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Best Things To Do In San Diego

Best known for its benign climate and fabulous beaches, San Diego is one big outdoor playground, famous for high-end resorts in La Jolla, world-class entertainment at SeaWorld Adventure Park and LEGOLAND, world famous San Diego Zoo and unique Balboa Park.

Bordered on the East by the magnificent Cuyamaca Mountains and blessed with the bounty of natural riches, San Diego has to offer more than 70 miles of walkable beaches and picturesque bays to its residents and guests. As if it weren’t enough, it enjoys perfect climate nearly all year round and easy access to well-maintained beaches for swimming, surfing and diving as well as underwater parks for snorkeling. With miles of single-track trails for mountain biking, plenty of verdant golf courses in the North region of the county and one of the most diverse recreational parks in the country at Mission Bay, no wonder, San Diego County attracts millions of people every year.

San Diego boasts a profusion of perfect coastal beaches with scenic ocean views and a bunch of top surf spots. There is hardly a better place for picnicking and surfing than Del Mar City Beach. Here, in Del Mar you will find the best dining as well a good selection of exquisite wines. Coastal area is lined with luxurious hotels and resorts.

The seaside village of La Jolla offers world-class accommodations, gourmet dining and wonderful family entertainment opportunities. Award-winning resorts, beautiful beaches, golf courses and tennis clubs makes this place a perfect vacation destination. Beach Aquarium at Scripps, offers a dazzling variety of marine life in touchable tide pool displays that rest above the rigged La Jolla coast. Here don’t miss the Hall of Fishes that represents more than 60 habitats ranging from the cold Pacific Northwest to the tropical waters of Mexico and the Caribbean.

Wildlife is also a big part of the county allure. Meet playful Atlantic bottlenose dolphins, sea lions and stingrays which you can even feed by hand at designated times at SeaWorld Adventure Park. The park features a 4-D movie and the Seasame Street Bay of Play, an interactive play area with family friendly rides. The visitors can also enjoy the trill of the Journey to Atlantis and close-up encounters with dolphins, penguins and sea lions.

Stroll through the King of the Missions – Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, Oceanside, which is the largest in the chain of 21 throughout the state. With major renovation under way, pay special attention to a re-created lavanderia and new interpretive gardens.

San Diego Zoo deserves a special attention with its new $44 million habitat set to open this spring featuring Elephant Odyssey that will house relatives of creatures that inhabited Southern California 100 years ago: Asian elephants, lions and wild horses.

If traveling with children, take them to LEGOLAND California Resort in Carlsbad. Here, in the new Land of Adventure they could check out the 16-foot-tall Pharaoh and temples which are all made of plastic bricks. Another reason to visit Legoland is the new SEALIFE Aquarium next door.

The second largest city in California, San Diego is also an urban playground, which attracts out-of-towners and locals alike to the high-end restaurants and late night music scene along Fifth Avenue in the Gaslamp Quarter, baseball fans to PETCO Park and culture and arts lovers to numerous world-class theatres and museums. Take your kids to the New Children’s Museum just recently opened in San Diego. The innovative hands on exhibits of this museum will encourage children to think, play and create. The brand-spanking-new museum is also green and features environmentally friendly architecture and practices.

USS Midway Museum in San Diego is also worth visiting, with its new permanent exhibit telling about how President Teddy Roosevelt’s Great White Navy Feet came to San Diego and created the largest navy complex in the world.

Oceanside Museum of Art features the new Central Pavilion expansion which is a two-story modernist gem. The art lovers will gaze at everything here, from classic landscape paintings to neon sculpture and art quilts.

Escape to Torrey Pines State Reserve featuring the rarest pine tree in North America. The bluff-side reserve has short trails that immerse hikers into magnificent and stunningly beautiful rare coastal environment.

Stroll through the Gaslamp Quarter in the very heart of downtown, with beautifully restored buildings housing some of the most popular shops and restaurants of the city. This is the place where Victorian commercial buildings will make you think you have stepped back in time.

You can also bike, skate or Kayak in Mission Bay which is a perfect aquatic playground with picturesque shores, calm clear waters and paved paths. Explore it on land or water and then have a snack at funky Mission Café.

Chug along Poway Midland Railroad through Old Poway Park aboard a lovingly restored locomotive, trolley or coach.

Take the Ferry to Coronado and enjoy this exciting 15-minute ride providing some of the best views of the city. The ferry runs every hour from the Broadway Pier, so you can tour Coronado on foot, by bus or by trolley whenever you please.

Listen to free Sunday Organ Recitals in Balboa Park and enjoy wonderful outdoor concerts and the crowds they draw. The live music runs the gamut from classical to contemporary.

Watch the seals at the Children’s Pool in La Jolla. These days, the sand of this tiny La Jolla cove is off-limits to humans, so you can get surprisingly close to these wonderful creatures and watch their playful behavior.