Balboa Park
Balboa Park is a park in San Diego County, Southern California, California. Balboa Park is situated nearby to the locality Inspiration Point North, San Diego, as well as near the area Morley Field.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include San Diego Natural History Museum and Bea Evenson Fountain.
San Diego Natural History Museum
Museum
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The San Diego Natural History Museum is a museum in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1874 as the San Diego Society of Natural History.
Bea Evenson Fountain
Fountain
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Bea Evenson Fountain is an outdoor fountain in San Diego's Balboa Park, in the U.S. state of California. Designed by noted modernist architect Homer Delawie, the fountain honors Bea Evenson, the founding president of the park's Committee of 100, organized in the late 1960s to save or reconstruct the buildings of the Panama–California Exposition of 1915.
Fleet Science Center
Museum
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The Fleet Science Center is a science museum and planetarium in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. Established in 1973, it was the first science museum to combine interactive science exhibits with a planetarium and an IMAX Dome theater, setting the standard that most major science museums follow today.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Downtown San Diego and Bankers Hill.
Downtown San Diego
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Downtown San Diego is the thriving central business district of San Diego. A heavily gentrified area with plenty of tourist amenities, Downtown serves as a hub of business and entertainment, with plenty of restaurants, shops, and nightlife to take in, as well as a few attractions, including several museums and the home of the San Diego Padres baseball team.
Bankers Hill
Suburb
Bankers Hill is a long-established uptown neighborhood near Balboa Park in San Diego, California. The area acquired the name "Bankers Hill" because of its reputation as a home for the affluent.
Cortez Hill
Quarter
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Cortez Hill is a neighborhood in the northeast part of downtown San Diego, California.
Balboa Park
- Type: Park
- Also known as: “San Diego City Park”
- Location: San Diego County, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.73172° or 32° 43′ 54″ northLongitude
-117.14698° or 117° 8′ 49″ westElevation
295 feet (90 metres)Open location code
8544PVJ3+M6GeoNames ID
5325713
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