San Diego, CA
Try This Bike Trail: Balboa Parks’ Florida Canyon | San Diego Magazine
On Florida Drive, which bisects Balboa Park, but not extending beyond Park Boulevard on the west side and Pershing Drive on the east, there is a spider web of trails in Florida Canyon. If you’re willing to explore it, you can connect upwards of seven miles of trails, depending on how you link them up. Since there’s no set route, use any available stretch of dirt pathway to get in around an hour of fairly strenuous riding.
Park in the parking lots by the Morley Field baseball and softball fields. To start, ride in the direction of the tennis courts and on toward the dog park, skirting its edge and diving into the trail on the far left corner, which is the southwest side of the dog area. The immediate cobble-filled downhill will get you loosened up a bit.
Stay straight, never making any hard turns. The trail will twist and turn as you pass turnoffs, but stay the course. If you do, about a mile later you will end up down at the intersection of Pershing Dr., 26th St., and Florida Drive. Staying on the dirt, look to your left and note the single track that climbs up alongside Pershing Dr. Take it. Enjoy the wildflowers if they’re poppin’.
It is about a half-mile climb up a tight and fairly narrow single track. Back down at the three-way intersection, go right, back in the direction that you came. As you work your way back through, at about the half-mile mark, turn left and cross over Florida Dr. The crossover occurs slightly beyond Zoo Place ahead of the trail entrance. It’s a little past Zoo Place, going north, on the west side.
Again, dive in and get ready for cobbles. Follow the trail as it bends to the right. At this point, there is a main trail going north, but you’ll see other trails jumping off as you go. I tend to stay low and keep close to the stream. When I reach the north end, crossing over Morley Field Drive, I slowly pedal the Little Eden Trail. It’s very short but oh so beautiful with the big trees and shady canopies.
At this point, turn around and cross back over Morley Field Drive. Then go up the steep incline/hill to your right. Up top, it will come to a T intersection, at which point, go left. From here, go across the top.
From there, it’s a free-for-all as to what to do next. You can double up again and ride what you rode earlier. One typical route I do is after crossing Florida Drive at Zoo Place, I go north on the trail and take the immediate right-hand trail that climbs up and up. It’s a switchback that can be grueling, especially on a single-speed.
Up top, turn right and ride the dirt road, heading south. On a clear day, you can see the Coronado Bridge and distant Coronado Islands in Mexican waters. It’s a stunning view when there’s no marine layer or haze. From there, look around and wander your way back to wherever you started. There are other trails up top that drop down. You can’t really get lost.
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Local leaders and bike advocates joined SANDAG Thursday to break ground on a brand new bikeway in San Diego.
The group gathered at the Jackie Robinson Family YMCA around 10 a.m. to celebrate the start of construction for what’s been dubbed the Imperial Avenue Bikeway.
The 3.5-mile path, according to SANDAG, will help create safer streets for people who walk, bike, drive and take transit through the southeastern area of the city limits.
With the construction will come improvements to Imperial Avenue between 17th Street and 47th Street. This is expected to enhance connectivity for people of all ages and abilities.
The Imperial Avenue Bikeway is part of the Regional Bike Plan Early Action Program, an initiative approved by the SANDAG Board of Directors in 2013. The $25 million project is funded by a combination of state and local funds.
(Photo Credit: University of San Diego / Alex McKeon)
SAN DIEGO – Head coach Greg LaPorte and the University of San Diego women’s soccer program have announced the addition of two new Toreros, who joined the active roster this spring.
Joining the Toreros are Emma Elias (San Diego, Calif./Mater Dei Catholic HS) and Jenna Rubidoux (San Diego, Calif./Air Force).
EMMA ELIAS
Position: Midfield
Hometown/High School: San Diego, Calif./Mater Dei Catholic HS
Club: Rebels SC
Career Highlights:
- Elias was a varsity starter for Mater Dei Catholic for all four seasons of high school.
- During her freshman season, Mater Dei went undefeated and took home their league title.
- Her senior season of high school was cut short due to a knee injury but recovered to join the Toreros this spring.
JENNA RUBIDOUX
Position: Midfield
Hometown/High School: San Diego, Calif./Christian HS
Previous Team: Air Force
Career Highlights:
- Spent her first two collegiate seasons at Air Force, where she appeared in 35 games and made 26 starts.
- Tallied four goals for eight points over two seasons, including a career-high three goals in 2022.
- Recorded 2,354 minutes over the 2021 and 2022 seasons and will enter San Diego as a second semester junior.
- Scored Air Force’s game-winning goal as a freshman in a 2021, 1-0 win over Navy.
- Played her club soccer locally for Albion SC.
Elias and Rubidoux join Katie Bessemer (Sacramento State), Aliya Garrett (Salt Lake CC), Elle Soleau (San Francisco/Boise State) and Natalie Yoo (Texas A&M/Coastal Carolina) as newcomers for the 2024 season.
San Diego, CA
Two giant pandas en route from China — first in over 20 years — as US’s bear population diminishes
Finally, some bamboo-tiful news.
Two giant pandas are en route from China to the San Diego Zoo — rescuing the US from the creeping possibility of becoming panda-less.
Yun Chuan, a 5-year-old male, and Xin Bao, a 3-year-old female, were sent off in a heartwarming farewell ceremony in Sichuan Wednesday before being loaded onto a California-bound airplane.
“This farewell celebrates their journey and underscores a collaboration between the United States and China on vital conservation efforts,” Paul Baribault, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance president, said in a statement.
“Our long-standing partnership with China Wildlife Conservation Association has been instrumental in advancing giant panda conservation, and we look forward to continuing our work together to ensure the survival and thriving of this iconic species.”
The black-and-white pair are the first new giant pandas to arrive in the country in more than two decades.
Although they’ll be in the US soon enough, Yun Chuan and Xin Bao, who are on loan for 10 years, will likely not be on view to the zoo visitors for several more weeks, officials warned.
Their arrival also marks a step forward for relations between China and the US, the latter of which has sent its pandas back in droves in the last few years as loan agreements have lapsed and tensions between the nations have mounted.
The US’s only remaining pandas — Atlanta’s beloved Lun Lun and Yang Yang and their twin offspring — are due back to their homeland later this year after more than two decades in America.
Giant pandas at the National Zoo in Washington, DC and the Memphis Zoo were shipped back to China last year.
Yun Chuan and Xin Bao will also be the first giant pandas at the San Diego Zoo since 2019 — and one of the bears has a family history at the refuge.
Yun Chuan’s mother, Zhen Zhen, was born at the San Diego Zoo in 2007 to parents Bai Yun and Gao Gao. The new zoo guest is described by officials as a mild-mannered boy.
Xin Bao is described as “a gentle and witty introvert with a sweet round face and big ears.”
The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has a nearly 30-year partnership with leading conservation institutions in China focused on protecting and recovering giant pandas and the bamboo forests they depend on.
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