Point Loma, San Diego
Point Loma is a seaside community in San Diego, California, United States.
Point Loma is a seaside community in San Diego, California, United States. Geographically it is a hilly peninsula that is bordered on the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, the east by San Diego Bay and Old Town, and the north by the San Diego River. Together with the Silver Strand/Coronado peninsula, the Point Loma peninsula defines San Diego Bay and separates it from the Pacific Ocean. The term "Point Loma" is used to describe both the neighborhood and the peninsula.
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Worth seeing in and around Point Loma, San Diego
7 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.
- 01Cabrillo National Monument
Cabrillo National Monument is a U.S. national monument at the southern tip of the Point Loma peninsula in San Diego, California. It commemorates the landing of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo at San Diego Bay on September 28, 1542.
500 m · National Monument of the United States and historic district · Wikipedia - 02Old Point Loma lighthouse
The original Point Loma Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse located on the Point Loma peninsula at the mouth of San Diego Bay in San Diego, California. It is situated on half an acre of land designated Cabrillo National Monument.
200 m · lighthouse in California, United States · Wikipedia - 03New Point Loma Lighthouse
The New Point Loma Lighthouse is a lighthouse at the southern tip of the Point Loma peninsula in San Diego, California.
500 m · lighthouse in California, United States · Wikipedia - 04Fort 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.
1.9 km · federal military cemetery in San Diego, California · Wikipedia - 05Ballast 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.
2 km · lighthouse in California, United States · Wikipedia - 06Rosecroft
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.
3.1 km · historic house in San Diego, California · Wikipedia - 07USS 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.
2.2 km · naval memorial at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, California · Wikipedia
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Getting to Point Loma, San Diego
- Airports
- San Diego (SAN), 9 km · General Abelardo L. Rodriguez (TIJ), 29 km · John Wayne Orange County (SNA), 126 km
- Santa Ana → Point Loma, San Diego3492 km · quickest by air, 14h 28m · $750–1,130
- Palm Springs → Point Loma, San Diego139 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · $16–22
- Long Beach → Point Loma, San Diego145 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · $14–19
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Point Loma, 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 Point Loma, San Diego. 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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Next door to Point Loma, San Diego
Point Loma, San Diego is 9 km from San Diego, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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