Families fit into San Diego’s cheerful profile like feet into flip-flops. This coastal city’s perennial sunshine, sandy beaches, and kid-friendly attractions make it easy for adults to trade workday stress for an endless-summer attitude — even in December. The agreeable climate engenders a laid-back, welcoming aura that pervades from mountain town to beachside community.
And this is truly a year-round destination: Visit in fall and winter to get a healthy dose of vitamin D on beaches offering plenty of elbow room. Come in spring for the spectacular wildflower show in the Anza-Borrego Desert. Early summer sees the city caressed by a cool marine breeze before heating up for events such as the San Diego County Fair, the World Championship Over-The-Line beach softball tournament, and the US Open Sandcastle Competition.
America’s Finest City is not just one long strip of beach, however. Mountains border the county’s eastern reaches before dropping into a vast desert valley; in between lie scores of diverse neighborhoods that blanket the region’s tawny hills. San Diego is a military municipality, a college town, a center of Mexican-American culture; wholesome and yet tolerant of its more counter-cultural facets. And it is a city on the cutting edge of urban renewal, having taken a shambling downtown and reincarnated it as a vibrant destination for entertainment, dining, shopping, and strolling. No visiting groups should miss the Victorian charm of the Gaslamp Quarter, Horton Plaza’s colorful complex of shops and cinemas, and the revitalized areas surrounding the city’s architecturally distinct convention center and PETCO Park, new home of the San Diego Padres.
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