For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's San Diego, California Travel Guide has been your connection to San Diego's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
San Diego Outdoor Recreation
While in San Diego, the coastline offers dozens of recreation opportunities with glorious beaches that sparkle and shine and invite sunbathers and swimmers to enjoy the sand and water. The City’s reservoirs provide a variety of outdoors activities, such as boating, fishing, and hiking. El Capitan reservoir is the place to bring your jet ski, and Lake Hodges’ has the perfect setting to Windsurf. With bed and breakfasts steps away from the ocean and perched atop hillsides overlooking the water, San Diego and the surrounding area delight bed and breakfast travelers with a lovely assortment of coastal bed and to choose from.
Mission Trails Regional Park encompasses over 5,000 acres of recreation areas for hiking and camping, and provides guided tours. While Mission Bay Park is the largest man-made aquatic park in the country and offers walking and jogging trail, playgrounds, picnicking, and cook-out areas, and remains a popular spot for sailing model yachts or flying kites. Stay at a private guest cottage bed and breakfast near Mission Bay and take full advantage of the recreational opportunities.
For those who enjoy the green, the City of San Diego Park & Recreational Department operates three municipal golf courses: Torrey Pines, Balboa Park and the Mission Bay Golf Course and Practice Center. Savor a delicious gourmet breakfast at your San Diego bed and breakfast and hit the links with a full stomach and enjoy the glistening greens.
