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.....

Anchored by a classic wooden roller coaster on the sand at Mission Beach, Belmont Park is San Diego's long-running seaside amusement park, an old-fashioned mix of rides, arcade games, shops and beachfront restaurants that opened on 4 July 1925. Originally developed by the sugar magnate John D. Spreckels as part of an effort to draw San Diegans across the bay to his new Mission Bay neighbourhood, the park has weathered closures, redevelopments and the decline of seaside amusement parks across the.....

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.....

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 .....

On the southern shore of Mission Bay about ten miles north-west of downtown San Diego, SeaWorld San Diego is the original location of the international SeaWorld marine-life theme park chain and one of the most heavily visited theme parks in southern California. The 190-acre park opened in March 1964 as the brainchild of four University of California Los Angeles graduates who envisioned a marine-themed park combining a working oceanarium with a family-friendly theme park, with the original park c.....

On the rugged Pacific shoreline of the Point Loma peninsula about six miles west of downtown San Diego, Sunset Cliffs Natural Park preserves nearly a mile and a half of dramatically eroded sandstone cliffs along one of the most picturesque stretches of coastline in southern California. The 68-acre park was established in 1983 and is managed by the San Diego Parks and Recreation Department, with the surrounding Sunset Cliffs Boulevard providing one of the most scenic coastal drives in the city. .....