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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. The park was established in 1974. It is the sixth-largest municipally owned park in the United States, and the largest in California.
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 Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first Spanish mission in what is now the US state of California.
Mission Trails Regional Park, San Diego County, California, California Coordinates 32°50′29″N 117°01′58″W / 32.84139°N 117.03278°W / 32.84139; -117
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.
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 about 950 feet (290 m).
In October 2013, the Mission Reach Ecosystem Restoration and Recreation project was completed, adding 15 miles of hiking, biking, and paddling trails to the San Antonio Missions. [8] This project connects Mission Concepcion, Mission San Jose, Mission San Juan, and Mission Espada to the San Antonio Riverwalk, through a series of park portals.
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 ...
The freeway ascends to Mission Trails Pass, north of the 1,230-foot (370 m) summit of Fortuna Mountain. [5] The mountain is part of the Peninsular Range; the highway cuts through Eocene rocks estimated to be 50 million years old and marine fossils. The road on the eastern side of the mountain is carved out of "igneous granitic rocks" that are ...