A youth charity built San Diego's tennis headquarters - then the pros came to it. The Barnes Tennis Center at 4490 West Point Loma Boulevard, beside the San Diego River near Ocean Beach, was built between 1995 and 1997 by Youth Tennis San Diego, the non-profit whose after-school programs have served the city's underserved neighbourhoods since 1953. The facility grew into one of the country's premier public racquet complexes: 25 tennis courts including two clay, 19 pickleball courts, 7 padel cour.....

A barn-style playhouse inside a state historic park hosted one of San Diego's great theatre success stories for seventeen years. The Old Town Theatre at 4040 Twiggs Street - known through that era as Cygnet Theatre - stands in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, the preserved birthplace of California where costumed interpreters work streets frozen in the 1840s-1872 period. The building itself dates to 1979, constructed by the state with funds raised by local actor Polly Puterbaugh after the .....

In the historic Old Town district of San Diego, GoCar offers one of the most unusual ways to explore the city, a fleet of brightly coloured, three-wheeled, two-seater vehicles equipped with talking GPS tour guides that lead drivers along carefully chosen scenic and historic routes. The company first opened in San Francisco in 2004 with a small fleet of European-made motorised "Carvers" and later branched into San Diego and several other tourist destinations, including Lisbon, Miami and Barcelona.....

The famous outdoor stage next door seats 1,400 under the palms - but the year-round music at this address happens in the lounge, where the bands play nightly with the marina lights behind them. Humphreys Backstage Live, at 2241 Shelter Island Drive on San Diego's Shelter Island, is the intimate waterfront music lounge of the Humphreys complex, sharing the site with Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, Humphreys Restaurant and the Half Moon Inn. The room's formula has run for decades: Southern Califor.....

Set on the waterfront of San Diego's Shelter Island, Humphreys Concerts by the Bay is a beloved open-air concert venue with one of the most picturesque settings on the West Coast. Part of the Humphreys Half Moon Inn and marina, the intimate outdoor stage looks out over the boats and the bay, and for decades its summer season has been a much-anticipated fixture of the city's cultural calendar. The venue is a compact outdoor amphitheatre seating around fourteen hundred people, with chairs arrange.....

On the Embarcadero waterfront in downtown San Diego just opposite the bustling Broadway Pier, the Maritime Museum of San Diego operates one of the largest collections of historic seafaring vessels in the United States. The non-profit museum was founded in 1948 with the acquisition of the iron-hulled barque Star of India, the oldest active sailing ship in the world, and has grown over the intervening decades into a fleet of more than a dozen historic and replica vessels permanently moored along t.....

The previous venue died of a divorce - Anthology, the plush jazz supper club, closed abruptly on New Year's Day 2013 and sat dark until new owners tripled the capacity. Music Box, at 1337 India Street in San Diego's Little Italy, reopened the three-level room in September 2015. The transformation was structural: Anthology's fine-dining format held just 272; the 2015 remodel stripped the fixed seating from the 13,000-square-foot building and rebuilt it as a 705-capacity concert venue - tables on.....

On the Kettner Boulevard at the corner of Broadway in the heart of downtown San Diego, the National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum's West Coast Naval Special Warfare Museum is the West Coast outpost of the original Navy SEAL Museum founded in Fort Pierce, Florida in 1985. The 8,000-square-foot San Diego venue opened in April 2022 in a striking purpose-built building immediately adjacent to the famous Star of India and the Maritime Museum of San Diego, drawing on the city's long-standing role as the princi.....

Running for some three miles along the eastern shore of San Diego Bay between Harbor Island in the north and the cruise-ship terminal at the foot of Broadway, North Harbor Drive is one of the most photographed waterfront thoroughfares in southern California. The boulevard forms the spine of the popular Embarcadero district, a long stretch of bayfront parks, museums, ships, restaurants and the city's busiest cruise-ship terminal that has become one of the most heavily visited stretches of public .....

In the historic Old Town district about three miles north-west of downtown San Diego, Old Town San Diego State Historic Park preserves the site of the first permanent European settlement on the United States Pacific Coast. The thirteen-acre park covers the original Mexican-era town established in 1769 around the celebrated Mission San Diego de Alcala and includes a remarkable collection of original and reconstructed adobe and frame buildings dating from the Mexican period through the early Ameri.....