Balboa Park Is More Than the San Diego Zoo

I was looking for a place to walk for a few hours and I found Balboa Park. All I knew about it was it is where you enter the famed San Diego Zoo, but what I found was so much more intriguing. The park has 17 museums, multiple performing arts venues, various themed gardens, shopping, restaurants, street vendors, and historical and cultural attractions. It is easily worth spending an entire day exploring all the park has to offer. You hear all the time about the zoo and sadly, it overshadows the park, so many visitors don’t plan to spend the time they should or even know about it. The only reason I found the park was diligent searching for trails and places to walk. Otherwise, I would have thought it was just the entrance to the zoo and never visited. History Balboa Park is one of the oldest parks in the United States. It was reserved in 1835 and encompassed 1,200-acres of history and cultural spaces. Many buildings and spaces are landmarks from the 1915–16 Panama–California Exposition and 1935–36 California Pacific International Exposition. The park and many of the buildings are National Historic Landmarks and the park is on the […]

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