Torrey Pines, San Diego

Worth seeing in and around Torrey Pines, 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.

1. 01
   University of California, San Diego

   The University of California, San Diego is a public land-grant research university in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States. Established in 1960, it is the southernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California.

   1.5 km · public university in La Jolla, California, United States · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Salk Institute for Biological Studies

   The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is a scientific research institute in the La Jolla community of San Diego, California. The independent, non-profit institute was founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk, the developer of the polio vaccine; among the founding consultants were Jacob Bronowski and Francis Crick.

   700 m · life sciences research institute · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Geisel Library

   Geisel Library is the main library building of the University of California, San Diego. It is named in honor of Audrey and Theodor Seuss Geisel, the latter of whom is better known as children's author Dr.

   1.2 km · main library building at University of California, San Diego · Wikipedia
4. 04
   San Diego California Temple

   The San Diego California Temple is the 45th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, located in San Diego, California, United States. It was the third to be built in California, following the Los Angeles and Oakland temples.

   3 km · Temple of the LDS Church · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve

   Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve is a coastal state park in San Diego, California. The reserve is one of the wildest stretches of land on the Southern California coast, covering 2,000 acres.

   3.5 km · state park in San Diego, California, USA · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Old Scripps Building

   The George H. Scripps Memorial Marine Biological Laboratory, known as the Old Scripps Building, is a historic research facility on the campus of the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California. Built in 1909-10, it is the oldest oceanographic research building in continuous use in the United States and the historic center of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

   3.2 km · building in San Diego, California, United States · Wikipedia
7. 07
   La Jolla Shores

   La Jolla Shores, with its northern part Scripps Beach, is a beach and vacation/residential community of the same name in the community of La Jolla in San Diego, California, United States. The La Jolla Shores business district is a mixed-use village encircling Laureate Park on Avenida de la Playa in the village of La Jolla Shores.

   3.8 km · beach in La Jolla, San Diego, California · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Birch Aquarium

   Birch Aquarium is a public aquarium in La Jolla, a community of San Diego, California. It serves as the public outreach center for Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, with over half a million people visiting the aquarium each year.

   3 km · public aquarium in San Diego, California · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Earl Warren College

   Earl Warren College is one of eight undergraduate residential colleges at the University of California, San Diego. Warren College has one of the largest student populations at UC San Diego, with over 4,500 undergraduate students, comprising about one seventh of the student population.

   1.2 km · residential college at the University of California San Diego · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Eleanor Roosevelt College

    The Eleanor Roosevelt College is an undergraduate residential college at the University of California, San Diego. While ERC has students of all majors, the college emphasizes international understanding in its co-curricular programming and general education requirements, requiring students to complete the Making of the Modern World history and writing program, a regional specialization, and demonstrate basic proficiency in a foreign language.

    800 m · residential college at the University of California San Diego · Wikipedia

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Getting to Torrey Pines, San Diego

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San Diego (SAN), 18 km · General Abelardo L. Rodriguez (TIJ), 46 km · John Wayne Orange County (SNA), 105 km

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Torrey Pines Gliderport, 700 m · UTC Transit Center, 3.5 km · VA Medical Center, 2.2 km

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