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View of the park and gorge from the visitors center A photograph of Cowles Mountain, facing east, taken on the trail to Pyles Peak. Mission Trails Regional Park is a 7,220-acre (29.2 km 2) open space preserve within the city of San Diego, California, established in 1974. It is the sixth-largest municipally owned park in the United States, and ...
The Old Mission Dam is a historic water impoundment structure in Mission Trails Regional Park in San Diego, California.It was built about 1803 to impound the San Diego River to provide water for irrigation of the fields associated with the Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first Spanish mission in what is now The State of California.
The entire mountain, with marked trails, is a protected area within Mission Trails Regional Park, which opened in 1972. Trails. The main trail to the summit is a popular hiking destination taking hundreds of people per day to a 360-degree panorama of San Diego County. The hike to the top is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and an elevation change of ...
State Route 52 State Route 52 highlighted in red Route information Maintained by Caltrans Length 17.222 mi (27.716 km) Existed 1964–present Tourist routes SR 52 through Mission Trails Regional Park Major junctions West end I-5 in San Diego Major intersections I-805 in San Diego SR 163 in San Diego I-15 in San Diego SR 125 in Santee East end SR 67 in Santee Location Country United States ...
Tierrasanta, Spanish for "holy land," or "holy ground", is a community within the city of San Diego, California. The symbol of Tierrasanta is an encircled Conquistador cross, similar to one atop Montserrat (mountain) near Barcelona, Spain, though it no longer holds any religious meaning. The community is referred to as "The Island in the Hills ...
The San Diego River is a river in San Diego County, California. It originates in the Cuyamaca Mountains northwest of the town of Julian, then flows to the southwest until it reaches the El Capitan Reservoir, the second-largest reservoir in the river's watershed at 112,800 acre-feet (139,100,000 m 3 ). Below El Capitan Dam, the river runs west ...
Fortuna Mountain, also known as North Fortuna Mountain, is a 1,293-foot (394 m) mountain located in Mission Trails Regional Park in San Diego, California. 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 ...
The largest city park in the state is Mission Trails Regional Park in San Diego at 5,800 acres (23 km 2), although there are several county and regional parks that are larger. Total land owned by municipal agencies is roughly 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km 2) acres.