Lomaland
Lomaland was a Theosophical community in Point Loma in San Diego, California, from 1900 to 1942.
Lomaland was a Theosophical community in Point Loma in San Diego, California, from 1900 to 1942. Theosophical Society leader Katherine Tingley founded it in 1900 as a school, cultural center, and residential facility for her followers. The American headquarters of the Theosophical Society Pasadena was also situated there. The facility was important to the growing city of San Diego for its cultural offerings, and it left a lasting legacy in its campus which still retains many of the unique architectural features of the original Lomaland. The residents of Lomaland also transformed their Point Loma neighborhood by planting so many trees, orchards and shrubs that the formerly barren neighborhood is now known as the "Wooded Area".
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Worth seeing in and around Lomaland
6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Point Loma Nazarene University
Point Loma Nazarene University is a private university in Point Loma in San Diego, California, United States. It was founded in 1902 as a Bible college by the Church of the Nazarene.
0 m · private Christian liberal arts college in California, US · Wikipedia - 02Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery is a federal military cemetery in San Diego, California. It is located on the grounds of the former Army coastal artillery station Fort Rosecrans and is administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
3.4 km · federal military cemetery in San Diego, California · Wikipedia - 03Ballast Point Light
Ballast Point Lighthouse was a lighthouse in San Diego, California, situated on Ballast Point, a tiny peninsula extending into San Diego Bay from Point Loma. The lighthouse was torn down in 1960; the site is now on the grounds of Naval Base Point Loma.
3.8 km · lighthouse in California, United States · Wikipedia - 04Ocean Beach Pier
Ocean Beach is a beachfront neighborhood in San Diego, California.
3.4 km · fishing pier in San Diego, California, United States · Wikipedia - 05Rosecroft
Rosecroft is a historic estate and gardens in the Point Loma neighborhood of San Diego, California. It was built in 1912 by architect Emmor Brooke Weaver for wealthy heiress Marion James Robinson, née Marion James Duncan, and her husband Alfred D. Robinson, a retired medical instrument merchant.
2.2 km · historic house in San Diego, California · Wikipedia - 06USS Bennington Monument
The USS Bennington Monument is a 60-foot granite obelisk in the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Point Loma, San Diego, California, United States. It serves as a memorial to the crew of the USS Bennington, a gunboat of the United States Navy, whose boiler exploded on the morning of 21 July 1905, in San Diego Bay.
3.1 km · naval memorial at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, California · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lomaland
- Airports
- San Diego (SAN), 6 km · General Abelardo L. Rodriguez (TIJ), 33 km · John Wayne Orange County (SNA), 121 km
- Santa Ana → Lomaland2609 km · quickest by air, 13h 34m · $650–970
- Palm Springs → Lomaland140 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · $16–23
- Long Beach → Lomaland146 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · $14–19
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Lomaland
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lomaland. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe Coronado Ferry, a pedestrian/bicycle ferry, launches from the Broadway Pier and the Convention Center in Downtown San Diego to the Ferry Landing Marketplace in Coronado.
- Get aroundThe MTS runs a small circulator bus line, Route 904, from the ferry landing down past Hotel del Coronado.
- Go nextDowntown San Diego is a short ferry ride or drive across the bridge and offers plenty of sights, not to mention the sights just beyond in Balboa Park or Old Town.
From Wikivoyage: Coronado (California), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Lomaland is 8 km from San Diego, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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