminus of Interstate 8. Located about 7 mi (11 km) northwest of downtown San Diego, it sits south of Mission Bay and Mission Beach and directly north of Point Loma. The O.B. community planning area comprises about 1 square mile (742 acres ...
On clear days, it provides astonishing panoramic views of Mission Bay, the Pacific Ocean, Pacific Beach, Mission Beach, Ocean Beach, downtown San Diego and glimpses of San Diego Bay and Coronado. The park is dedicated to Kate Sessions, a botanist, horticulturalist, and landscape architect who lived and worked in San Diego from 1884-1940 ...
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.
These beaches stretch from the mouth of San Diego Bay to the border with Tijuana, Mexico in the south. Coronado: [14] Coronado Central Beach. North Beach. Glorietta Bay. Silver Strand State Beach. Ferry Landing Marketplace. Imperial Beach: [15] Imperial Beach, the pier.
Mission Bay (San Diego) Coordinates: 32°46′45″N 117°14′3″W. Aerial view of Mission Bay. 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. The bay is part of the ...
Description [3] 16. Whaling Station Site. Ballast Point Peninsula. 11/6/1970. Shore station where whale blubber was boiled down for the oil in the 1850s and 1860s, halfway out on the inner beach of Ballast Point. 17. Lighthouse of 1854. Cabrillo National Monument.
The Giant Dipper, also known as Mission Beach Roller Coaster and historically by other names, is a historical wooden roller coaster located in Belmont Park, a small amusement park in the Mission Beach area of San Diego, California. Built in 1925, it and its namesake at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk are the only remaining wooden roller coasters ...
Silver Strand State Beach, which encompasses both the San Diego Bay and Pacific Ocean sides of the strand, is a little farther off the beaten path of the highly popular beaches in Ocean Beach and Mission Beach, offering more solitude for those who wish to avoid beach crowds. The ocean side of the strand features 2.5 miles (4.0 km) of coastline ...