RECREATION 



San Diego offers exceptionally varied and extensive natural 

 advantages for recreation, with its land-locked harbor, beaches, 

 back country, and near-by mountains. The climate is temperate 

 throughout the year and there is a low rainfall ; these two factors 

 especially making for an ideal out-of-door country. In addition, 

 the city has most unique opportunities for developing public re- 

 creational facilities through its ownership of large tracts of 

 pueblo lands adjoining the settled portions of the city. Balboa 

 Park, the city's main public park, com.prising 1400 acres, and 

 reached in a fifteen minute walk from the down town section of 

 the city, offers splendid possibilities for recreational develop- 

 ment. 



The city has begun to realize upon these opportunities through 

 its Municipal Board of Playground Commissioners and Play- 

 ground Association. This commission already has in operation, 

 the Rose Park Playground, located on an entire city block at 

 Eleventh and I streets, with an area of one and two-fifths acres. 

 The grounds are well equipped with play apparatus and super- 



Adults as Well as Children Need Public Recreation Places. Mexicans Play- 

 ing Game Resembling Quoits on Vacant Lot in Crowded Section of City. 



vised by men and women directors. They are open every after- 

 noon and evening with a daily attendance of about 160. Boys' 

 and girls' clubs meet regularly here, with the organization of 

 boy scouts and camp fire girls as special features. In addition, 

 the Playground Commission has been given 50 acres in Balboa 



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