Deer Park Monastery

The Rincon Big Four is a famous skate spot in Escondido, California, USA that has shown up numerous times in skateboard media outlets, such as videos and magazines. It is located at Rincon Middle School, which has been a popular landmark for skateboarding for over a decade. In 1997, Jamie Thomas found a newly built bleacher set for shaded basketball.

Jesmond Dene is an unincorporated community neighboring Escondido in San Diego County, California. It lies just east of Interstate 15 north of Escondido and has a ZIP Code of 92026 (as assigned to Escondido). The community is inside area code 760. It was named after the Jesmond Dene park in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Calvin Christian School is a private Christian school in Escondido, California. It consists of a preschool, elementary school, junior high, and high school.

Dixon Reservoir, also known as Dixon Lake, is a small man-made reservoir in the north of Escondido, California. It has been regularly noted to produce the largest kind of largemouth bass in the world. Dixon Lake is considered a popular place for picnics, camping, and fishing. The State of California Department of Fish and Wildlife granted the lake an Aquaculture Permit; fishing licenses are no longer required. The city stocks different types of fish throughout the year, including bass, bluegill, carp, catfish, crappie, and trout.

The Oat Hills are a low mountain range in San Diego County, California.The Oat Hills are to the west of the Laguna Mountains.

Escondido High School (EHS) is one of three high schools in the Escondido Union High School District located in Escondido, California. Escondido High received a California Distinguished School award in 2007.

Valley High School is an alternative, continuation high school, part of the Escondido Union High School District in Escondido, California. VHS has nearly thirty to fifty new students every month.

Escondido Village at Valley and Ash in Escondido, California, was the first enclosed, and first fully air-conditioned shopping mall in California, opening on March 9, 1964, costing $10 million to build. It was advertised as a shopping center with an "enclosed sidewalk" or "an air-conditioned sidewalk and mall", as the term "mall" was not yet synonymous with an enclosed shopping center, but rather its original meaning of a long, planted or green space. Walker Scott, the San Diego–based department store chain was an anchor, as was Mayfair Markets, TG&Y discount stores joining later. At launch, the center was 1,200-foot (370 m) long on a single-axis mall, had 200,000 square feet (19,000 m2) of gross leasable area, 40 stores, and 30 acres (120,000 m2) of parking for 1,250 cars. Sears joined later as the second department store anchor with 120,000 sq ft (11,000 m2)

Escondido Adventist Academy (EAA) is a private, Seventh-day Adventist-governed Christian school in Escondido, California, serving students in grades K-12. It is operated by a school board which represents the 14 Seventh-day Adventist churches in San Diego North County. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system. Escondido Adventist Academy is a part of the Southeastern California Conference of the SDA School System. The school began under the name "Escondido Junior Academy". It moved to West 9th Avenue in Escondido in September of 1956, where it operated grades 1–8. Grade 9 was added in 1957 and grade 10 in 1958. Two new classrooms, a workshop and recreation area were added in 1959 (Times Advocate article, July 6, 1959). Then in 1982, it added Kindergarten and grades 11 and 12, a gymnasium and a two-story classroom building. It also changed its name to "Escondido Adventist Academy" to reflect its new senior academy status. In 2008, the school sold its 9th Avenue campus to a Mercedes Benz dealership and moved to a new facility on Deodar Road, as part of a joint campus with the Escondido Seventh-day Adventist Church. The school is accredited by the Board of Regents of the General Conference of SDAs and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).

California Pacific University (or Cal Pacific University) was a private university originally founded in Escondido, California. Its law school was originally located in Bakersfield, California. The university was aimed towards working professionals in business management. The school of law was accredited by the California State Bar Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California.

Palomar Medical Center Escondido is a hospital located in Escondido, California. It is operated by the Palomar Health District (formerly known as Palomar Pomerado Health), which also operates Palomar Medical Center Poway in nearby Poway. Palomar Medical Center Escondido is the only designated trauma center in northern San Diego County.The first hospital in Downtown Escondido opened in 1950 as Palomar Memorial Hospital. A tower addition, McLeod Tower, was completed in 1974. The hospital was renamed to Palomar Medical Center in 1987. It is now known as Palomar Medical Center Downtown Escondido, which houses psychiatric and rehabilitation wards. In late 2021 to early 2022, the old hospital campus was slowly demolished and will now be replaced by a mixed use/senior living/apartment complex. To safely take down the building, heavy asbestos abatement was performed by workers as the building was built in the ‘50s and contained asbestos insulation.

San Diego Radiosurgery is a cancer treatment facility in Escondido, California. The center is a service of Palomar Health. San Diego Radiosurgery uses a technology called Novalis Tx. Novalis Tx is a stereotactic radiosurgery platform that does not require anesthesia or incision for treatment of malignant and benign tumors. The center treats tumors in the lung, liver, brain, kidney, eye, prostate, and pancreas. In January 2010, San Diego Radiosurgery was one of the first facilities in the country to have respiratory gating technology. This technology protects tissues and organs around a tumor using targeted positioning and precise dosage.