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Mission Trails Regional Park is a 7,220-acre (29.2 km 2) open space preserve in San Diego, California. The park was established in 1974. The park was established in 1974. It is the sixth-largest municipally owned park in the United States, and the largest in California.
Cowles Mountain (/koʊlz/, /kaʊlz/ {a proscribed pronunciation}; properly KOHLZ, commonly KOWLZ) is a prominent mountain in San Carlos, San Diego, California. The 1,593-foot (486 m) summit is the highest point of the city of San Diego. It is protected within Mission Trails Regional Park.
Old Mission Dam is located about 5 miles (8.0 km) northeast of the site of Mission San Diego de Alcalá, in the hills northeast of San Diego. It spans the San Diego River, which was historically a seasonal body of water which dried out in the summer. The dam is built out of stone and cement, and was 220 ft long (67 m), 13 ft wide (4.0 m) at its ...
The Otay Mountain Wilderness is a U.S. wilderness area in San Diego County, California, 12 miles east of the community of Otay Mesa and just north of the Mexico–United States border. Some parts of the wilderness area rise quickly from sea level, reaching a peak of just over 3,500 feet (1,100 m) at the summit of Otay Mountain. [3]
The mountain is the northernmost of the five peaks that dominate the center of Mission Trails Regional Park. Due to the surrounding lower mesa topography, Fortuna is easily visible to those traveling on nearby Interstate 15 through Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and those on State Route 52 over the Mission Trails Summit between San Diego and ...
In 1971, there was a state proposal to remove SR 209 from the state highway system, which the City of San Diego objected to. [27] However, SR 209 was deleted from the system in 2003, [28] [dead link ] and had been given to the City of San Diego in 2001. [29]
State Route 163 (SR 163), or the Cabrillo Freeway, is a state highway in San Diego, California.The 11.088-mile (17.844 km) stretch of the former US 395 freeway runs from downtown San Diego just south of an interchange with Interstate 5 (I-5), extending north through historic Balboa Park and various neighborhoods of San Diego to an interchange with I-15 in the neighborhood of Miramar.
El Camino Real (Spanish; literally The Royal Road, sometimes translated as The King's Highway) is a 600-mile (965-kilometer) commemorative route connecting the 21 Spanish missions in California (formerly the region Alta California in the Spanish Empire), along with a number of sub-missions, four presidios, and three pueblos.