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The best way to start your time in Balboa Park is with a stop at the Balboa Park Visitors Center. Located across from The Prado Restaurant in the House of Hospitality, the Visitors Center has the most current and comprehensive information about the Park’s activities and attractions.
ATTRACTIONS
MUSEUMS: Centro Cultural de la Raza, Marston House, Mingei International Museum, Museum of Photographic Arts, Reuben H Fleet Science Center, San Diego Air & Space Museum, San Diego Art Institute (SDAI), San Diego Automotive Museum, San Diego Hall of Champions, San Diego History Center, San Diego Model Railroad Museum, San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego Natural History Museum, The San Diego Museum of Art, Timken Museum of Art, Veterans Museum at Balboa Park, WorldBeat Center.
PERFORMING ARTS: Bon Temps Social Club, Civic Dance Arts, Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater, San Diego Civic Youth Ballet, San Diego Junior Theatre, San Diego Youth Symphony, Spreckels Organ Pavilion, Starlight Theatre and Starlight Bowl, The Old Globe.
GARDENS: 1935 (Old) Cactus Garden, Alcazar Garden, Australian Garden, Botanical Building, California Native Plant Garden, Casa del Rey Moro Garden, Children's Ethnobotany Garden, Desert Garden, Florida Canyon Native Plant Preserve, Japanese Friendship Garden, Marston House Garden, Palm Canyon, Rose Garden, San Diego Botanical Garden Foundation, San Diego Floral Association, San Diego Zoo Botanical Collection, Trees for Health Garden, Veterans Memorial Garden, Zoro Garden.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS: Balboa Park Carousel, Balboa Park Miniature Railroad, Balboa Park Visitors Center, House of Pacific Relations Int'l Cottages, Photographic Arts Building, San Diego Zoo, Sefton Plaza, Spanish Village Art Center, United Nations Building.
GETTING THERE
Bus:
Balboa Park is on the #7 bus line, which runs between downtown San Diego and east San Diego and La Mesa (along University).
Trolley:
Take any trolley into downtown San Diego. Get off at the City College stop (12th Ave. and C St.) Transfer to the outbound #7 bus just around the corner at 11th and C.
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