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A joint-use agreement between the San Diego City Council and the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) is bringing a recreation space to Jefferson Elementary School in North Park.
Both the City and the School District approved the $1.9 million park space, located south of University Avenue at 3770 Utah St. Work on the park was completed last month
The Balboa Park Committee will hold a meeting Saturday, Jan. 8, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. to hear public testimony on proposed changes for Balboa Park, including a parking garage and bypass bridge.
Few places in the city offer such serenity as the Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park
By Christy Scannell — SDUN Editor
In North Park, Councilmember Todd Gloria joined community members and other city officials Feb. 26 to break ground for a new 6,000-square-foot playground at Montclair Park, 2791 Nile St. The $346,000 project – financed with city funds and insurance settlement funds – will create separate active areas for toddlers and older children, including swings, slides, and climbing walls. An ADA-compliant rubber surface will feature images of sun, leaves and sky. The park has been without a playground since a drunk driver damaged the site in 2007. Construction is expected to be completed by the end of June
By Priscilla Lister
SDUN Columnist
The Morley Field gateway to Florida Canyon offers some of the longest continuous hiking trails in Uptown. For a bonus, there are even some fine views of the Coronado Bridge and the Coronado Islands
Take a walk through its 12 acres of peaceful space in Golden Hill, bordered from Cedar to C streets, between 31st and 33rd. You’ll smell the sage, ponder the leafy pepper trees and trod a trail which has been softened with loads of sawdust
Florida Canyon could serve as the very definition of urban oasis.
This 150 acres of coastal sage scrub habitat within the 1,400 acres of Balboa Park is said to offer a glimpse of the original landscape of Balboa Park. It is mostly natural vegetation, having had little interference from the city in the last 100 years
Pioneer Park in Mission Hills is the perfect spot for a Halloween wander — if you dare.
It once was the site of the Calvary Cemetery, a Catholic burial ground where some 4,000 bodies were laid to rest from about 1876 to 1960.
Far from the madding crowds in the center of Balboa Park is a trail in its southwest corner that takes you to a little-known historic building, a grove of Coast Redwoods, and under the boughs of some beautiful old trees
Dedicated in 1912, the Spruce Street Suspension Bridge is supported by cables embedded in massive concrete slabs beneath the soil. The 375-foot-long bridge literally suspends over the canyon, and a sharp wind gust — or teenagers — can make it swing slightly. Some people find it scary, so be forewarned