San Diego - Balboa Park

Most of San Diego's museums are to be found on this 1,412acre/565hectare site. It is therefore advisable to park your car in the big parking lot in front of the zoo and visit the places of interest on foot. The time required to see the park depends on where your interests lie. Experience suggests setting aside one full day for the museums and another for the remaining sites. Apart from a few modern buildings, most of those on Balboa Park were erected for the Panama California Exhibition of 1915/1916, and are therefore mainly in the Spanish-Mexican style.