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Travelers looking for a variety of outdoor activities, culture, good food, and beautiful, temperate weather need look no further than San Diego. Here are our choices for the top 50 things to do in the city.

1. Explore the San Diego Zoo.
2. Listen to the world’s largest pipe organ at Balboa Park.
3. Have high tee at the Hotel Del Coronado Hotel.
4. Relive San Diego’s past with a stroll in the Gaslamp Quarter.
5. See Shamu perform at SeaWorld.
6. Take the trolley to Tijuana.
7. Watch a Padres game at the city’s new ballpark, PETCO Field.
8. Have an authentic Mexican meal in San Diego’s Old Town.
9. See how the beautiful people live in La Jolla.
10. Explore the Prado, the museum row in the middle of Balboa Park.
11. Enjoy cocktails and the view atop Bertrands at Mr. A’s
12. Take a cruise on Mission bay aboard the Bahia Belle sternwheeler.
13. Be a kid for a day at LegoLand.
14. Take a horse-drawn carriage ride through downtown.
15. Learn about ocean creatures at the Birch Aquarium.
16. Cool off at Knott’s Soak City.
17. Take a step-on tour of the city sights in a double-decker bus.
18. Enjoy one of the area’s more than 70 miles of white sand beaches.
19. Tour the Spanish Mission.
20. Go shopping by the harbor at Seaport Village.
21. Learn about San Diego’s sea-faring past at the Maritime Museum.
22. Visit Villa Montezuma, one of the city’s Victorian “painted ladies.”
23. See the flower display at Carlsbad Flower Fields.
24. Tour the ARCO Olympic Training Center.
25. Watch for whales, from December through May.
26. Go to the track at Del Mar.
27. Try your luck at the Barona Resort and Casino, just east of town.
28. Ride the rides at Belmont Park Amusement Park.
29. Visit the Old Point Loma Lighthouse at the Cabrillo National Monument.
30. Shop for bargains at Carlsbad Premium Outlets.
31. Learn about native southern California flora and fauna at the Chula Vista Nature Center.
32. Take a surfing lesson at the Coronado Surfing Academy.
33. Go back to the 50’s at the Corvette Diner.
34. Visit Jillian, San Diego’s historic “Gold Rush” town.
35. Greet the sea lions at La Jolla Cove.
36. Go fishing at Miramar Reservoir.
37. Picnic at Mission Bay Park.
38. Take an old-fashioned train ride at the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum.
39. Ride the ferry between downtown San Diego and Coronado.
40. Attend a performance of the San Diego Opera, one of the best opera companies in the United States.
41. Hear the San Diego Symphony at Copley Symphony Hall.
42. Take in a Chargers football game.
43. Enjoy theater under the stars at the Starlight Amphitheater.
44. See a Shakespeare play at the Old Globe Theater in Balboa Park.
45. Play golf at Torrey Pines.
46. Explore the USS Midway, an authentic Navy aircraft carrier.
47. Go luxury shopping at Horton Plaza downtown.
48. Tour Whaley House, said to be the most haunted house in the United States.
49. Learn about the environment, physics, and other disciplines at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center.
50. Try a fish taco at Rubio’s.

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