Mission Point Park

Very nice park in San Diego near the beginning (or end) of Mission Bay. There is a large playground for children along with areas to fish. It is a very scenic and relaxed park on weekdays.

Great little park hidden way near the entrance to Mission Bay. It has a good size parking lot, play area for the kids, and a bathroom. You see a lot of boats coming and going from the bay here. Good area for a picnic or family event. It is a little out of the way so how busy it gets depends on how may people who up that day.

a great place to do some snorkeling and get their early on the weekends for some parking

San Diego County Craft Brewery Road Trip Week!
When the beer nerd friend I homebrew with (& fellow Unilocal Elite) planned a week vacation down in San Diego with the wife & kids, he asked if I might want to take that same week off & go down there too. Hmmm, a whole week of drinking beer at craft breweries all over San Diego County? Oh Hell yeah!
& over the course of that week, I surely did drink an ocean of beer. That was the plan, after all. Packing on pounds of body fat from all those carbs, however, was not the plan. So I got out & ran a few miles every single day. Fortunately, San Diego has no shortage of beautiful places for a little bit of outdoor exercise.
Yes, I’m copy/​pasting from my review for Ocean Front Walk. That’s because this review of Mission Point Park is essentially the 2^nd part of that review. There’s numerous access points to Ocean Front Walk, but parking can be tough. I most easily found parking by going down to the end of Mission Blvd & then hooking left into this park.
The parking lot for Mission Point Park is fairly large. On a weekday, there where plenty of open spaces the whole time I was out here. On a weekend day, the parking lot did fill up completely by late morning/​early afternoon. For a park, Mission Point Park is small but it’s beautifully surrounded on 3 sides by water.
It’s also a great looking little park with a playground/​sandlot area, beach access & restrooms. For me, it was the ideal start/​end point for runs up & down Ocean Front Walk. From the farthest most parking space, over to the South end of Ocean Front Walk, up to Crystal Pier & then all the way back is exactly 6 miles.
It was a nice circuit to run with easy landmarks. & Mission Point Park was both a scenic & convenient landmark for that circuit. 6 miles from park to pier & back, simple but effective. Whenever I’m in SD & looking for a straightforward 6 mile run, I’m sure I’ll be out here running this circuit again.