Balboa Park

For our best kept secret San Diego travel info, you never miss Balboa Park. Balboa Park is located in San Diego, United States and it is the great urban cultural park. The name of this park had its origin from Spanish explorer. The whole park got fully constructed in 1910. You can enjoy watching 13 museums and one of the best cultural values over here. In 1977 this park was declared as National Historic Landmark which is now been administered by Recreation departments.

History:

The name of a Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa, who discovered the Pacific Ocean, has been kept for this park. The architecture and construction was completed during 1910 whereas it was originally on 1915 the park had the original Spanish style. Balboa Park shined with the Spanish architecture and buildings. The influence of Spanish Renaissance under both Gothic and Moorish style was perfect. Some of the styles of rococo and baroque were also reflected in the buildings.

Attractions:

You will be puzzled on identifying what style exactly they have followed in Balboa Park architecture. There are many attractive places which you can find inside the park. Most attractions are gathered by wide promenade which is located at the center of the park and gathers the center of attraction too. This is called as El Prado.

You can find rich, electric, ornamental mixture of both Latin American and Spanish Architecture everywhere. You can find many attractive museums here like San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Model Railroad Museum, Museum of photographic Arts, San Diego Museum of man, Reflection pond, Timken Museum of art, Latticed Botanical Building, Bea Evenson Fountain, Reuben H. Fleet science center and much more. These entire places draw a great tourist attraction.

There are many wonderful gardens in Balboa Park which are very attractive and gather tourist to large amount. The gardens are namely Japanese friendship garden, Zoro Garden, Cactus Garden, Alcazar Garden, Inez Grant Parker Memorial Rose Garden and Pam Canyon Garden etc. You may not want to come out of this place because of its great beauty.

There are many cottages and clubs where you can spend wonderful time with family and friends. A great destination for San Diego family travel indeed. It is also said that Balboa Park next to numerous landmarks of Downtown San Diego which includes South Park, Hillcrest, Golden Hill and North Park.

Balboa Park Address
1549 El Prado
San Diego, CA 92101

Contact:
Tel: (619) 239-0512
Email: N/A

Balboa Park Hours:
Balboa Park grounds: open daily 24 hours
Visitors Center: open daily 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Ticket Information for the Balboa Park:
The admission prices vary by institution.
Admittance to the Park: Free

Website: http://www.balboapark.org