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Mission Trails Regional Park. Coordinates: 32.830°N 117.055°W. 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 in San Diego, California. The park was established in 1974.
Trail. Cowles Mountain (/koʊlz/, /kaʊlz/ {a proscribed pronunciation}; properly KOHLZ, commonly KOWLZ) is a prominent mountain located in the San Carlos neighborhood, within the city limits of San Diego. The 1,593-foot (486 m) summit is the highest point of the city of San Diego. It is protected within Mission Trails Regional Park .
Old Mission Dam is a historic water impoundment structure in Mission Trails Regional Park in San Diego, California. It was built in 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 US state of California.
It is bounded on the north by the Mount Soledad (52) Freeway and the sprawling southern fields of MCAS Miramar; on the east by the 8,000-acre (32 km 2) Mission Trails Regional Park, which has numerous hiking and mountain biking trails; on the west by slopes overlooking the wide Interstate 15 corridor running from Friars Road to Route 52, and on ...
Easiest route. Trail class 1. 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 ...
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.
The community is the gateway to Mission Trails Regional Park, established in 1974. Grantville was the focus of the Grantville Redevelopment Project Area, established by the city of San Diego in 2005. However, all redevelopment areas were dissolved in 2012 by the state of California.
Coordinates. 32°50′29″N 117°01′58″W. / 32.84139°N 117.03278°W / 32.84139; -117.03278. Type. Artificial lake. Kumeyaay Lake is a lake in San Diego, California. It is situated in the Mission Trails Regional Park. [ 1] Formerly a gravel pit, its habitat includes riparian and chaparral plants. [ 2][ 3]