Mission Valley, San Diego
Mission Valley is a wide river valley trending east–west in San Diego, California, United States, through which the San Diego River flows to the Pacific Ocean.
Mission Valley is a wide river valley trending east–west in San Diego, California, United States, through which the San Diego River flows to the Pacific Ocean. For planning purposes the City of San Diego divides it into two neighborhoods: Mission Valley East and Mission Valley West.
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Worth seeing in and around Mission Valley, San Diego
10 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.
- 01San Diego Zoo
The San Diego Zoo is a zoo in San Diego, California, United States, located in Balboa Park. It began with a collection of animals left over from the 1915 Panama–California Exposition that were brought together by its founder, Harry M. Wegeforth.
3.5 km · zoo in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, United States · Wikipedia - 02University of San Diego
The University of San Diego is a private Catholic research university in San Diego, California, United States. Chartered in 1949 as the independent San Diego College for Women and San Diego University, the two institutions merged in 1972.
3.6 km · private university in San Diego, California, United States · Wikipedia - 03Snapdragon Stadium
Snapdragon Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in San Diego, California, located on the campus of San Diego State University. It is the home of the San Diego State Aztecs football team of the Pac-12 Conference, San Diego FC of Major League Soccer, and San Diego Wave FC of the National Women's Soccer League.
3.2 km · stadium at San Diego State University · Wikipedia - 04Diocese of San Diego
The Diocese of San Diego is a diocese of the Catholic Church in Southern California, United States. Its ecclesiastical territory includes all of San Diego and Imperial counties.
1.6 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia - 05San Diego Museum of Art
The San Diego Museum of Art is a fine art museum in Balboa Park in San Diego, California, that houses a broad collection with particular strength in Spanish art. It opened as the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego on February 28, 1926, and changed to its current name in 1978.
3.9 km · art museum in San Diego, California · Wikipedia - 06Timken Museum of Art
The Timken Museum of Art is a fine art museum in Balboa Park in San Diego, California, close to the San Diego Museum of Art. It was established in 1965.
3.9 km · art museum in California, United States · Wikipedia - 07Museum of Us
The Museum of Us is a museum of anthropology located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. The museum is housed in the historic landmark buildings of the California Quadrangle.
4 km · museum in San Diego · Wikipedia - 08Torero Stadium
Torero Stadium is an outdoor stadium in San Diego, California, located on the campus of the University of San Diego. Opened in 1961, it is the home of the San Diego Toreros football and men's and women's soccer teams.
3.3 km · stadium in San Diego, California, USA · Wikipedia - 09California Miramar University
California Miramar University is a private for-profit university in San Diego, California. The university offers degree programs through distance education and a combination of online and classroom delivery.
3.2 km · university · Wikipedia - 10San Diego Natural History Museum
The San Diego Natural History Museum is a museum in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1874 as the San Diego Society of Natural History.
3.9 km · museum in San Diego, California · Wikipedia
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Getting to Mission Valley, San Diego
- Airports
- San Diego (SAN), 5 km · General Abelardo L. Rodriguez (TIJ), 30 km · John Wayne Orange County (SNA), 121 km
- Stations
- Mission Valley Center, 400 m · Stadium station, 3.2 km · Fenton Parkway, 2.4 km
- Santa Ana → Mission Valley, San Diego3487 km · quickest by air, 14h 28m · $750–1,130
- Palm Springs → Mission Valley, San Diego130 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · $15–21
- San Bernardino → Mission Valley, San Diego149 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · $13–18
- 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 Mission Valley, San Diego
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 Mission Valley, San Diego. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundIf you're more adventurous, you might be able to hire a Water Taxi to get to and from waterfront hotels, shopping centers, and restaurants along the bay in Downtown and Coronado.
- Go nextCoronado is a lovely little city that lies on a peninsula just across the bay, accessible from downtown by a ferry ride (departs from the Broadway Pier and the Convention Center) or by driving just a bit south of Downtown to get to the Bay Bridge.
From Wikivoyage: San Diego/Downtown, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Mission Valley, San Diego
Mission Valley, San Diego is 6 km from San Diego, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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