Embarcadero Marina Park South, Park in downtown San Diego, United States
Embarcadero Marina Park South is a waterfront park in downtown San Diego, United States, stretching onto the edge of San Diego Bay. It features wide grassy lawns with gentle slopes, eucalyptus and coral trees, winding paths, a fishing pier, a basketball court, and several wooden gazebos and pergolas for shade.
The land was created in the late 1970s by dredging the bay and filling the water, opening new ground for public use. Commissioner Bernice Leyton and landscape architect Joseph Yamada shaped this expansion into a simple modern waterfront space.
The park sits beside the San Diego Convention Center in the Marina district, and its name comes from the Spanish embarcadero, a landing place for boats. Visitors walk the paths to watch fishing boats and yachts move across San Diego Bay, with the convention center's sails and towers behind them.
The park sits beside the San Diego Convention Center in the Marina district, about 1.3 km from downtown San Diego, on flat ground roughly 2 metres above sea level. The paved paths are the easiest way to cross the lawns, and the waterfront edge borders San Diego Bay. Rain is rare, with about 217 mm falling in a year, so the paths dry quickly.
The fishing pier is shaped like a T, letting anglers cast into deep water on both sides at once. Along the shoreline, large stacked rocks break the waves so well that small yachts dock almost directly beside the lawn.
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